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.
IMMIGRATION PATHWAYS
- El Salvador’s TPS, the longest-running designation under the program, is set to end today — removing protections for 170,000 people. Communities are bracing for impact. (Latin Times, Maryland Matters, Nevada Current, ⏳The Marshall Project, 📄USCIS)
- The Trump administration resumed visa processing for Hungary and Poland last week, according to sources, while a hold remains on visas for other countries. (Reuters)
IN COURT
- A judge ruled that the IRS unlawfully shared 47,000 taxpayer addresses with ICE following a request from the agency for as many as 1.28 million addresses to target immigrants living in the U.S. (Reuters)
- The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to permit the use of its faulty immigration database, known as “SAVE,” to purge voter rolls ahead of the midterm elections. (Democracy Docket, The Hill)
- A judge permitted federal immigration authorities to force feed a hunger striker in a Texas detention center, marking the 19th hunger striker ICE has been permitted to conduct “involuntary medical procedures” on since January 2025. (The Guardian)
- ⏳[Long read] ICE agent Christian Castro was charged with allegedly lying to investigators about the shooting of a man in Minneapolis — an unprecedented move by the Trump administration. It highlights just how many ICE agents the DOJ is not holding accountable. ([Paywall] The Washington Post)
LOCAL
- Members of New York’s Haitian community say that celebrating Caribbean Carnival has taken on new significance this year following the end of TPS. (AP)
- Passaic, New Jersey, has put its annual Mexican Independence Day Parade on hold following an uptick in ICE arrests, one of which ended in a Delaney Hall-linked death. (CBS News)
- A federal judge upheld New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s executive order barring ICE from entering nonpublic areas of state property. (New Jersey Monitor)
ACROSS THE U.S.
- Arlington County, Virginia, has set aside $50,000 in grants to support families whose wage earners are in ICE detention. (ARLnow)
- ICE has paid nearly $10 million to maintain a Maryland warehouse it is legally barred from converting into a detention facility. (Project Salt Box)
- A new report from the University of Illinois Chicago finds that the immigration crackdowns in the city since 2025 have cost local businesses $1.26 billion. (NPR, 📄Report)
- Another report from Urban Institute finds that changes to immigration policy could impact older and disabled peoples’ access to direct care and exacerbate the shortage of direct care workers. (📄Report)
