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.
Trump put a new fee on asylum seekers. Many say they don’t know how to pay:
The fees, which are new, were part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but the administration’s rollout has been plagued by mishaps. –Politico
ICE keeps detaining pregnant immigrants — against federal policy:
The number is impossible to measure since Congress let lapse a requirement that ICE report how many pregnant, postpartum and nursing immigrants are in custody. –The 19th
Congressional Democrats investigate arrests of Americans during raids:
Rep. Robert Garcia and Sen. Richard Blumenthal started an inquiry to examine reports of misconduct by immigration agents, focusing on the arrests of citizens. –The New York Times
Belize signs ‘safe third country’ agreement as part of Trump’s immigration crackdown:
The small Central American nation of Belize has signed a “safe third country” agreement with the United States. –The Associated Press
New York
More than two dozen federal agents descend on Chinatown in apparent raid:
They arrived at Canal Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown on Tuesday afternoon, detaining at least four people as part of an apparent raid that later escalated into street clashes with bystanders. –Gothamist; NBC News; THE CITY
U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman asks the NYPD to enforce state law against federal agents:
The New York City Congress member has asked NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to go so far as to arrest federal agents acting unlawfully. –MSNBC; NY1
‘Zohran is for us,’ say Haitian diaspora leaders rallying support for NYC mayoral candidate:
On Sunday, Haitian American organizers and politicians gathered on Zoom to discuss solidarity with Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. –Haitian Times
Mahmoud Khalil says government using immigration court to ‘control process’ and remove him:
The pro-Palestinian activist accused the Trump administration of trying to detain him again by using immigration court as a so-called “kangaroo court.” –ABC News
Democrat running for NJ governor wants to ban ICE agents from wearing masks:
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic nominee for governor, said she would seek to ban federal immigration agents from covering their faces during enforcement operations if she’s elected next month. –New Jersey Monitor
Around the U.S.
Arizona police agencies were once at the forefront of local immigration enforcement. Now most are avoiding it:
The Trump administration’s national recruitment campaign to deploy local officers as deportation agents has added more than 900 agencies, but only four in Arizona have signed on. –ProPublica
Appeals court lifts block on Trump’s Oregon troop deployment:
Deployment can move forward, for now, under a preliminary ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, but legal wrangling will likely continue. –The New York Times
In Chicago, an immense show of force signals a sharp escalation in White House immigration crackdown:
“It was like we were under attack,” one resident said days after the raid, speaking through the hole where his door knob used to be. –The Associated Press
My time in Mexico’s largest immigration detention center:
Nabbed at the airport, the writer was thrown into Mexico’s largest immigration detention center and learned from fellow detainees about the horrible violence of the Darién Gap. –Jacobin
ICE says it detained over 100 immigrants in Idaho raid. What we know: Federal agents arrested 105 undocumented immigrants in the raid at a racetrack Sunday in rural Wilder, according to a Homeland Security Department spokesperson. –Idaho Statesman
