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.
Around the U.S.
These students are scared. Friends and teachers are their protectors.
Sometimes, they offer a place to stay to immigrant children. Other times, they provide help navigating the legal system. They have become part of the resistance. –The New York Times
How Trump’s Chicago immigration crackdown escalated, in 10 videos:
The federal campaign to ramp up immigration enforcement in the Chicago area has created fear and inflamed tensions. –The New York Times
How immigration enforcement turned sleepy Broadview, Illinois, into a chaotic, militarized town:
An intensive immigration operation ordered by President Donald Trump has quickly transformed Broadview into the center of resistance to ICE. –NBC News; The Washington Post
‘Everyone is welcome, except ICE’: Cafes and restaurants across Chicago put up signs barring immigration agents:
Business owners are searching for ways to support and protect their staff. –The Chicago Tribune
Amid immigration uncertainty, Haitians send billions home to keep family, country afloat:
Despite Trump’s aggressive push to end temporary protections for migrants, Haitian nationals are continuing to send home billions of dollars in remittances. –The Miami Herald
New York
‘They treated us like animals’: inside the epicentre of deportations in New York City:
While many of the detentions at 26 Federal Plaza are swift and non-violent, reporters and lawyers have witnessed several chaotic episodes in recent weeks. –BBC
New York’s biggest ICE detention center bans book deliveries:
Rejected books at the Buffalo ICE facility include a Spanish-English dictionary and a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel. –New York Focus
Washington D.C.
ICE’s use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment:
In a recent event, officers allegedly straitjacketed already-shackled men in full-body restraint suits, then loaded them onto a plane for the 16-hour-flight to West Africa. –The Associated Press
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him:
The 64-year-old U.S. permanent resident who had moved to the U.S. from India at just nine months old had spent nearly his entire adult life behind bars for a murder he did not commit. –The Miami Herald; India Today
ICE sends more migrants to Guantánamo Bay, resuming operations:
The offshore holding sites had been empty since Oct. 1. The nationalities of the new arrivals were not immediately known. –The New York Times
Feeling hopeless in custody, many drop claims to remain in the US, leave voluntarily:
Trump and his allies are counting on “self-deportation,” the idea that life can be made unbearable enough to make people leave voluntarily. –The Associated Press
Trump’s visa fee sparks rare bipartisan interest in immigration legislation:
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Lawmakers have been trying to pass legislative fixes for the H-1B program for years. –Politico
Mali imposes retaliatory visa bond fees on U.S. travellers:
The measure comes after the U.S. added Mali to its list of African countries requiring visitors to post bonds of $5,000 and $10,000. –Al Jazeera
