DHS Withdraws Efforts to Rescind the International Entrepreneur Parole Program

On July 7, 2026, the Board of Immigration Appeals published its precedential decision in Matter of R-A-N-, 29 I. & N. Dec. 739 (B.I.A. 2026). The Board vacated a grant of asylum to a citizen of Russia who fled his country in October 2022, when Russia intensified its mobilization of men for the war against Ukraine.

On May 22, 2026, the Associated Press reported what immigration practitioners on the West Coast had already absorbed three weeks earlier: the San Francisco Immigration Court at 100 Montgomery Street had closed its doors for good on May 1, 2026, leaving the city without a primary immigration tribunal for the first time in modern memory.

White House Border Czar Tom Homan publicly acknowledged on May 20, 2026 that the pace of deportations under President Donald Trump’s second term has declined, attributing the slowdown to a combination of adverse federal court rulings, sanctuary city policies, a 75-day Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding lapse, and continuing political fallout from immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis.