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.
ACROSS THE U.S.
- An aging workforce combined with the immigration crackdown is leading to shortages in skilled trade workers nationwide. (New Jersey Monitor)
- ICE leadership has told agents to increase arrests by 1,000 more people daily, according to sources. ([Paywall] CNN, 📹Local10)
- A group of 18 activists participated in a 100-mile-long march against detention centers that ended in downtown Los Angeles this week. (USA Today)
- A Utah police department is reevaluating its 287(g) agreement ICE following ride-alongs last week that led to several detentions. (ABC4, KSL)
- The family of Silverio Villegas González, who was shot and killed by an ICE in Franklin Park, Illinois, last September after dropping off his children at school and daycare, is seeking damages from the federal government. (Chicago Sun-Times)
FROM THE FEDS
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- Vice President JD Vance announced the launch of a fraud investigation into the use of J-1 visas at nine schools, including Harvard, Yale and MIT, in the administration’s latest attack on international students. He also announced the suspension of a green card program for tech workers. (POLITICO, Reuters)
- In related news, DHS has proposed slapping a $70,000 fee on international students seeking to work in the U.S. that schools would be responsible for paying. (PBS, 📄 DHS.gov)
- More Republican lawmakers are speaking up about the Trump administration going too far on immigration, and are worried it will impact midterms results. (The Hill)
- The Trump administration is assembling its own team of lawyers to represent unaccompanied migrant children in court after cutting its contract with Acacia Center for Justice, which managed 24,000 cases. (AP)
DATA & RESEARCH
- A new analysis finds that there are now 32,000 fewer jobs in Minnesota due to the economic impact of Operation Metro Surge. (Immigration Research Initiative)
- An Army study shows that the electric shock gloves ICE has purchased in the thousands caused participants to feel “intense pain” and that they experienced “fatigue, soreness and excessive apprehensiveness to being shocked again.” (Mother Jones)
IN COURT
- Due process concerns are being raised at an immigration court in Concord, California, which has taken on thousands of cases since the Trump administration closed San Francisco’s immigration court last month. (NBC Bay Area)
LOCAL
- ICE has arrested nearly 40,000 people across New York and New Jersey under the current Trump administration, according to newly released government data. (Gothamist)
- ⏳[Long read] ICE has been using a warehouse in Roxbury, New Jersey, as a detention facility, according to an investigation, despite being legally barred from doing so. (NPR)
