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
- Undocumented college students in New York are afraid the Trump administration’s latest attack on in-state tuition and financial aid will force them to drop out. (New York Daily News)
- Linda Wolff, who was maced by an ICE agent during an operation in Inwood two weeks ago, will become the first New Yorker to sue an immigration agent under the state’s new Bivens Act. (Hell Gate, ABC7)
- Some law enforcement agencies in New York — including the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office and Police Department on Long Island — have yet to end their 287(g) contracts with ICE, as the clock ticks down to the Aug. 25 deadline. (PIX11)
ACROSS THE U.S.
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- On Saturday, Democrats clashed over abolishing or reforming ICE at a gathering of the Democratic National Committee in Austin, reflecting a key split ahead of the midterm elections. (AP)
- A recent airport arrest ended one three-time Trump voter’s allegiance to the president, after his partner, a green card applicant, was arrested after disembarking from a flight in California. (New York Times [Paywall])
- An immigration law firm in Sacramento alleges that ICE agents targeted their office from a list of addresses linked to undocumented immigrants, had no warrant, and tried to break in. (KCRA)
- A wife of a U.S. soldier was removed from a deportation flight to Brazil and able to return to her home in Louisiana, as the arrest and detention of military spouses has faced increasing public backlash. (AP)
- The Rebel Loon Archive, a Minnesota organization founded in the wake of Operation Metro Surge, collects ICE protest art from across the state and has just published its first book. (MPR News)
DETENTION CENTERS
- Immigrants detained in Mississippi’s Adams County detention center say they were denied medical attention following a gas leak, among other reports of inhumane conditions and abuse. (The Guardian)
- Marcos Gaspar-Da Silva, a Maine resident and asylum seeker from Brazil, was granted a green card after spending nearly seven months in detention. (Maine Morning Star)
- A Los Angeles family — all green card holders with no criminal records — has been detained in Texas for months in an “unendurable, unending nightmare.” (The Nation, NBC Los Angeles)
- An Oregon lawmaker conducted an inspection of Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma amid a hunger strike among an estimated 140 detainees that began last Tuesday. (Yakima Herald-Republic, The News Tribune)
IN COURT
- The DOJ has expanded the military’s power to detain migrants in “national defense areas” as part of the federal crackdown on southern border crossings. (CBS News)
LONG READS
- Wendy Domingo, an 18-year-old from Florida, is raising her four siblings alone after their parents were detained by ICE. (Palm Beach Post)
- Homeland Security Investigations has largely failed to find evidence of widespread noncitizen voting, despite the Trump administration’s claims that it is rampant. (ProPublica)
