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.
DOJ & SCOTUS UPDATES
- [Analysis] The Trump administration has largely failed to convict the over 100 anti-ICE protesters it has charged with assaulting federal officers, marking a rare instance in which judges and juries are deciding to side against federal prosecutors. (AP)
- The DOJ announced it secured its first-ever deportation order through the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, a secretive tribunal which was dormant prior to the Trump administration. (Axios, WCVB)
- In other DOJ news, the country’s highest court filed lawsuits against Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Hawaii and Utah over providing in-state tuition for DACA recipients and other immigrant students, bringing the number of similar suits to 25. (Arkansas Advocate, Utah News Dispatch, Justice.gov)
- The Supreme Court has dismissed an immigration case related to Trump’s mandatory detention policy, scheduled for argument in October, after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul granted a pardon to the case’s remaining plaintiff. (WFMD, SCOTUSblog)
IN OTHER LEGAL NEWS…
- A federal judge dismissed a claim from journalist Estefany Rodriguez that ICE detained her in retaliation for her reporting at the Spanish-language outlet Nashville Noticias. (Tennessee Lookout)
- A judge ordered that ICE stop the construction of a new detention center in Santa Clara, California, on environmental grounds, marking a major victory for advocates. (NBC Bay Area, The Mercury News)
- A former immigration court judge in San Francisco alleges in a new lawsuit that she was fired 48 hours after raising concerns about a courthouse detention. (SFGate)
LOCAL
- New York’s attorney general is reportedly investigating a contract between the town of Lancaster and ICE that permits the agency to rent storage space from the local police department. (Spectrum Local News)
- At least five people were reportedly arrested during an anti-ICE protest in Atlantic City on Saturday, following a confrontation between protesters and the police. (NJ1015, NBC Philadelphia)
- [Long read] The cleanup crews who sorted through the rubble in lower Manhattan following 9/11 included thousands of immigrant workers. Many of them still live in New York today, and live in fear of ICE. (NPR)
ACROSS THE U.S.
- [Content warning] Maryland political leaders and advocates are calling for an investigation into an ICE operation in Frederick as footage of agents hitting protesters with batons has circulated online. (WUSA9, CBS News, The Guardian)
- An Afghan father who helped the U.S. fight against the Taliban was recently reunited with his wife and some of his children in Kansas City after he filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its travel ban. (KCUR)
- Florida lawmakers granted the DeSantis administration millions of dollars to pay nearly 600 unpaid bills related to immigration enforcement, totaling about $417 million. (Miami Herald, WLRN)
- Louisiana residents are organizing to stop the building of an ICE detention facility on a former U.S. Air Force base that was shut in 1992 due to harmful levels of “forever chemicals” found in the groundwater. (Truthout)
