Codify the former asylum bars and third-country transit rules

Attempted

Printed page 148 5. Department of Homeland Security

“Codify former asylum bars and third-country transit rules.”

What has happened

Dec 30, 2025 Attempted
DHS and DOJ confirmed that the December 2020 security bars rule would take effect on 2025-12-31, withdrawing later amendments that complicated its codification while "leaving unaltered the rule's substantive public health-related provisions". One of the two rules the Quote wants codified is back in force by regulation rather than by statute — an executive route around the ask, so `attempted`. No third-country transit rule has been proposed at all: Federal Register full-text search for "third-country transit" over the window returns zero documents.
- DHS/DOJ final rule: Security Bars and Processing; Confirmation of Effective Date; Partial Withdrawal
  Primary Executive branch Dec 30, 2025

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

A Requires-Congress ask that the executive answered halfway on its own — which under the leveling rules is an attempted event, not a partial one.