Due Process and Procedural Crisis (Asylum, USCIS, Courts)
Key Questions
What funding challenges face ICE and CBP?
Senate GOP risks missing reconciliation deadlines for $9.5B in CBP and $7.5B in ICE funding, with a new $70B bill currently deadlocked.
What is Acting Director Mullin's approach to enforcement?
Mullin has focused on deportations and threats to pull CBP from sanctuary airports while maintaining a lower public profile in his first two months.
Will ICE maintain a presence at the 2026 World Cup?
ICE presence at World Cup events in New York and New Jersey has been confirmed alongside pre-screening efforts by CBP in San Diego.
USCIS can now skip asylum interviews entirely (effective Aug 21), affecting 444,000 pending applicants; HIAS and other groups file lawsuit. Mega master hearings pack 100-200 cases per session, 183% spike in in absentia removals. Military JAG officers appointed as immigration judges. HHS contract for unaccompanied child legal representation expired. BIA overturns Matter of Arrabally, ending advance parole for DACA. USCIS Policy Alert PA-2026-05 expands denial authority without RFE/NOID, effective Aug 5, shortening response deadlines. New lawsuit challenges asylum interview skip rule.