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.
New York
With few lawyers, immigrants in upstate New York face challenges finding legal defense:
New York City has a much higher concentration of immigration lawyers, funding and general aid organizations compared to upstate, where many struggle to get the help they need. –Spectrum News
Federal agents make arrests outside migrant shelter in Times Square:
The arrests, on the crowded sidewalks of Midtown Manhattan, rattled migrants residing at a hotel and shook the theater district, which is heavily trafficked by tourists. –The New York Ti wasdfe mes
‘I am not giving up’: Edafe Okporo on his platform for West Harlem and running third party:
The immigration rights activist and former asylum seeker is running under the West Side United Party for the District 7 City Council seat in the general election this fall. –Columbia Spectator
Around the U.S.
A squalid building, a tip to the feds, and then ‘straight-up chaos’:
An immigration raid on an apartment building in Chicago followed years of problems with crime and neglect by landlords. It swept up dozens of U.S. citizens who were detained in the middle of the night. –The New York Times
Travel ban separates Cuban families, divides community loyal to Trump:
Cuban Americans trying to bring relatives from the island to the U.S. are seeing their claims rejected. The denials have exacerbated tensions in Florida over Trump’s immigration policies. –The Washington Post
Mexican father, reflecting a trend, leaves family of 19 years and self-deports due to threat of arrest:
“The decision is to give peace to my wife and to my kids,” Fidel Rivera says. –ABC News
The San Francisco composer who became an immigration court-watcher:
His Jewish grandfather fled Eastern Europe for the U.S. Now, Nicholas Weininger tries to help others do the same. –Mission Local
Washington D.C.
DHS issued a call to ‘remigrate.’ Here’s the history of the term often associated with far-right groups:
Experts who study and monitor extremism and the far right said the word has historic roots, including in Nazi ideology and, more recently, a violent conspiracy theory that’s inspired terrorist attacks in the U.S. and abroad. –CNN
ICE says it provides ‘proper meals.’ Detainees see crystalized jelly, rancid beans and iced bologna:
Researchers say “bad food is the business model” for immigration detention companies. –USA Today
DHS statements on nationwide arrests face a problem of credibility:
Public statements from the Department of Homeland Security during its migrant crackdowns have been contradicted or undermined by local officials, a civil rights attorney and a legal filing. –CNN
Trump ties crime with immigration, blurring the lines with Guard deployment:
Experts worry that the pattern of National Guard deployments, alongside increased federal immigration raids and operations, has allowed for violent crime and illegal immigration to be conflated into a single crisis. –NPR
Ex-ICE director says Trump’s immigration crackdown putting agents in “terrible position”:
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“These are units that are designed to address high-risk threats and bring overwhelming force to bear…I blame the administration for putting agents, who are trained in this manner, in a city where they don’t belong,” he said. –CBS News
Trump’s immigration crackdown weighs heavy on the US labor market:
The crackdown is throwing foreigners out of work and shaking the American economy at a time when hiring is already deteriorating due to Trump’s erratic trade policies. –The Associated Press
