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.
Around the U.S.
Trump admin. prepares to potentially send FBI, troops into Minnesota:
The U.S. government is preparing 1,500 military personnel amid ongoing clashes between protestors and federal immigration agents. —Bloomberg
Judge rules feds cannot detain or tear gas peaceful demonstrators, observers in Minneapolis:
The ruling comes amid reports that federal immigration agents are teargassing families, detaining Native Americans, asking individuals to prove their citizenship and arresting individuals based on their “accent.” —AP, CNBC, 📹CNN, Mother Jones, Washington Post
ICE takes credit for incarcerated people already in Minnesota prisons:
A fact-check of DHS’s list of individuals arrested from Jan. 12 shows the agency is falsely reporting numbers. —MPR News
Minneapolis parents launch street patrols outside schools amid immigration crackdown:
Community members are taking student safety into their own hands as 3,000 federal immigration authorities have flooded the Twin Cities. —NBC News
Louisiana Republicans vote to endorse Trump immigration policies:
On Saturday, state lawmakers passed a resolution stating the administration is doing “vital work” that upholds “national sovereignty.” —Louisiana Illuminator
Washington D.C.
Judge gives Trump admin. 3 weeks to bring deported student back to U.S.:
Babson College freshman Any Lucia López Belloza was sent to Honduras over Thanksgiving in what the administration has admitted was a “mistake.” —The Guardian
Top immigration judge tells colleagues to deny bond hearings despite prior court rulings:
Chief Immigration Judge Teresa Riley sent the message to her fellow immigration judges in an email on Tuesday, according to an ACLU filing. —Reuters
Sen. Mark Kelley introducs legislation to limit ICE use-of-force, masking:
The Arizona Democrat proposed the bill in response to, and in the wake of, two shootings in Minneapolis this month. —ABC15
DHS infighting sparked over $2 million office renovation proposal:
Homeland Secyrity Secretary Kristi Noem’s team reportedly struck down CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott’s requested suite upgrades. —POLITICO
Senate’s Democratic Appropriations Committee members to say no to funding increase for ICE:
The committee’s Democratic and Republican members are slated for a face-off on Jan. 30, when the government’s stopgap funding deal expires. —Migrant Insider
