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.
Volunteers flock to immigration courts to support migrants arrested in the hallways:
Faith leaders, college students, grandmothers, retired lawyers and professors have all been showing up at immigration courts to escort immigrants at risk of being detained for deportation. –The Associated Press
To staff Trump’s immigration crackdown, ICE entices its retirees:
The administration is offering financial incentives to lure back recently departed immigration officers as it works to fill 10,000 job openings. –The New York Times
ICE chief says he will continue to allow agents to wear masks during arrest raids:
Legal advocates and attorneys general argue the practice poses accountability issues and contributes to a climate of fear. –The Guardian
Fact check: Does ICE have higher detention standards than U.S. prisons?
Gaps in detention standards for immigrants lead to inconsistent practices and poor conditions, watchdog groups say. –Al Jazeera
New York
Mamdani wins endorsement of powerful health care union once loyal to Cuomo:
1199SEIU joins the city’s biggest unions in backing the Democratic nominee, who has largely consolidated labor’s support ahead of November’s general election. –THE CITY
Trump administration plans to detain immigrants at NJ military base:
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst was chosen “for temporary use” as an immigration jail — a plan a New Jersey Congress member slammed as “abhorrent.” –NJ Spotlight News
Bronx Defenders join growing legal services worker strike:
Attorneys and legal staff at three groups walked out of negotiations on Thursday, marking the first time since 1994 that criminal defense lawyers for the poor have halted work. –THE CITY
Queens high school student detained by ICE returns to NYC, reunited with his family after a month in detention in Texas:
Derlis Toaquiza, 19, had gone to an immigration hearing in Lower Manhattan, where ICE detained him. –WABC
Around the U.S.
A Pro-Trump community reckons with losing a beloved immigrant neighbor:
Voters in Oregon’s rural Yamhill County have backed Trump, but were shaken when Moises Sotelo, who was undocumented and had lived there for 31 years, was detained for five weeks and deported to Mexico. –The New York Times (Opinion)
ICE secretly deported Pennsylvania grandfather, 82, after he lost green card:
The family of Luis Leon says a woman posing as an immigration lawyer initially told the family he had died, but they found him alive in a Guatemala hospital. –The Guardian
Trump’s immigration crackdown causing labor shortages to California’s construction industry, builder says:
“They’re hiding,” a general contractor said of undocumented construction workers who have lately decided not to come to work. –CBS News
13 arrested during immigration-related protest in Cincinnati:
Police in Cincinnati arrested at least 13 people, including two journalists, after demonstrators protesting the immigration detention of a former hospital chaplain blocked a two-lane bridge over the Ohio River. –Associated Press
California cannabis companies hoped Trump would be an ally, but then the raids happened:
Federal agents arrested hundreds of workers after immigration sweeps at a California cannabis company, stoking fears that President Trump might target the marijuana industry. –CalMatters
