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| 2017 || December 6 || Leadership change || U.S. Department of Homeland Security || {{w|Kirstjen Nielsen}} assumes the office of Secretary of Homeland Security, replacing acting Secretary {{w|Elaine Duke}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/12/06/kirstjen-m-nielsen-sworn-sixth-homeland-security-secretary|title=Kirstjen M. Nielsen Sworn-in as the Sixth Homeland Security Secretary|date=December 6, 2017|website=Department of Homeland Security |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171206174245/https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/12/06/kirstjen-m-nielsen-sworn-sixth-homeland-security-secretary |archivedate=December 6, 2017|deadurl=no|access-date=December 6, 2017}}</ref><ref name="NYT Confirmation">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/us/politics/kirstjen-nielsen-confirmed-homeland-security-secretary.html|title=Kirstjen Nielsen, White House Aide, Is Confirmed as Homeland Security Secretary|last=Nixon|first=Ron|date=December 5, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 5, 2017 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205231406/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/us/politics/kirstjen-nielsen-confirmed-homeland-security-secretary.html |archivedate=December 5, 2017|deadurl=no|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> According to CNN, the hiring of Nielsen is based on a strong positive recommendation from White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly.<ref name=cnn-nielsen-departure/>
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| 2017{{snd}}2020 || || Quota change || U.S. Department of State || Refugee admissions || Under President {{w|Donald Trump}}, the United States' refugee program is significantly pared back. {{w|Executive Order 13769}} (January 27, 2017) puts a temporary moratorium on all refugee admissions. Refugee admissions are resumed in late October 2017, but refugees are not allowed from 11 countries, and other restrictions are added, causing a drop in the number of refugees. The administration further cuts the refugee quota in 2018 and 2019, and refugeee admissions are effectively halted in 2020 because Trump does not set a quota. Learn more at {{w|Immigration policy of Donald Trump#Travel ban and refugee suspension}} and {{w|Asylum in the United States}}.
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| 2019 || April 7 || Leadership change || U.S. Department of Homeland Security || || {{w|Kirstjen Nielsen}} resigns as Secretary of Homeland Security, with April 10 being her last day. Commentators attribute her resignation to Trump's desire to push harder on immigration enforcement, and his dissatisfaction with what Nielsen accomplished on that front, as well as her pushback against some of his demands. Trump's political advisor Stephen Miller is believed by commentators to be a key opponent of Nielsen in the White House.<ref name=cnn-nielsen-departure>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/politics/kirstjen-nielsen-last-days-dhs/index.html|title=How border hardliners nudged out Nielsen|last=Alvarez|first=Priscilla|last2=Sands|first2=Geneva|date=April 8, 2019|publisher=CNN|access-date=2019-04-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kirstjen-nielsen-resigning-dhs-secretary-expected-to-offer-resignation-today-live-updates-2019-04-07/ |title=DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigns after clashes with Trump on immigration |date=April 7, 2019 |publisher=CBS News |access-date=April 8, 2019 |language=en-US}}</ref> {{w|Kevin McAleenan}}, then the Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, becomes the next Secretary of Homeland Security; {{w|Claire Grady}}, who would have otherwise been the person to assume the role, is forced by Donald Trump to resign at the same time as Nielsen so that McAleenan can take the role.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://politi.co/2OXDVkD|title=Legality of Trump move to replace Nielsen questioned|last=Gerstein|first=Josh|last2=Beasley|first2=Stephanie|website=POLITICO|language=en|access-date=2019-08-03}}</ref> According to CNN, McAleenan is "a career official who served in the Obama administration and whom a senior DHS official says is "not an ideologue or fire breather" on immigration."<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/07/politics/kevin-mcaleenan-acting-secretary-homeland-security/index.html|title = Incoming acting secretary of Homeland Security 'not an ideologue or fire breather'|last = Sullivan|first = Kate|last2 = Sands|first2 = Geneva|last3 = Acosta|first3 = Jim|date = Aprili 8, 2019|accessdate = July 5, 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || June 10 || Leadership change || USCIS || || {{w|Ken Cuccinelli}} succeeds {{w|Lee Cissna}} as USCIS Director. A Republican politician and lawyer, Cuccinelli had taken hardline positions on immigration-related matters in past jobs. In April 2019, while reporting on the resignation of DHS Secretary {{w|Kirstjen Nilsen}}, ''Politico'' had reported that {{w|Stephen Miller (political advisor)}} had been pressuring Trump to get rid of Cissna.ref name=Kumar>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/07/stephen-miller-trump-immigration-1260431 |last=Kumar |first=Anita |title=Stephen Miller pressuring Trump officials amid immigration shakeups |date=April 7, 2019 |website=[[Politico]]}}</ref> Coverage in the ''New York Times'' of the public charge rule released by USCIS in August 2019 suggests that this replacement helped the Trump administration move forward faster with the public charge rule than they would have bee able to with Cissna.<ref name=nyt-public-charge/>
