Trump Appoints Himself Chair of America’s 250th Birthday Task Force While Expanding Immigration Enforcement

Shortly after taking office for the second time, Donald Trump created the White House Task Force on Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday and named himself chair. ” The Semiquincentennial celebrations begin in June 2026. Musical performers largely pulled out of a planned concert.

D.C. cage match will take place on the South Lawn. Stephen Miller, Trump’s top domestic-policy adviser, has directed the Administration’s immigration measures.

Between June and December 2025, Trump issued bans on travel from 39 countries, including Afghanistan, Haiti, Nigeria, and Iran. U.S. government suspended virtually all immigration applications filed by people from those countries.

In January 2026, a State Department press release listed 75 countries subject to a similar suspension. Some two dozen countries appear on both lists. Immigrants from the countries on the 75-country list received 46 per cent of all visas issued in 2024.

On Friday, a federal judge blocked the suspension of applications by immigrants from the 39 countries in the travel ban. The Republican-controlled Senate authorized another 70 billion dollars for immigration enforcement. U.S. with temporary status to leave the country and submit paperwork from an American consulate abroad.

U.S. Memo was prepared last fall. The agency backtracked after business groups warned of effects on employment. 36 million green cards issued in 2024, 58 per cent went to people already in the United States.

U.S. created the Tactical Operations Division. Some 80 officials in the division are tasked with investigating citizens, green-card holders, and refugees on grounds that their status might have been granted through fraud or in error.

U.S. have already been identified for investigation. U.S. has been instructed to refer 100 to 200 cases per month to prosecutors for potential denaturalization.

U.S. averaged 11 denaturalizations a year between 1990 and 2017. ” The Immigration Act of 1924 established racial quotas that restricted immigration from southern and eastern Europe and blocked it altogether from Asia.