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.
IN COURT
- Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia graduate and pro-Palestinian activist, has appealed to the Supreme Court to review his deportation case in a move that could have consequence for other immigrants’ abilities to fight removal orders and detention in court. (The Guardian, [Paywall] New York Times)
- An HIV/AIDs organization in Tennessee filed a lawsuit to challenge new rules from the Tennessee Department of Health that would require low-income, HIV-positive patients to pass immigration checks in order to receive care. (Tennessee Lookout)
FROM THE FEDS
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- Democratic lawmakers are pressuring Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to restore contracts to legal advocacy groups that represent unaccompanied migrant children in court, raising concerns that new legal counsel lacks independence and immigration expertise. (ABC News, 📄 Letter)
- Border czar Tom Homan confirmed on Fox News that federal authorities are seeking evidence in their immigration fraud probe to denaturalize Rep. Ilhan Omar. (Truthout, CBS12)
DATA & RESEARCH
- A new report from the University of Washington finds that state laws have not stopped federal authorities from accessing DMV data in order to target immigrant drivers. (StateScoop, 📄 Report)
- Another report from Princeton University, tracking immigration court proceedings over the past two years, identifies the increasing procedural barriers that are eroding due process. (Inkstick Media, 📄 Report)
LOCAL
- The Open Hand food pantry, which serves 8,000 people in Morris Park and Pelham Parkway in The Bronx, has grown quieter since its founder, Alex Nilaj, was taken into ICE custody last week. (ABC7, NBC New York)
- Protests broke out in North Bergen, New Jersey, on Monday after masked ICE officers were seen stopping and questioning students who were walking to school. ICE has denied it targets students in a statement. ([Paywall] NJ.com, NJ1015, PIX11)
- Some voters in the Republican-leaning town of Roxbury, New Jersey, are rethinking how to vote during the midterm elections amid ICE’s plans to build a detention center there. (Gothamist, New Jersey Monitor)
ACROSS THE U.S.
- Polling shows that a majority of Latino Catholics disapprove of the Trump administration’s immigration policy — a factor that may sway how they vote in the midterms. (NCR)
- Immigrant advocacy groups have condemned two ICE arrests in Alameda County, California, that occurred last week, reporting that they ended in hospitalizations. (The E’Ville Eye, The Oaklandside, East Bay Times)
- Meanwhile, on Monday ICE agents pulled out a gun and arrested a man in San Francisco as he repeatedly asserted he was a U.S. citizen, according to video footage. (SF Gate)
- ICE said in a statement that Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, a 56-year-old Mexican man who reportedly died in Rio Grande Processing Center on Saturday, was a lawful permanent resident. (The Texas Tribune, ICE.gov)
