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.
Around the U.S.
Trump vows to deport millions. Builders say it would drain their crews and drive up home costs:
While some contractors dismiss the plan as political rhetoric, many say they can’t afford to lose more people from an aging, immigrant-dependent workforce still short of nearly 400,000 people. — NBC News
A third of Americans agree with Trump’s racist remark about immigrants:
A survey found a third of Americans agree with Trump’s assessment that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” — Axios
Debunking the myth of immigrants and crime:
The American Immigration Council compared crime data to demographic data between 1980 and 2022, and it showered that as immigrants’ share of the population grew, crime rates declined. — American Immigration Council
Rhetoric versus reality — Addressing common misconceptions about immigration:
The spread of disinformation about immigrants both fosters anti-immigrant sentiment and makes it hard to find common ground on changing the country’s immigration system. — Arizona Mirror
New York
As city sees uptick in unaccompanied immigrant youth, lawmakers probe ‘gaps in services’:
New York City received 2,873 unaccompanied children to sponsoring families between Oct 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024, but many others needed to be placed in federal care. — CityLimits
Washington D.C.
Trump’s claims that blame migrants are largely false or misleading:
The Trump campaign has consistently pointed to unauthorized immigration as the cause of a series of problems it says plagues the country. That is rarely actually the case. — The New York Times
Trump thinks the border got him elected in 2016. He’s convinced it will do so again:
And Trump has a new reason for focusing on the issue: he has told rally audiences and people close to him that his opposition to illegal immigration saved his life. — The New York Times
Trump is promising deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. What is it?
Congress, with the support of President John Adams, passed the Alien Enemies Act as part of the four Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 as the U.S. stood on the brink of war with France. — NPR
