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
- In a fiery, 125-page ruling, a federal judge ordered DHS to improve the “squalid” conditions of ICE detention rooms at 26 Federal Plaza. (Documented)
- And speaking of, Rep. Dan Goldman says he was denied access to a secretive, new immigration courtroom on the third floor of 26 Federal Plaza. (New York Focus)
- West 14th Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan has officially been named “Little Spain–La Nacional Way,” in honor of the Spanish immigrant community in New York City. (HOLA!)
- There is a new public art installation in the Bronx that celebrates the stories of immigrant New Yorkers, and it moves to Queens next week. (amNY)
ACROSS THE U.S.
- Federal immigration agents have shot at least 21 people since the start of the second Trump administration, following the non-fatal shooting of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin, Texas, last weekend. (ABC News)
- Paul LePage — a former governor of Maine, Trump ally and Republican running for Congress — announced his father-in-law was detained by ICE and called it “not right.” (WGME)
- Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has called for a probe after a man died in a car crash while fleeing ICE in Grand Rapids last weekend. Other Democrats and immigrant advocates are also demanding transparency from DHS. (Detroit Free Press, The Guardian)
- Immigrant rights groups announced the launch of Detentionhelp.org to assist immigrants with filing habeas petitions without a lawyer. (📄NIPNLG)
IN COURT
- The Trump administration asked SCOTUS to permit rapid third-country deportations following rulings in lower courts that find the policy violates due process rights. (Reuters)
- Democratic party leaders and campaign committees sued the Trump administration over its threats to send armed agents to polling stations ahead of the midterm elections. (The Hill, 📄Complaint)
FROM THE FEDS
- The majority of refugees accepted into the U.S. in FY2027 will be white South Africans, according to a Trump administration report. (CNN)
- ICE is looking to use “mobile” detention sites in Pennsylvania and Delaware to assist with enforcement operations, according to a federal contract solicitation. (Project Salt Box)
