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
- The Trump administration has proposed excluding the vast majority of immigrants in the 2030 U.S. Census, and eliminating questions about race and ethnicity that have been on the census since 1790. The proposal is open to public comment for 30 days. (Reuters, 📄Federal Register)
- The federal government is also seeking to end the 60-day grace period for H-1B visa holders who have been laid off. (Law Commentary)
IN COURT
- Yet another federal appeals court, bringing the total to nine, has ruled against the Trump administration’s mandatory detention policy, comparing it to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War 2. (AP)
LOCAL
- Civil rights groups filed a class-action lawsuit against DHS yesterday over a “military-style” raid of a factory in Cato in September 2025, alleging the violation of Fourth Amendment rights. Released bodycam footage gives a rare look at an immigration enforcement operation. (WRAL, 📄Complaint)
- Advocates say that a transfer of more than 700 people out of Newark’s Delaney Hall was an attempt to break a strike within the facility. (The City Reporter)
- An English writing workshop connecting Korean immigrant women with Korean American teens in NYC has produced a new book about memory, migration and family. (Epicenter NYC)
ACROSS THE U.S.
- Immigration authorities sent a Somali asylum seeker and Minnesota resident to Guantánamo Bay, even though he had no criminal record and a legal right to live in the U.S. (MPR News, Truthout)
- [Long read] ⏳A new lawsuit filed against DHS, DOJ, FBI and other federal agencies alleges that immigration officers violated ICE watchers’ First Amendment rights while they lawfully observed the agency’s actions. (NPR)
- Another lawsuit, filed by a coalition of advocacy groups and Denver, Colorado, seeks to block the Trump administration from sending ICE agents to polling sites. (CBS News, [Paywall] The Washington Post, 📄Complaint)
- [Tool] A new interactive map shows how the Trump administration’s changes to federal funding will impact states’ healthcare, food assistance and other programs. (FWD.us)
