Executive Orders Resource List

Topics: Advocacy, Climate Change, Environment, Immigration, Justice, Racial Justice Format: Explainer, Toolkit Language: English

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January 2025

Justice and Advocacy Ministries empowers Disciples to use our voices and our actions to promote greater justice and mercy in the world. Disciples Home Missions seeks to bring a coordinated approach to influencing the church’s work for justice with a focus on three key areas:

Refugee and Immigration Ministries
Racial Justice
Environmental Justice

Following his inauguration on Monday January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed executive orders that do real damage in each of those three key focus areas.

Seeking to be a source of trusted information/resources for local congregations, Regions, and ministries Justice & Advocacy Ministries offers the following curated list of the articles, explainers, and videos about the executive orders.

Explainers and Fact Sheets

Summary: Immigration Executive Actions
A Google Drive Folder containing PDF’s of the Trump Immigration Executive Orders

Summary: Executive Orders on Energy and Environment: A Quick Summary
The Climate Law Blog from the Sabin Center at Columbia University offers a short summary of each EO on the environment along with direct links to the text of each one.

Summary: Executive Orders Targeting Diversity Equity and Inclusion
This LawFlash Post from Morgan Lewis offers a brief summary of two Executive Orders and includes direct links to each one.

DHM: Let’s Talk About Terminology and the U.S. Immigration System
In this video Attorney Jonelle Ocloo (Disciples Immigration Legal Counsel) defines key phrases in the US Immigration system such as “refugee” and “asylee” and “immigrant.”

Immigration Hub: Immigration Messaging Center
Quick Takes on each Executive Order, Topline Take-Aways, Links to Resources

NYT: Trump Admin Ordered Federal Diversity Efforts to Shut Down by Wednesday Night

EarthWorks: What Do Trump’s Executive Orders Mean for Climate and Communities?

NBC5 Chicago: What is a DEI Program and What did Trump Change?

NPR: Trump is Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement (again)

Immigration Updates and Analysis

CNN: Judge blocks Trump’s ‘blatantly unconstitutional’ executive order that aims to end birthright citizenship

NYT: Justice Department Orders Investigations of Any Officials Who Refuse to Enforce Trump’s Immigration Policies

Immigration Hub: Trump’s Immigration Executive Orders – Mass Deportations, Making Children Second Class Citizens and Ending Asylum

Interfaith Immigration Coalition: Faith Communities Across Traditions Tell the Trump Administration to Follow God’s Directives to Welcome Immigrants

Sojourners: What Will We Risk to Defy Unjust Immigration Orders?

Human Rights First: Analysis of Trump’s Initial Immigration Executive Actions
Trump Executive Orders undermine our national security, tarnish our global reputation, and eliminate crucial protections and safe pathways for those fleeing persecution.

National Immigration Law Center: Analysis of Trump Day 1 Executive Orders
The second Trump administration began with a slew of executive orders designed to terrify and devastate immigrants, their families, and communities across the U.S.