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.
Elon Musk’s DOGE gained access to sensitive data of migrant children, including reports of abuse:
Former Health and Human Services Department officials question why a DOGE engineer had access to the Unaccompanied Alien Children portal. –The Guardian
Immigration crackdowns disrupt caregivers, and families are paying the price:
The Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies threaten to cut a key source of labor for nursing facilities and home health agencies that rely on foreign-born workers. –NBC News
Government immigration scorecard for deportations relied on tattoos and social posts, court filings show:
Government records obtained by the ACLU show immigration authorities used a point system that families and attorneys say unfairly targeted Venezuelan deportees. –NBC News
Joe Rogan and other voices on the right raise alarm over Trump’s immigration moves:
Conservatives’ unified front in favor of President Trump’s immigration purge is beginning to crack. –The New York Times
How immigration policy shifts are affecting Latino families:
Ongoing mental health stress arising from policy shifts has significant consequences for Latino families, and particularly for children. –The Brookings Institution
As many as four in five immigrants at risk of deportation from U.S. are Christian, report finds:
A new report calls on Christians to consider the impact of the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation policies. –Associated Press
Legal scholar sees immigrant arrests as a “struggle for the soul of the country”:
“What kind of a country are we?” asks Boston College law professor Daniel Kanstroom, founder of the school’s Immigration and Asylum Clinic. –NPR
Around the U.S.
The feds are increasingly relying on Vermont’s prisons for immigration detention:
People detained in Vermont’s prisons by ICE and CBP struggle to call their families and have been exposed to physical violence. –VTDigger
Venezuelan man in Illinois arrested by ICE to be freed temporarily to donate kidney to brother:
Jose Gregorio Gonzalez has been detained in Indiana since his arrest on March 3, but is set to be released Friday for the operation. –WBEZ Chicago
“If I go back, I am dead”:
Three Haitians in Dayton, Ohio, fear immigration changes could lead to their deportation, and that they’d be targeted by gangs in their home country. –Dayton Daily News
Evangelical group strives to change its own narrative around immigration:
Women of Welcome is a nonprofit migrant aid group made up of evangelical women from across the U.S. who are attempting to help asylum seekers, something they say is a religious calling. –CBS News
New York
Federal judge drops corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams:
The controversial request from the U.S. Justice Department that was granted had generated public outcry and spurred the largest mass resignation of senior federal prosecutors in decades. –Associated Press
- The case was dismissed “with prejudice,” which means the DOJ cannot refile the charges against Adams based on the same evidence. –BBC
Hochul attacks ICE over ‘cruel’ detention of three children and their mother:
Advocacy groups said the family was detained by ICE at a Sackets Harbor dairy farm last month and then taken to a detention facility in Texas 1,800 miles away. –NBC News
Immigrant advocates demand local jails stop working with ICE:
They continue to push for the Dignity Not Detention Act, which would ban New York jails and prisons from contracting with ICE. –City & State New York
A Harlem activist who appeared for a routine ICE check-in now faces deportation:
Robert Panton, a formerly incarcerated community activist in Harlem, went in for a routine check-in with ICE last month and hasn’t been home since. –Gothamist
Civil rights investigations of NYC schools in limbo after federal education cuts:
High-profile investigations into New York City’s dysfunctional school bus system, segregation in traditional public schools and charter school admissions practices are now stuck in limbo. –Gothamist
