Immigration News Today: ICE Removes Thousands From Detainee Locator

Plus: DoorDash pays $131.5 million to settle worker pay claims.

Julia Malleck

Sep 22, 2026

An ICE ERO officer monitors a detention facility in Buffalo, NY. Photo: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Public Domain.

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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.

LOCAL

  • The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and Mayor Mamdani announced that it secured a $131.5 million settlement with DoorDash over underpaying some 260,000 delivery workers. (Documented)
  • President Trump paid a visit to Gracie Mansion for a tête-à-tête with Mayor Mamdani, where they discussed immigration, affordable housing and other policy issues ahead of the UN General Assembly. (Axios, [Paywall] New York Times
  • MOIA Commissioner Faiza Ali spoke about the Mamdani administration’s Executive Order 13, which is aimed at protecting New Yorkers from “abusive” immigration enforcement, at the NYC Council’s Committee on Immigration oversight hearing. (💬 @NYCImmigrants)  

ACROSS THE U.S.

  • A man wounded in an ICE shooting in Austin, Texas was detained with a bullet still in his back, and was later hospitalized for partial paralysis, according to his lawyer. The ICE officer who shot the man was reportedly not wearing a body camera. (CBS News, [Paywall] The Washington Post, Texas Public Radio
  • Meanwhile, protests have been staged outside the Texas Capitol in the wake of the shooting, calling for an end to ICE. (Houston Public Media
  • ICE agents hurt and arrested a U.S. citizen in Evanston, Illinois, after wrongly identifying him. Evanston police are now investigating the incident. (ABC7)
  • In an unpublicized move, ICE has started hiding the locations of thousands of detained immigrants with final removal orders. (AP)
  • Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) said that ICE barred her from talking to immigrants in detention during an oversight visit to Camp East Montana, which has abusive and inhumane conditions according to reports from detainees and their family members. (The Guardian, Border Report) 

IN COURT

  • Some immigrants in Maryland report that they are being summoned to hearings in Washington, D.C. on short notice at a location not associated with immigration court. (The Baltimore Banner)
  • A federal judge has permanently struck down a Trump administration policy that would have prohibited some immigrants from attending Head Start preschools and accessing other federal programs. (AP)

DATA 

  • A memo from centrist think tank Third Way finds that the Trump administration has stripped the legal status of 1.2 million people during its second term, and deported over 590,000 people, based on USCIS data. (NBC San Diego, 📄 Memo)

Julia Malleck

Julia Malleck is a journalist based in NYC. She writes Documented's flagship newsletter, Early Arrival, which tracks national and local developments in immigration policy. (And my handle on X/Twitter is @txt_julia)

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