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President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order this week for federal agents to take control of several cities under Democratic leadership, including New York.

“There’s no law,” Las Vegas visitor Genevieve Peters proclaims in the middle of the Wynn Las Vegas casino as she records video of security guards attempting to usher the woman and her friends out of the property for not wearing masks. “It’s illegal and it’s unconstitutional. But yet we are getting walked out by staff.”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials backed away from a controversial rule that would have blocked international students from staying in the U.S. if their colleges went online-only amid the pandemic, telling a federal judge Tuesday that it would “return to the status quo.”

In the middle of June—when coronavirus cases were rising and it was clear that the United States was deporting COVID-19-positive asylum seekers—the Trump administration released a proposed rule that, if implemented, would devastate the entire asylum system.

On July 6, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement announced stunning new guidelines for colleges and universities preparing to return to classes in the fall during the pandemic. ICE said that international students whose universities go all-online in the fall would not be able to remain in the United States.

Jack Miralrio and his younger brother, Owen, were born in Mexico and brought to the United States illegally by their mother when they were little. Growing up, both enjoyed video games, soccer and building toy cars. Both excelled at school.

For more than three months, Astrid Silva has grudgingly carried out a new routine: Waking up at 5:30 a.m. to check if she can still legally work and live in the only home she’s known since childhood.

After Gustavo Alzate, a 34-year-old property manager for a New York real estate firm, was arrested by federal agents, they brought him to a New Jersey jail to await his immigration court hearing. He used a jailhouse hotline to call into the court every day to try and figure out when his hearing would be. “For a long time, I was told there was no record of my case or me with the court,” he later said in court papers. “No one ever told me when my notice to appear form was filed with the court.”