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.
Around the U.S.
Report shows Elon Musk — powerful critic of undocumented immigrants — worked illegally in U.S. at start of career:
Business associates, court records and company documents showed Musk did not have the legal right to work in the U.S. while creating Zip2, a company that sold for $300 million. — Washington Post
Washington D.C.
DHS deports Indian nationals on charter flight:
Since June 2024, DHS has removed or returned over 160,000 individuals and operated more than 495 international repatriation flights to more than 145 countries, including India. — DHS
Republicans sue Biden DHS in pursuit of noncitizen voting claims:
Republicans are escalating last-minute demands on the Biden administration to check the citizenship of voters. Their demands are too late to be considered credible, election law experts say. — NPR
Trump calls US ‘garbage can for the world’ in latest anti-immigrant rhetoric:
Trump added to his schtick of anti-immigrant rhetoric at a rally in battleground Arizona on Thursday, calling the United States a “garbage can for the world.” — ABC News
The specter of being overturn — how the U.S. presidential candidates joined the global shift rightward on immigration:
As Trump leans into nativist attacks on immigrants, Harris has responded with her own pledges for more restrictions, even at the expense of internationally recognized asylum rights. — Al Jazeera
How Trump tariff threats might plunge Mexico into recession and stoke immigration:Trump says tariffs will help lure factories back to the U.S. Economists are skeptical of that claim. — Los Angeles Times
New York
Migrants will soon be moving out of Western New York hotels:
Asylum seekers in Cheektowaga and Amherst hotels must leave by Dec. 31. Individuals without permanent placements will be transported back to NYC. — WGRZ
Texas spent $125M in taxpayer money to move migrants to NYC, but New York is sending them back:
New York City has paid to fly 4,507 asylum seekers to Texas, which is the top destination for migrants as part of a relocation program that’s been underway for months. — ABC 13 Eyewitness News
