Executive Orders and Action Updates

Every week, NNAAC tracks federal executive actions that shape the lives of Arab Americans and produces a digest to support advocacy, civic engagement, and organizational response. To get these timely updates, insights, and analysis straight to your inbox, sign up to join our mailing list.
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Executive Order Update: September 26, 2025

This week’s federal policy round-up includes major shifts in immigration, civil liberties, voting rights, public health, and immigration—each with serious implications for our communities. Deportation Over Relief: Policies Strip Protections from Immigrant Communities The Trump administration announced it will end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 6,000 Syrians, with another

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Executive Order Update: September 19, 2025

This week’s federal policy round-up tracks federal policy developments impacting immigrant rights, voting access, health care, and free speech. Immigrant Rights Under Threat: Court Rulings and Deportation Orders Raise Alarm Federal immigration policy is shifting rapidly, with new rulings threatening protections and targeting advocates. A federal appeals court has allowed

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Executive Order Update: September 12, 2025

This week’s federal policy round-up tracks federal policy developments impacting our communities—from children’s health and worker protections to immigration rights and foreign aid.  From Justice to Injustice: SCOTUS Permits Race-Based ICE Stops  In a 6–3 party-line vote, the Supreme Court has allowed ICE to resume racially biased immigration enforcement in

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Executive Order Update: September 5, 2025

This week’s developments show how federal courts, state governments, and executive agencies are pulling in different directions on immigration, public health, and the limits of presidential power. From the State Department’s new visa restrictions on Palestinians to a federal court restoring Harvard’s research funding, the policy landscape is shifting quickly

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Executive Order Update: August 29th, 2025

This week’s policy round-up tracks escalating federal actions that undermine equity, access, and civil rights—from restricting COVID vaccine eligibility and destabilizing public health leadership, to cutting reproductive care and reshaping education and immigration systems in ways that harm vulnerable communities.  Public Trust Undermined: Health & Human Rights  Just weeks after

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Executive Order Update: August 22nd, 2025

This week’s policy round-up tracks sweeping federal actions that threaten equity, access, and civil rights—from redefining citizenship through surveillance and ideological screening, to blocking healthcare and education for immigrant communities, and undermining public service workers.  Citizenship Crackdown: Surveillance, Suppression, and Social Control Under a new USCIS memo, citizenship applicants must

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