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.
Texas reins in border spending and shifts focus to deportations:
With border crossings at record lows, state authorities are being sent to arrest people accused of committing crimes in Texas after entering the country illegally. –The Texas Tribune
California senators demand Trump immigration officials stop using Medicaid data:
The data transfer posed ethical issues and “significant concerns about possible violations of federal” privacy laws, California’s senators wrote in a letter to Trump officials. –Associated Press
ICE raids and their uncertainty scare off workers and baffle businesses:
Farmers, cattle ranchers and hotel and restaurant managers felt relief last week when Trump paused immigration raids disrupting their industries, but that respite didn’t last. –Associated Press
A Cincinnati teen with no criminal background was deported by ICE:
Emerson Colindres’ coach says his case is an example of how those getting taken by ICE “are your friends and neighbors … and then one day they’re just gone.” –NBC News
Oregon farm group says rising immigration enforcement is disruptive to agriculture:
“If we don’t have workers, we don’t get people fed,” a spokesperson for the Oregon Farm Bureau said. –Oregon Public Broadcasting
From San Diego to the Bay Area, California restaurants are on edge over immigration raids:
The disruptions come at a difficult time for California’s restaurant industry, which is already grappling with soaring costs. –CalMatters
Washington D.C.
As Trump pledges mass deportation, he’s creating more undocumented people:
More than 1 million people who were granted legal entry to the country under different programs are now considered to be here illegally by the Trump administration. –NBC News
At least 5 elected officials have been arrested or confronted by police while protesting Trump’s immigration policies:
Brad Lander isn’t the only elected official to be detained or forcibly removed from immigration-related proceedings. –CNN
The immigrants caring for the nation’s elderly are losing their jobs:
Foreign-born workers make up 30% of the nursing home housekeeping and maintenance workforce, data shows. –Axios
Military aiding immigration enforcement in Florida, Louisiana and Texas:
Another 700 military personnel have been sent to aid immigration enforcement in Florida, Louisiana and Texas. –Axios
This is what it’s like to be an immigration attorney right now:
An L.A.-based attorney for Al Otro Lado, an organization providing legal and humanitarian support for migrants in California, discusses what it’s like to defend children who came to the U.S. without a parent. –CNN
New York
NY Congress members say they were denied oversight visit at field office:
Democratic Reps. Dan Goldman and Jerry Nadler said they observed two court proceedings at 26 Federal Plaza, where Lander was arrested Tuesday, but were denied access to an ICE field office inside the building. –CBS News
Brad Lander tried to escort immigrants facing arrest. He’s not alone.
A growing army of volunteers has started showing up immigration courts during a month-old campaign to detain people showing up for routine hearings. –The New York Times
Lander says Trump is looking to “stoke conflict, weaponize fear:”
The New York City comptroller is continuing to speak out after both he and an immigrant he was trying to defend were arrested by ICE — though only Lander was released later that day. –The Guardian
New York gears up for fight to count 1.8 million noncitizens in census:
City leaders foresee threats from the Trump administration and Republican officials that could lead to undercounting immigrants and minority groups. –The New York Times
NYC cab drivers fear death of industry as Waymo aims to launch driverless taxis:
A decade after Uber upended New York’s yellow taxi industry, another Silicon Valley giant is threatening to push the city’s cabbies to the brink of extinction. –Gothamist
