In January, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed his staff to stop issuing passports with an X gender marker, which had been available since 2022, and said the State Department would no longer allow passport holders to change their gender marker. Existing passports would remain valid, but new or renewed passports would not reflect the holder's gender identity. The policy was in keeping with Trump's executive order saying the federal government would recognize only male and female sexes as assigned at birth.
A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump blocked his administration from deporting Guatemalan children after an attempted late-night operation to place dozens on flights out of the United States. Judge Timothy J. Kelly issued a preliminary injunction halting the plan, which federal officials had described as a reunification effort. But Kelly ruled that the defence crumbled like a house of cards once examined.