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.
Washington D.C.
Biden launches citizenship program for immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens:
Keeping Families Together, a process for eligible undocumented spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens to apply for parole in place, will be open to an estimated 500,000 spouses and some 50,000 children under age 21 with a U.S.-citizen parent. — Reuters
Sen. Mark Kelly says when Trump is “done and gone,” Senate GOP will support immigration bill:
The Arizona Senator says he believes that once former President Donald Trump is “done and gone,” the Senate Republicans who abandoned the immigration bill that Trump denounced will support it. — CBS News
Vance defends unsubstantiated claims about immigration and crime:
Since the nation’s founding, nativist politicians like Sen. J.D. Vance have conflated immigration with crime — without evidence, historians and criminologists say. — The New York Times
New York
Immigrant children find belonging through basketball:
Facing their own immigrant struggles, a Colombian couple founded a basketball program where recently arrived immigrant children play and learn. — Epicenter NYC
Akhil Sharma on growing up in an Indian immigrant community:
Sharma’s story “The Narayans” is set in the Indian community in Edison, New Jersey, in the eighties and nineties, whether the author grew up after immigrating from India at age eight. — The New Yorker
Around the U.S.
Foreign farmworker misclassification spurs labor agency scrutiny:
Armed with new enforcement tools, investigators at the U.S. Labor Department say they’re focusing on worker misclassification in the H-2A temporary visa program for seasonal farmworkers. — Bloomberg Law
GOP Senate nominee pushes stricter rules for immigrants:
Colombian-born Bernie Moreno, Ohio’s GOP Senate nominee, wants legal immigrants like himself to learn English and block them from government benefits for their first 10 years in the U.S. — Axios
U.S. citizens overwhelmingly convicted for smuggling fentanyl:
In 2022, U.S. citizens made up 89% of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers — 12 times greater than convictions of immigrants crossing the border for the same offense. — Global Refuge
