Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here.
New York
ICE detentions in New York county jails have exploded:
So far this year, the state’s county jails have held six times more people for federal immigration authorities than they did in all of 2024. –New York Focus
Arthur Sze is appointed U.S. poet laureate as the Library of Congress faces challenges:
Sze is a New York City native and son of Chinese immigrants who explores themes of cultural and environmental diversity, and what he calls “coexisting.” —The Associated Press
Cold welcome for Russian activists seeking safety in New York:
Asylum seekers asking for refuge from Putin’s crackdowns have been detained and fast-tracked for deportation. –THE CITY
Fearful NY migrants are skipping doctors’ visits and food help, advocates say:
Representatives of local community aid organizations testified at a City Council hearing that immigrants are forgoing doctors’ appointments, failing to report domestic violence and doing without public benefits out of fear of immigration enforcement. –Gothamist
NY Dems propose letting citizens sue ICE following Kavanaugh 4th Amendment opinion:
After a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Democratic legislators want to pass state laws to let New Yorkers sue government officials who violate their constitutional rights. –Nexstar
Inside the chaotic arrests at New York’s immigration court
Around the U.S.
60 violations in 50 days: Inside ICE’s giant tent facility at Fort Bliss:
ICE’s inspectors say the marquee Texas project is violating dozens of federal standards for immigrant detention. –The Washington Post
‘The whole thing is screwed up’: Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers:
They’re pushing lawmakers to move faster on a farm labor solution, even as the president cracks down on immigration. –Politico
In a Chicago neighborhood, fear and anger over Trump’s ICE ‘blitz’:
Pilsen, a part of the city long home to Chicagoans of Mexican heritage, has grown quieter since the Trump administration announced an operation against illegal immigration. –The New York Times
DPS arresting thousands of undocumented immigrants across Texas to aid Trump’s mass deportation:
The Texas Department of Public Safety has shifted from Biden-era border enforcement to helping expel people from the country, a job once exclusively done by federal authorities. –The Texas Tribune
Uncertainty with temporary immigration statuses causing instability for Minnesota immigrants:
The federal government’s shifting stances on humanitarian parole and TPS are affecting Minnesotans. –MPR News
Washington D.C.
Trump threatens to retake control of D.C. police if it doesn’t cooperate with ICE:
Trump’s previous emergency takeover of the city police department expired, but he threatened overnight Monday to once again seize control. –Axios; The Guardian
US military again targeted a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela, Trump says:
The military blew up another Venezuelan boat without congressional authorization, killing three aboard and hinting that the military targeting of cartels could be further expanded. –The Associated Press;
Many ICE agents lose ability to spy on immigrants’ payments to family back home:
After an investigation into how immigration agents surveil wire transfers, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes cut off some of the agents’ surveillance access. –The Intercept
Senate Democrats raise concerns over Pentagon plan to use military lawyers as immigration judges:
Some fear that the plan to allow military lawyers to work as temporary immigration judges will violate a ban on using service members for law enforcement and affect the military justice system.–The Associated Press
Trump’s deportations divert FBI agents off child predator cases:
Officials warn that President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is leaving domestic terrorists, including online extremists who prey on children, unpoliced. –MSNBC