U.S. Department of Justice Press release: The United States has filed a complaint and motion for preliminary injunction against the State of New Mexico, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez, the City of Albuquerque, and Albuquerque Mayor Timothy Keller, alleging that the implementation
Harry Litman for The New Republic (How ICE Withheld Info From a Federal Judge—and Then Smeared Her for It ICE issued a press release accusing the jurist of freeing a murderer. Problem: ICE had withheld that very information from her.) reports on an amazing story: "Last week, the
Late last month, Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (Dem-CA) introduced a bill she calls the Pregnant Women in Custody Act. The bill aims to collect data, prioritize family unity, ensure access to appropriate services and programs, and prohibit "restrictive housing" for incarcerated women who are pregnant, in labor, and postpartum.
Scrolling the interwebs, I came across this article from The Guardian: ‘Everyone has a breaking point’: the immigration judges at the sharp end of Trump’s deportation drive. To be honest, it was the first words of the piece that really caught my attention: "David Koelsch, a former immigration
Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance by Paolo Boccagni What does everyday life look like for young men who flee to Europe, survive, and are then assigned temporary housing? Hypersurveillance or parallel normality, irrelevance, or even nothingness? Based on four years of ethnographic research, Undoing Nothing recounts the
Twenty-three crewmembers on the ship reportedly were arrested on April 28, according to a statement from an ICE spokesperson. NBC7 reports. Disney recently announced that it is doubling the number of cruise ships that make stops in San Diego. As reported by NBC News San Diego, an ICE spokesperson released
An ICE letter shows that more than 1,400 arrests took place in locations like schools, hospitals and places of worship between January 2025 and April 2026. See this article in the San Diego Tribune.
WaPo today covers a story that strikes me as unsurprising: there has been an uptick in migrants accepting voluntary departure. Specifically, between January 2025 and March 2026, IJs granted voluntary departure to some 80,000 noncitizens. This is, WaPo notes, around 11x the number of such orders during the last
ProPublica reports that Trump’s Deportation Campaign Has Harmed Scores of Kids With Tear Gas, Pepper Spray. Their coverage begins with emotional videos of kids dealing with the aftereffects of tear gas–crying, scared, and trying to breathe. ProPublica details the stories of kids injured while walking to school as
NPR reports on mariachi brothers Antonio, Caleb and Joshua Gámez-Cuéllar, who are living a dream shared by five generations of their musical family. But their journey to this point wasn't smooth. Federal immigration authorities detained the young brothers and their parents earlier this year after a required check-in
Immigrant workers in Napa County’s wine and hospitality industry account for about $1.5 billion, or 11 percent, of the county’s total economic output annually, according to a new Migration Policy Institute report. The report, Rooted in the Valley: Immigrants in Napa County's Communities and Economy,
The Associated Press reports that a "new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research . . . finds about 6 in 10 say the country used to be a great place for immigrants but is not anymore. About one-third of U.S. adults — and more than half of Hispanic