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.
ELECTION DIGEST
- ICE’s immigration crackdown is likely to continue following President Trump’s decision to promote Stephen Miller to chief of staff, according to sources. (CBS News, [Paywall] New York Times, USA Today)
- Leaders from the agricultural and construction industries have expressed shock at Miller’s White House promotion as the aggressive immigration enforcement has cut into their labor force. ([Paywall] The Washington Post)
- Democrats are readying to mount challenges to the Trump administration’s immigration agenda when they gain control of Congress, and potentially expand investigations into fatal ICE shootings. Democratic attorneys general-elect could also roll back Republican-led lawsuits impacting state immigration policies. (AP, El País, Reuters, NPR)
- Meanwhile, the American Immigration Lawyers Association has called on the new Democratic majority in Congress to wield their power to enact immigration reform. (📄Press release)
ACROSS THE U.S.
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- An 8-year-old boy from Haiti was detained at an immigration appointment in San Diego last week. The third grader had been living with his uncle after his father was deported in March 2025. (KPBS, NBC 7 San Diego)
- Protests broke out in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, on Saturday after community members reportedly witnessed ICE detaining and bringing an individual inside a hospital. Federal agents also detained two U.S. citizens who were protesting, according to rapid response groups. (Boyle Heights Beat, ABC7, [Paywall] LA Times)
- Immigrant families in Virginia, including the Rezaie family who moved from Afghanistan to Newport News, are struggling after federal changes to eligibility for food assistance and healthcare. (The Virginia-Pilot)
- A new poll from Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics finds that Utah is increasingly split down the center when it comes to some views on immigration and deportations, representing a shift in the historically red state. (Deseret)
LOCAL
- New York has set a hard deadline of Nov. 25 for counties to stop holding immigrants on behalf of ICE in local jails. ([Paywall] SILive)
- A federal judge ruled that the Mamdani administration must provide ICE with the names and birthdays of some individuals living in a city-run homeless shelter in the South Bronx. (Gothamist)
- Pro-immigration enforcement group the Federation for American Immigration Reform filed a freedom of information request with the New York DMV to obtain information on the state’s commercial driver’s license program. (Long Island Life & Politics)
- The federal government is apparently pushing ahead with the construction of an $31.8 million ICE detention facility in Roxbury, New Jersey — a township whose Republican congressional representative lost to a Democrat in the midterms — despite a court order prohibiting the move. ([Paywall] NJ.com, New Jersey Globe, Daily Record)
