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.
New York
Fears of mass deportation grip NYC’s Haitian community after TPS ends:
Neighborhoods and local businesses are feeling the effects as Haitian community members stay home, uncertain of what will happen next. —New York Daily News
Migrant children in New York at increased risk of deportation amid Trump admin. changes, lawyers warn:
The expediting of asylum interviews and expiration of a $356 million-a-year federal contract for legal services is hurting migrant children’ s ability to argue their cases in court, and in front of immigration officers. —New York Focus, Gothamist, Chalkbeat
Nurse running clinic outside Delaney Hall files lawsuit against ICE, alleging assault:
An Inwood resident is also planning to sue a federal agent for use of force after being pepper sprayed while she was filming ICE activity in her neighborhood last week. —The 19th, NY1, ABC7
Around the U.S.
UC San Diego cuts ties with Border Patrol following student and faculty protest:
Campus police had previously collaborated with the agency through a federal grant program. —Cal Matters
Family of Haitian immigrant who froze to death in Pittsburgh suing ICE:
Daphy Michel was released from ICE custody into 20F temperatures while wearing summer clothes. The medical examiner’s office ruled her death a homicide. —The Guardian
Man living in Durham dies of leukemia in ICE custody, while judge orders release of Louisville woman over health concerns:
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano, a 29-year-old Mexican national, fell seriously ill during his three weeks in a Georgia detention center. Sarafinah Bukirwa, a Ugandan national, was detained and later released after raising concerns about treating her sickle cell anemia. —Enlace Latino NC, Cardinal&Pine, WHAS11
“Worm-like creatures” found in water at California ICE jail, video shows:
Detainees at the Adelanto detention center say that the water they are being provided comes from an unknown source, and is not potable. —LA Taco, LA Times [Paywall]
Deported by the U.S., detained in Venezuela — then lost in the earthquakes
The immigrants aboard Flight 164 were pursuing lives in the U.S. when ICE detained them. In Venezuela, they were held in a building that collapsed hours later. — Washington Post
Washington, D.C.
Trump admin. to impose bond of $20,000 on some business, tourist visas:
A new final rule from the State Department establishes a permanent visa bond program that will impose the fees on dozens of countries, mostly in Africa, to “reduce overstay rates.” —Bloomberg Law, Reuters, 📄Rule
[Data story] “Overwhelmed” immigration courts speed through dozens of cases a day, driving up deportations:
Asylum cases considered abandoned, absentia proceedings and deportation orders have skyrocketed under the second Trump administration. —AP
ICE detains, releases public health researcher at Johns Hopkins:
Fatima Ameaka, originally from Cameroon, was detained while boarding a domestic flight at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. —The Banner, ABC News
