Week of July 22–28, 2026

A study from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, published Wednesday with Inclusive Action for the City, found 46,000 fewer customer visits at formal businesses within half a mile of nine Los Angeles County enforcement sites and about $3.16 million in lost revenue in the two weeks after the June 2025 raids.

Extrapolated countywide, the authors estimate a month of sustained enforcement could cost up to $114 million. The report combines commercial activity data with interviews with 75 Latino entrepreneurs.

A swap meet vendor said weekend earnings fell from as much as $1,500 to $500. A restaurant owner lost $20,000 in canceled catering contracts. Amada Armenta, the institute’s director and a co-author, said Latino businesses have not recovered and function as local economic engines that employ neighbors and buy from local suppliers.

Source: Los Angeles Times

ICE told House committee members in a closed-door briefing that it has received 56 complaints of excessive force against its officers. Thirty-two were cleared and one was referred for disciplinary action, with no discipline yet imposed. The rest remain under investigation.

Representative Seth Magaziner of Rhode Island, who described the briefing, said it “defies belief” that an agency of more than 20,000 officers would find only one possible use-of-force violation given the past year and a half.

The briefing followed fatal shootings by ICE officers in Maine and Houston within a week. At least 10 people have died in encounters with immigration agents since the crackdown began. Homeland Security said officers who violate policy are held accountable and are trained in de-escalation.

Source: AP News

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied a government request that would have ended Temporary Protected Status for Haitians on Friday, meaning the protections cannot be terminated before July 27.

The administration had asked the appeals court to lift a stay entered by U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, who had blocked the termination affecting roughly 350,000 Haitians in the United States. The court refused.

Last month the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against five Haitian plaintiffs who argued the termination was racially discriminatory, holding that DHS determinations on TPS are not subject to judicial review. Their lawyers preserved a narrow constitutional challenge and said they would tell Reyes by July 31 whether they will file an amended complaint. The three-day delay gives families more time to make arrangements.

Source: Miami Herald

Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show that 44 Texas public universities, health centers and system offices reported sponsoring 3,332 H-1B workers to the Texas Workforce Commission, including 277 at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The institutions had to report the figures under Governor Greg Abbott’s January 27 directive restricting public institutions’ use of the program.

The records do not show whether the policy has disrupted research, trials or patient care. Lore Gruenbaum, chief scientific officer at Blood Cancer United, said such restrictions send a chilling message to foreign-born researchers, and estimated that foreign-born students make up more than 40 percent of biomedical graduate students and at least half of postdoctoral trainees.

The governor’s office pointed to the directive, which Abbott said is needed to protect Texas workers.

Source: The Texas Tribune

ICE released detention data showing more than 43,000 people were booked into detention nationwide in June, the highest monthly figure since the start of the current administration and about 2 percent above the prior record of 42,107 in December.

People without criminal records make up 74 percent of the average daily population in California detention centers and 79 percent nationwide. Between October and June, 356,389 people were deported, compared with 319,980 in the previous 12 months.

The agency published the figures Monday after a delay of several months. Congress requires publication every two weeks, and ICE had not posted data since early April. A spokesperson attributed the gap to the 76-day partial government shutdown that closed DHS until early May.

Source: Los Angeles Times

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that the U.S. Marshals Service lacks the authority and the required training to arrest or detain criminal defendants in Washington, D.C.’s local courts for suspected civil immigration violations.

The case began with a man identified as N.S., whom marshals held on an ICE detainer in January 2020 after a D.C. judge ordered his release following a criminal court appearance. It became a class action challenging the practice.

A 2021 injunction barring the practice was later vacated by the D.C. Circuit after a Supreme Court decision limited classwide injunctions in certain immigration cases, but the appeals court agreed the marshals lacked authority because they had not completed the training federal regulations require. The administration has drawn on the FBI, DEA and Marshals Service to support ICE arrests.

Source: Newsweek

The First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston declined on Friday to stay a lower court ruling that struck down the $100,000 fee on new H-1B petitions, finding the government had not shown it was likely to succeed on appeal. The fee stays blocked while the case proceeds.

The June 8 ruling came in a suit brought by 20 Democratic attorneys general. The district judge concluded the payment functioned more like a tax than an administrative fee, which would require congressional authorization.

Employers that sponsor H-1B workers, including technology companies, hospitals and universities, continue to operate under the previous cost structure. Prospective H-1B workers applying from abroad had faced the largest increase under the policy.

Source: Newsweek

Tom Homan, the White House border czar, said Sunday that the vetting of ICE officer David Brouillette is under internal affairs review after relatives told the Associated Press he had a history of serious mental health problems and violent behavior. Brouillette shot and killed a Colombian national in Biddeford, Maine.

“If the allegations are true, I don’t think he should ever have cleared vetting,” Homan said on CNN, adding that training is also being reviewed.

Homan said acting ICE Director David Venturella has issued a directive requiring body-worn cameras during vehicle stops. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had paused vehicle stops after the shooting, but the president reversed that almost immediately and directed that they resume.

Source: AP News

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced an interim final rule Monday eliminating the requirement that asylum officers interview certain applicants, referring them instead directly to immigration judges for removal proceedings. The rule took effect Tuesday and is open for public comment for 60 days.

The agency estimates up to 444,000 cases could be affected. A case may cover an individual or a family, so the number of people involved is larger. USCIS says the change will reduce a backlog of 1.4 million asylum cases.

Director Joseph Edlow said the asylum system has been used for delay and work authorization rather than genuine protection claims. Advocates say the change exposes people who applied affirmatively, often after entering lawfully on a visa, to detention and deportation without reducing the court backlog.

Source: Los Angeles Times

Body camera footage and recovered text messages described in a motion filed Monday show immigration agents in Los Angeles using slurs including “tonk” and “wet” to refer to Latinos. After a June 2025 raid at a Hollywood Home Depot, an agent was recorded saying of a man in a minivan, “I’m pretty sure he’s wet.” A text chain referred to “tonks everywhere selling food.”

The material appears in a preliminary injunction motion filed by the ACLU, Public Counsel and other groups seeking to bar what they call an ongoing campaign of suspicionless and discriminatory stops in the Central District of California.

Mayra Joachín of the ACLU of Southern California said the language shows racist sentiment driving operations, and noted that not all phone records have been turned over.

Source: Los Angeles Times

Dr. Muthusamy Anandkumar, appointed in March to monitor the California City Immigration Processing Center, reported that the facility “lacks a reliable system to consistently provide adequate health care, placing individuals at serious risk of both immediate and long-term harm.”

He identified 13 areas of deficiency in the healthcare program run by CoreCivic, including emergency care, dental care, chronic disease management and timely access to prescribed medication. Detainees described missed medications and months-long delays for cancer treatment.

Anandkumar attributed the problems to staffing, management and oversight rather than individual clinicians, noting that staff were pulled from training to cover shifts so that partially trained employees were training new hires. The federal government bought the facility this month and CoreCivic continues to operate it.

Source: CalMatters

The 25-day window for the administration to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its birthright citizenship decision closed Tuesday with nothing filed on the docket. The president had said a week after the ruling that he would seek a rehearing immediately.

The June decision was 6-3 and struck down the executive order denying automatic citizenship to children born in the United States to parents present illegally or temporarily. Lower courts had blocked the order, which never took effect anywhere in the country.

Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas would have upheld the order. Justice Brett Kavanaugh concluded it did not violate the Constitution but did conflict with federal law. The court has not agreed to rehear an argued case in more than 50 years.

Source: AP News