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.
FROM THE FEDS
- Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a naturalized U.S. citizen and Somali immigrant who is running for reelection, said she will “not be silenced” after federal agents raided her home in Washington, D.C. on Monday. (AP, Reuters)
- Meanwhile, President Trump leveled attacks at Rep. Omar, Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, as well as Somali and Haitian immigrants at a campaign rally in Ohio. (PBS News)
- The Trump administration posted a new interim final rule, which formally goes into effect today, that slashes the time refugees have to contest their termination of status from 30 days to 10 days. The International Refugee Assistance Project warns it would make it easier to strip the status of resettled refugees and undermine due process. (AP, IRAP, 📄 Interim Final Rule)
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- Mayor Mamdani rejected calls from his progressive allies at the DSA to fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and disband specific police units following the shooting of Oscar Belgal. (New York Daily News, 💬 @DemSocialists)
- [Content warning] Harrison, New Jersey, officials are demanding answers after ICE arrested Jhon Maykel Correa Sangucho, an immigrant from Honduras, in front of his children. A video of the arrest has sparked outrage on social media. (ABC7, [Paywall] NJ.com)
- Oscar Belgal, who was shot by ICE in Marble Hill last week and is currently in detention, is in need of urgent medical care to remove a bullet that remains in his neck, according to The Legal Aid Society and Make the Road New York. (Gothamist)
ACROSS THE U.S.
- ICE has detained dozens of faith leaders across religious backgrounds, according to a new analysis. (Newsweek)
- Federal officials are reportedly selling two warehouses in Georgia that the government had planned to turn into detention centers. (Fox 5 Atlanta, WSB-TV)
- Policy experts warn that Trump’s immigration crackdown is exacerbating the existing physician shortage in the U.S. (Stateline)
- Law enforcement accessed the Flock camera data of public schools in Dayton, Ohio, thousands of times, including multiple instances where “immigration” was cited as the reason for access, records show. (Dayton Daily News)
- And in other Ohio news, two regional airports in the state, the Youngstown-Warren and Akron-Canton airports, have become hubs for ICE flights and deportation flights. (The Guardian)
IN COURT
- Immigrants have filed a class-action lawsuit against ICE, DHS and federal officials for allegedly refusing to return personal property to them, including passports, documents and personal items, after being released from custody. (Courthouse News, [Paywall] Wall Street Journal, 📄 Complaint)
