Immigration News Today: Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Record So Far — High Arrests, Low Deportations

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.

Washington, D.C.

Immigration officials issue new warning to green card holders:
Green card holders have been warned that federal authorities may revoke their legal status if they have a criminal record and violate immigration laws. –Newsweek

Supreme Court won’t revive aggressive Florida immigration law:
The law, enacted this year, made it a crime for unauthorized migrants to enter the state. Challengers say immigration is a federal matter. –The New York Times 

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U.S. health department widens immigrant benefit restrictions:
The Trump administration is widening its interpretation of a law banning most immigrants living in the United States from receiving federal public benefits. —Reuters

Trump’s immigration enforcement record so far: High arrests, low deportations
ICE last month arrested the most people in at least five years, but the number of deportations paled in comparison. —NBC News

New York

New bill unveiled in Manhattan would ban ICE agents from wearing masks:
The MELT Act aims to ban ICE agents from wearing masks to conceal their identities while raiding the city for undocumented migrants. —WABC

‘They’re killing us’: Immigrants complain of inhumane conditions inside NYC holding site
Immigrants being detained in federal holding rooms in Lower Manhattan complain of being unable to bathe or change clothes, cramped conditions, and sleeping on concrete benches or the floor. –Gothamist

‘Deeply traumatic’: Report finds NYC’s child welfare agency is broken for families:
Nearly half of New York City’s Black children will be investigated by child protective services by the time they turn 18, according to a new report published in the Columbia Journal of Race and Law. –Gothamist

NYC officials rail against what they say are ICE detainment traps at immigration court:
“Everyone should be terrified about what’s happening in that courtroom, and everyone should be doing everything they can to stop it,” Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said. –CBS News

Around the U.S.

Democrats denied this city had a gang problem. The truth is complicated:
Trump’s claim that Venezuelan criminals took over Aurora, Colorado, became a rationale for his immigration crackdown, but what really happened there? –The New York Times

Amazon warehouse workers lose jobs after Trump’s immigration crackdown: ‘We have done everything legally’:
Amazon warehouse workers from countries like Haiti and Venezuela have lost their jobs due to the Trump administration’s cancellation of humanitarian immigration programs. –CNBC

2 Catholic dioceses say immigrants can skip Mass over ICE raid fears:
The rare dispensations from the dioceses of Nashville and San Bernardino, California, signal how some local Catholic officials are responding to the growing panic that immigrants feel. –Axios

Tensions escalate in San Francisco over immigration enforcement:
Videos captured a scuffle between protesters and immigration agents outside a courthouse.. –The New York Times

Detained in immigration raids, Maga mom still has faith in Trump’s mass deportation plan:A Christian Armenian Iranian mother is a devout supporter of the U.S. president – even thought  she’s now locked up as an illegal immigrant.–BBC