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.
Immigration officials outline plans to accept new DACA applicants to comply with a court order:
They cautioned, however, that the Trump administration retains the discretion to modify the Obama-era policy. –CBS News
The government is shutting down. Immigration courts are wide open
Deportations are continuing even though the federal shutdown is imperiling other immigration services. –The Independent; see also: Politico
Here’s why experts think Trump took ‘a sledgehammer’ to the H-1B visa worker program:
“It’s signaling sort of an unwelcoming environment, so that top talent may not be interested in coming to the U.S.,” one Wharton School of Business professor said. –PBS
Immigration officers still patrol with D.C. police after Trump emergency:
Mayor Muriel Bowser acknowledged that DHS agents have continued to join police patrols, even though District law bars D.C. police from cooperating with immigration authorities. –The Washington Post
US to let South Koreans work under temp visas, but clear solution elusive:
The U.S. agreed to allow South Koreans to work to set up facilities at U.S. investment sites under existing temporary visas, but had no answers to South Korea’s argument for wider access to U.S. visas for specialty workers. –Reuters
New York
NYC immigration courts go quiet amid shutdown, but detentions persist:
Federal agents detained at least three asylum seekers who showed up to scheduled appointments this week that had been canceled amid the shutdown. –The New York Times
Scenes from immigration court in New York’s Federal Plaza:
Till Eckert spent two weeks reporting from the twelfth-floor hallways, where ICE agents have had charged encounters with immigrants and reporters. –Columbia Journalism Review
Their families fled Soviet socialism. Now they’re knocking doors for Mamdani:
A world away from their parents’ Iron Curtain upbringings, young New Yorkers with roots from Poland to Turkmenistan are helping power the Democratic mayoral nominee’s sunny socialist campaign. –THE CITY
NY attorney general sues DOJ over funding cuts for crime survivors who cannot prove immigration status:
Funds had been available to victims regardless of immigration status until this month, when AG Letitia James said the DOJ informed states that victims without documentation would no longer be eligible. –Gothamist
Around the U.S.
US citizen sues after twice being detained by immigration agents:
U.S.-born Leo Garcia Venegas says “I just want to work in peace” after immigration agents in Alabama said his ID card was fake. –The Associated Press
Immigration judge denies Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s bid for asylum, but he has 30 days to appeal:
The judge in Baltimore denied an application to reopen Abrego Garcia’s asylum case after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. –The Associated Press
Oregon US Attorney demands county records on parolees with violent convictions for immigration enforcement:
Federal investigators said Portland-area counties are refusing to share information under Oregon’s sanctuary law. –Oregon Public Broadcasting
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: ‘I feel defeated’:
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid. –WBEZ
U.S. used a transnational crime unit to secretly target campus protesters:
A Tufts University graduate student was among those targeted after the Trump administration created a “tiger team” to investigate pro-Palestinian activists. –The Washington Post
The L.A. Dodgers risk alienating their fans or angering Trump:
For decades, the Dodgers have been the pride of L.A.’s Latino community. Trump’s immigration raids are testing that. –The New York Times
