The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Thursday that it has taken approximately 2.2 million immigration enforcement actions since January 20, 2025, according to an official statement from the Department of Homeland Security that describes these measures as revocations or terminations of immigration status.
The statement, issued under the authority of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, clarifies that this figure is in addition to the revocations and denials of visas by the State Department and the deportations carried out by ICE.
DHS itself boasts that USCIS took nearly seven times more enforcement actions than during the last two years of the Biden administration combined.
“President Trump promised the American people that immigration laws would be enforced, and these figures reflect the magnitude of that commitment. Securing the border was only the beginning,” Mullin stated.
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The 2.2 million is not a uniform category. The statement outlines five types of actions: the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for beneficiaries from 13 countries—affecting approximately 1.04 million people; denials of applications for status change or extensions; issuance of Notices to Appear (NTA) to initiate deportation proceedings; elimination of automatic extensions of work permits; and termination of categorical parole programs, including the CHNV program that benefitted Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans.
The DHS does not specify how many actions correspond to each category or how many resulted in actual deportations: a NTA initiates a process but does not alone equate to an expulsion.
For Cubans with pending applications, the announcement comes at a time of accumulated pressure. The CHNV program ended in March 2025, although subsequent litigations created a constantly changing legal situation. The Cuban Family Reunification program concluded in December, although a federal order in January 2026 blocked the premature termination of the paroles that had already been granted.
Additionally, the Immigration Appeals Board has determined that the I-220A form does not equate to the parole required by the Cuban Adjustment Act, thus closing off that pathway to regularization for thousands of individuals.
Naturalization figures also reflect institutional change. National quarterly approvals plummeted from 241,326 to 57,697, a drop of 76%, while in the Miami office it decreased from 87% to 68%.
USCIS no operates solely as a processing agency anymore. Since September 2025, a federal regulation authorized special agents of the institution with the authority to carry firearms, execute arrest warrants, and present criminal cases. Arrests have been documented during biometric appointments and interviews, although ICE remains the primary agency for arrests.
The announcement of immigration control actions coincides with a federal lawsuit filed by civil rights organizations to stop the so-called “Unlawful Voter Initiative,” a program launched in August that reassigned hundreds of agents to investigate naturalized citizens as possible illegal voters, with Florida among the prioritized states. Approximately 691,000 registered voters of Cuban descent live in that state, and 66% of Cuban immigrants in the U.S. are naturalized citizens.
Experts recommend that Cubans with pending procedures attend any appointments accompanied by a lawyer, review their files, and avoid unauthorized agents.
This Thursday, a federal court convicted five Cubans for asylum fraud and human trafficking: the network charged between $1,500 and $40,000 per person, operating under the guise of an alleged immigration consultancy in Tampa.
The Republican congressman from Florida, Randy Fine, proposed days ago areview of all naturalizations since 1990, a proposal that does not constitute a formal bill but aligns with the offensive of the Department of Justice, which announced in early October lawsuits to revoke the citizenship of 40 naturalized individuals, including two Cubans.
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