Week of June 10–16, 2026

President Trump signed the $70 billion immigration and border security funding measure into law, ending the congressional stalemate that had kept part of the government shut for four months.

The law funds Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which receives $38 billion, along with other Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection accounts, through September 2029. That covers the remainder of the president's term.

Senate Republicans used budget reconciliation to pass the bill with a simple majority after negotiations with Democrats collapsed. Democrats had sought limits on immigration enforcement authority in exchange for funding, demands that followed the fatal shooting of two people protesting ICE tactics in Minneapolis in January. At the signing, Trump praised Republicans for refusing those conditions.

Source: Politico

Volker Türk, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, called for a “massive rethink” of immigration policies, particularly in the United States, on the eve of the World Cup. He cited racial profiling, surveillance and immigration enforcement.

The 48-nation tournament runs 39 days across North America. Iran's team moved its training camp from Arizona to Mexico, and some Iranian officials were denied U.S. visas. A leading referee from Somalia was refused entry in Miami, and images circulated of a Senegal player being frisked by a security guard on an airport tarmac.

Türk said he hoped these issues would not shape the tournament.

Source: AP News

Immigration arrests in Florida have risen sharply, driven by hundreds of state and local agencies that have signed agreements to help federal enforcement, an Associated Press review found.

In one case in March, a Florida Fish and Wildlife officer approached a Guatemalan couple walking their dog in a park in Bonita Springs, asked the husband for identification, and arrested him in the parking lot. His wife, who spoke on condition of anonymity because both have pending asylum cases, said the officer claimed the dog had bitten him although he never left his car, then waited about 40 minutes for ICE officers to arrive.

The pattern contrasts with Democratic-led sanctuary jurisdictions, where the enforcement campaign has met organized resistance.

Source: AP News

A New York judge found Brad Lander, the former city comptroller and now a congressional candidate, not guilty of misdemeanor charges arising from an attempt in September to inspect an immigration holding facility in Manhattan.

Lander was accused of unreasonably obstructing use of the elevator lobby at 26 Federal Plaza. He and 75 other people, including nearly a dozen elected officials, were arrested there as they tried to see conditions for people held in immigration detention in the building. The group acted after a federal judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security and ICE to improve those conditions.

The one-day bench trial was held the previous day. Lander said he would keep pressing for detainees to have the same access to law that he had at trial.

Source: NBC News

South Omaha's business district has not recovered from the raid last June in which federal agents detained 76 workers at the Glenn Valley Foods meatpacking plant, city officials and community leaders said.

Federal authorities described the operation at the time as uncovering massive identity theft, accusing workers of using stolen Social Security numbers. A year later, one woman has been charged with those crimes. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year in prison.

Forty business owners surveyed by the Nebraska Hispanic Chamber of Commerce said fear and misinformation about enforcement have changed customer behavior enough to hold back recovery along the mainly Latino 24th Street corridor. “If they're meant to make our community safer, they're not doing that,” said county commission chairman Roger Garcia.

Source: NBC News

Governor Greg Abbott told delegates at the Texas Republican convention in Houston that he intends to press for restrictions on H-1B visas in the next legislative session, alongside a hard line on immigration generally.

Speaking at the George R. Brown Convention Center, Abbott previewed a midterm message tying Democrats to what he called Bernie Sanders socialism, and cast the party's Senate nominee, Representative James Talarico, in those terms. He also backed closing Republican primaries to registered party members and banning local governments from hiring lobbyists.

Several Republican-led states have already limited H-1B hiring at public universities, and Abbott previously ordered state agencies and universities to pause new H-1B hires through May 2027.

Source: The Texas Tribune

District judges in Texas and Louisiana have ordered bond hearings or release for ICE detainees more than 1,200 times since the Fifth Circuit endorsed the agency's no-bond detention policy on February 6, according to a Politico analysis.

That ruling was binding on judges in a circuit holding a large share of the detained population, and the administration treated it as a decisive win. Because the appeals court foreclosed the argument that the policy violates the statute, district judges have instead found that it violates detainees' constitutional due process rights, a question the Fifth Circuit did not address.

Those rulings account for nearly 60 percent of immigration detention decisions in the circuit since February. The Fifth Circuit is now considering the due process question.

Source: Politico

Immigration Judge Andrew Fishkin granted asylum to a 56-year-old California woman who was orphaned in Iran in the 1970s and adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran. Immigration officials had threatened to deport her to Iran, with which the United States is now at war.

She has lived in the country since infancy and has no criminal record, but was never granted citizenship because of gaps between adoption and immigration law that left thousands of international adoptees without status. She was monitored with an ankle bracelet during the proceedings.

The Associated Press is not naming her because the government may still appeal; a federal judge allowed her to litigate under a pseudonym.

Source: Los Angeles Times

The justices agreed to decide whether people held by ICE for prolonged periods under mandatory detention eventually become entitled to a bond hearing at which an immigration judge weighs danger to the public and flight risk.

Federal law requires detention of people facing deportation who have been convicted of or arrested for certain serious crimes, a list expanded early in the administration by the Laken Riley Act. Lower courts have split sharply on whether any due process right to a hearing exists and, if so, when detention becomes unconstitutionally prolonged.

The court addressed a related question 25 years ago in Zadvydas v. Davis, holding detention presumptively reasonable for about six months after a final removal order.

Source: Politico

The Justice and Homeland Security departments announced charges against 15 people in Minnesota, including conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers, assault on a federal officer and destruction of government property.

The charges arise from demonstrations earlier this year against the immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis and surrounding areas. Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen said the defendants used vehicles and blocks of ice to obstruct agents' vehicles outside a federal detention center and carried homemade shields of plastic, wood and metal to resist officers.

“The conspiracy was not to interfere by their voice, but to do it by force,” Rosen said, adding that whether anyone was actually injured does not determine whether a federal crime occurred. Protests broke out at the St. Paul federal building after the announcement.

Source: NBC News