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Timeline

2017.02.13Homeland Security chief Kelly responds after immigration raids spark outrage abcnews.go.com (See also Immigrants, Immigration, John Kelly)
2017.02.20Department of Homeland Security confirms Trump Administration plans to deport illegal immigrants to Mexico even if the illegal immigrants aren't from Mexico. propublica.org (See also First 100 Days, John Kelly, Immigration)
2017.02.24A three-page DHS report casts doubt on need for Trump travel ban, saying citizenship is an “unreliable” threat indicator, and people from the banned countries have rarely been implicated in U.S.-based terrorism. washingtonpost.com (See also First 100 Days, Muslim Immigration Ban)
2017.02.24Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly says he doesn't believe it's possible to accomplish Trump's plans to hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents and 10,000 more Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to enforce executive orders on immigration in the next couple of years. npr.org (See also First 100 Days, Immigration, John Kelly)
2017.02.24Mexican Interior Secretary does not mince words when speaking alongside Rex Tillerson and John Kelly in Mexico City Thursday, saying: "We do not agree on the different measures that recently were stated by the government of the United States (that) affect Mexico." cnn.com (See also First 100 Days, Rex Tillerson, John Kelly, Department of State, Mexico)
2017.02.25Analysts at the Homeland Security Department's intelligence arm conclude that citizenship is an "unlikely indicator" of terrorism threats to the United States and that few people from the countries Trump listed in his travel ban have carried out attacks or been involved in terrorism-related activities in the U.S. since Syria's civil war started in 2011. apnews.com (See also First 100 Days, Muslim Immigration Ban)
2017.03.03The Department of Homeland Security concludes that Trump's Muslim ban will actually create more terrorism. thinkprogress.org (See also Travel Ban, Muslim Ban, First 100 Days)
2017.04.06Twitter files lawsuit after the The Department of Homeland Security demands they reveal the identity of several Twitter accounts posting information critical of Trump. variety.com (See also Fascism, First 100 Days, John Kelly, Assaults on Civil Liberties)
2017.06.21A Department of Homeland Security official testified that people connected to the Russian government tried to hack election-related computer systems in 21 states. washingtonpost.com (See also Russia, Russian Meddling in Election)
2017.07.10The Department of Homeland Security has delayed the effective date of the International Entrepreneur Rule, and has signaled its intent to eliminate the rule completely. axios.com (See also Muslim Immigration Ban, Immigration)
The rule would have allowed foreign entrepreneurs to come to the U.S. to start companies.
2017.07.11Trump is aggressively scaling back government regulations out of public view and often by political appointees with deep industry ties and potential conflicts. propublica.org (See also Conflicts of Interest, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Education, Corruption)
2017.07.28Trump ousted White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and replaced him with Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, after only 6 months. washingtonpost.com (See also Reince Priebus, John Kelly, Trump Cabinet)
2017.07.31Trump formally installed John F. Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, as his White House chief of staff. washingtonpost.com (See also John Kelly, Trump Cabinet, Reince Priebus)
2017.08.15Weeks before a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, led to three deaths and 19 injuries, the Trump administration revoked a grant to Life After Hate, a group that works to de-radicalize neo-Nazis. huffingtonpost.com (See also Racism, Anti-Semitism, Muslims)
2017.08.16The Trump administration formally terminated an Obama-era program that granted Central American minors temporary legal residence in the United States, shutting the door on 2,714 people who had already won conditional approval to enter the country. washingtonpost.com (See also Immigration)
2017.08.25More than one-quarter of a panel tasked with advising the Homeland Security Department on cybersecurity and infrastructure protection resigned en masse, citing Trump’s “insufficient attention” to the nation’s cyber vulnerabilities, his response to racist violence in Charlottesville, withdrawing from the Paris Accord, among other complaints. defenseone.com (See also Racism, Nationalism, Environment, John Kelly)
2017.09.05According to the Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers may use the information that DACA recipients gave the government as a means of gaining temporary protection to, instead, find and deport them. thedailybeast.com (See also Immigration)
2017.09.05The Trump administration announced Tuesday it would begin to unwind an Obama-era program known as DACA that allows younger undocumented immigrants to live in the country without fear of deportation, calling the program unconstitutional. washingtonpost.com (See also Immigration, Jeff Sessions, Racism, Department of Justice)
2017.09.12The Trump administration is considering reducing the number of refugees admitted to the country over the next year to below 50,000, the lowest number since at least 1980. nytimes.com (See also Immigration, Supreme Court)
2017.09.25The Department of Homeland Security is planning to collect social media information on all immigrants, including permanent residents and naturalized citizens, a move that has alarmed lawyers and privacy groups. buzzfeed.com (See also Fascism, Assaults on Civil Liberties, Nationalism)
2017.09.27The Trump administration will allow no more than 45,000 refugees into the United States next year, in what would be the lowest admissions level in more than a decade. apnews.com (See also Immigration, Foreign Policy)
2017.10.04Immigrant rights activists are working overtime to help protect some of the nearly 160,000 young undocumented people whose protected status is at risk because of the Trump administration mic.com (See also Immigration)
2017.10.04The Trump administration didn't notify immigrants about an abrupt deadline to renew DACA. vox.com (See also Immigration)
2017.10.05White House officials believe that chief of staff John Kelly’s personal cellphone was compromised, potentially as long ago as December, raising concerns that hackers or foreign governments may have had access to data on Kelly’s phone while he was secretary of Homeland Security and after he joined the West Wing. politico.com (See also Administration Errors, John Kelly)
2017.10.11The Department of Homeland Security is quietly exploring ways it could transform the US immigration system without Congress, including limiting protections for unaccompanied minors who come to the US illegally, expanding the use of speedy deportation proceedings, and tightening visa programs in ways that could limit legal immigration to the US. cnn.com (See also Immigration, Immigrants)