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.
ELECTION DIGEST
- ICE was told to cancel all immigration operations on Election Day, according to ICE officials. The orders were reportedly handed down verbally to avoid media attention. (The Intercept)
- Latino voters helped drive Democratic victories in Republican-controlled counties in the midterms amid changing attitudes on federal immigration policy and the economy. (Reuters, KWCH, 📹PBS)
- On Tuesday, Colorado voters rejected Amendment 81, which would have required local law enforcement to notify federal immigration authorities when a person was charged with a crime and lacked legal status, or had unknown status. (CPR, The Guardian)
- ⏳[Long read] Once Democrats take control of Congress in January, there are several concrete ways lawmakers can begin shifting federal immigration policy. ([Paywall] The Washington Post)
- ⏳[Long read] The Trump administration’s aggressive immigration tactics influenced voters across the U.S. during the midterms. (New York Times)
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- Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin vowed that “deportations will continue” in a post on X, one day after Democrats secured control of Congress in the midterm elections. (The Hill)
- President Trump reportedly told aides that top policy adviser Stephen Miller had gone “too far” with immigration enforcement after First Lady Melania Trump privately complained that people she knew were being deported. ([Paywall] Wall Street Journal, The Independent)
ACROSS THE U.S.
- Private prison company CoreCivic has urged ICE to buy more of its facilities in the wake of the election. In an investor call on Thursday, its CEO announced earnings of $1.3 billion in the third quarter, and called the sale of facilities to ICE “cash-generating events.” (Project Salt Box)
- British lobbyist and D.C. resident Paul Hamill — who overstayed his visa by eight years, was detained, and then released from ICE custody last month — has been given months to leave the country. A former ICE official has called his case “highly unusual.” (POLITICO)
IN COURT
- A judge rejected the DOJ’s effort to tie millions of dollars in federal grant money to Democrat-led states’ compliance with immigration enforcement. (Reuters)
LOCAL
- Chinese immigrants in Bensonhurst report that public safety and affordability were the top issues shaping how they voted this election season. (Documented)
- Andrei Gerdiukov, a Russian asylum seeker and Brooklyn resident, ended a monthlong hunger strike in a Georgia detention facility as he seeks release or transfer to a New York facility to be closer to his wife. (The City Reporter)
- A judge denied a request from 15 New York sheriffs to temporarily block the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, which curbs local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities. (CBS 6 Albany)
- Despite Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vocal support for street vendors, an analysis shows tickets for unlawful vending in NYC have reached new highs under his administration, up 43% through the end of September year-on-year. (Gothamist)
