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.
FROM THE FEDS
- DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced that ICE will have enough body cameras to equip all its agents in the field by the end of September. (CNN)
- A newly uncovered DHS memo from April 2025 shows that the agency found a legal workaround to authorize the National Guard to participate in immigration operations. (POLITICO, Scripps News)
- The DOT, DOJ and DHS announced the shutdown of over 110 commercial truck-driving schools across the U.S. for giving licenses to individuals who failed their English proficiency tests as part of its crackdown on immigrant truck drivers (The Hill, Transportation.gov)
- The Trump administration is planning to end employment authorization eligibility for the spouses of H-1B holders in the latest restriction on the program. (Bloomberg Law)
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- Asylum denials hit 94% in June as mass firings and resignations of immigration judges have reshaped decision-making in the courts. (TRAC Reports)
LOCAL
- The Mamdani administration released the city’s first racial equity plan, which touches on a wide range of policy issues, including housing, welfare, economic security and education access. (Gothamist, NYC.gov)
ACROSS THE U.S.
- [Content warning] A 20-year-old Haitian student in Springfield, Ohio took his own life, advocates say, after he was fitted with an ankle monitor in July following the end of TPS. (Springfield News-Sun)
- California lawmakers voted to pass the ‘GTFO Act,’ which limits the hiring of former federal immigration officers, and moved to ban electric-shock gloves. (Union-Bulletin, LA Times [Paywall])
- ICE is holding a 76-year-old green card holder suffering from stage four cancer in Tacoma’s detention center. Migrant advocates are fighting for his release. (The Guardian, The Seattle Times [Paywall])
