Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

5. Department of Homeland Security · Notable

Rescind all memoranda limiting immigration enforcement

Partially done

Printed page 152 5. Department of Homeland Security

“Rescind all memoranda limiting enforcement of immigration laws including those identifying sensitive zones.”

What has happened

  1. Partially done

    The sweep began the same week. Acting Secretary Huffman's directive of 2025-01-20 rescinded the guidelines limiting ICE and CBP enforcement in or near "sensitive" areas - the memoranda the Quote names explicitly - and DHS announced it the next day in the Mandate's own terms: "Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America's schools and churches to avoid arrest." A second directive ended the broad use of humanitarian parole. Directive plus documented implementing action, so `partial`; `done` would need an allowlisted statement that the review of *all* enforcement-limiting memoranda is complete, and DHS has published none.

  2. Attempted

    EO 14159 section 3(a) revokes Executive Orders 13993, 14010, 14011 and 14012, and section 3(b) orders every agency to "take all appropriate action to promptly revoke all memoranda, guidance, or other policies based on" them. Section 16 separately orders State, DOJ and DHS to rescind "the policy decisions of the previous administration that led to the increased or continued presence of illegal aliens". A government-wide sweep directive, with nothing yet rescinded.

Research log

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

Research notes

An open-ended “all X” ask, leveled under our rule for such asks: government-wide directive is attempted, directive plus at least one documented implementing action is partial, done needs the sweep declared complete.

The Quote’s named example - the sensitive-zones memoranda - is gone. That specific rescission is #315 (p. 142), which is done because its Quote names only those memoranda. This item asks for all memoranda limiting enforcement and cannot be done on the same evidence.

Action
rescind
Object
memoranda limiting immigration enforcement
ID
377