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.
Supreme Court lets Trump swiftly deport certain immigrants to ‘third countries’:
In a brief unsigned order, the court put on hold a federal judge’s ruling that such migrants should have a “meaningful opportunity” to bring claims that they would be at risk of torture, persecution or death. –NBC News
Florida asks Supreme Court to allow state to enforce strict new immigration law:
Florida’s attorney general asked the high court to put on hold a federal judge’s decision preventing enforcement of a law that makes it a crime for people in the U.S. unlawfully to enter Florida. –CBS News
‘Ticking time bomb’: ICE detainee dies in transit as experts say more deaths likely:
The Mexican-born man’s death comes as private companies with little to no oversight are increasingly tasked with transporting immigration detainees. –The Guardian
Immigration lawyer warns of reopened cases and how to prepare:
A lawyer offers legal tips that immigrant families should keep in mind as raids continue and as closed immigration cases are being reopened. –LAist
New York
End of the school year overshadowed by fear of immigration raids:
Parents and teachers have raised concerns about immigration agents spotted around New York schools. –EL PAÍS
Brad Lander Op-Ed: “Why I’m proud to have been arrested by ICE:
“It isn’t merely due process for asylum seekers that’s at risk; it’s constitutional protections for all Americans,” Lander writes. –The Wall Street Journal, Opinion
‘Finally there is justice:’ Former tobacco sweatshop workers relieved over wage theft indictment:
Tobacco processing workers, many of them immigrants, were overcome with emotion as they learned their former bosses were charged with stealing more than $310,000 in wages. –THE CITY
Around the U.S.
ICE arrests 11 Iranian nationals in 48 hours:
Those arrested include one watchlisted individual, though officials have not linked these arrests to any specific terrorism plots. –CBS News
Florida builds “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center for migrants in Everglades:
Immigrant advocates said the remote tent facility in the Everglades creates a whole new form of detention outside the scope of the federal government. –The New York Times
Newlywed bride’s honeymoon ends with months of ICE detention and the prospect of deportation:
Ward Sakeik, whose family is from Gaza but is legally stateless, has lived in the U.S. for 14 years and is married to a U.S. citizen, and was arrested upon returning from the U.S. Virgin Islands. –ABC News
Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports to Korea after nearly 50 years in the U.S.:
Sae Joon Park, a 55-year-old U.S. Army veteran and green-card holder, said leaving the U.S. was harder than getting shot in combat and battling PTSD and addiction in the years that followed. –NPR
ICE detains Marine Corps veteran’s wife who was still breastfeeding their baby:
She was detained during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans, leaving behind her 2-year-old son and three-month-old daughter. –Associated Press
Immigrant whom a judge is accused of aiding agrees to a plea deal:
The undocumented man from Mexico became an inadvertent figure in the debate over immigration enforcement after federal prosecutors said a Milwaukee judge had helped him evade agents. –The New York Times
Day laborers are braving the ICE storm to find work:
Undocumented laborers in San Francisco say it’s been harder to find work since President Trump’s immigration crackdown began. –The San Francisco Standard
