On April 29, 2025, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a statement, First 100 Days: Delivering on Making America Safe Again. The statement touted the agency’s record on “aggressively working to ensure America’s national security by addressing vulnerabilities in immigration policies, reducing exploitation of humanitarian parole programs, and assisting enforcement agencies in identifying and removing illegal aliens.” The statement warns “[a]liens, immigration attorneys and non-government organizations” to “take note: the days of exploiting our immigration system are over. Aliens who want to live and work in America need to do it legally or get out.”
Among other things, the achievements USCIS praised include implementing alien registration and tracking; deploying “volunteers” to support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) enforcement and removal operations (USCIS has about “450 volunteers detailed to ICE supporting 85 facilities across the country”); making various arrests and detentions; anti-fraud efforts; ending the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan parole program; rescinding the extensions of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Venezuelans; adopting social media vetting for “anti-Americanism”; recognizing only two sexes; eliminating a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for green card applicants; and ending coordination on naturalization ceremonies with “sanctuary” cities.
