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Timeline

2017.01.29Department Of Homeland Security official statement that they will continue to enforce Trump's executive order. dhs.gov (See also First 100 Days, Muslim Immigration Ban, Assaults on Government)
2017.01.31Dozens of lawsuits were filed against immigration order. clearinghouse.net (See also Lawsuits, Muslim Immigration Ban, John Kelley, Immigrants, First 100 Days, Department of Justice, John Kelly)
2017.02.07Homeland Security Chief John Kelly admits Muslim Immigration Ban was rushed nytimes.com (See also First 100 Days, John Kelly, Muslim Immigration Ban, Immigration)
2017.02.07Homeland Security secretary says a border wall won't be built all at once. latimes.com (See also Mexico Wall, First 100 Days)
2017.02.08DHS watchdog suggests customs officials may have violated court order at Dulles. politico.com (See also First 100 Days, Constitutional Issues, Muslim Immigration Ban, Immigration, Muslims)
The day after it went into effect, a federal judge said customs officials at Dulles had to provide detained travelers access to lawyers.
2017.02.10Trump’s “wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border would be a series of fences and walls that would cost as much as $21.6 billion, and take more than three years to construct according to Homeland Security internal report. in.reuters.com (See also First 100 Days, Mexico Wall)
2017.02.13Homeland Security chief Kelly responds after immigration raids spark outrage abcnews.go.com (See also Immigrants, Immigration, John Kelly)
2017.02.17In an unusual move Betsy DeVos opts to be guarded by U.S. Marshals Service instead of a team of civil servants. washingtonpost.com (See also Betsy DeVos)
2017.02.18A new version of Trump's immigration ban that could be issued as early as Tuesday will not stop green card holders, nor travelers in transit, according to Secretary for Homeland Security John Kelly. reuters.com (See also John Kelly, Muslim Immigration Ban)
2017.02.18The White House distances itself from a Department of Homeland Security draft proposal to use the National Guard to round up unauthorized immigrants. apnews.com (See also Immigrants)
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)
2017.02.22Trump's DHS Secretary, John Kelly, lays out aggressive guidance for vigorously pursuing illegal immigrants. cnn.com (See also Nationalism, Immigrants, Fascism, 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)