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Thanks for joining us for another week of the Immigration Daybook pilot. Check out and share this Instagram post, built from primary sources in yesterday's newsletter. We were a little late already and then our AI production system started garbling the upcoming section. That section will be back on Monday. All mistakes my own. —David A third death at Delaney Hall surfaces weeks after it happened
The New Jersey Globe reported Wednesday that a Guatemalan man held at the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, died after a seizure-like medical emergency — a death DHS never disclosed because, the agency says, it was not notified that he died after being released from custody. Jose Chajon-Raxon was processed into the facility on July 18, had a seizure the next day and was hospitalized. ICE released him from custody on July 22, before he died. DHS has not said when he died. New Jersey Globe, AP, NBC News
Chajon-Raxon is the third person to die after being detained at Delaney Hall, and is a different man from Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, the Salvadoran who died in custody two weeks ago. The belatedly acknowledged death adds pressure to New Jersey's civil-rights investigation into the facility, which now spans both how people are treated inside Delaney Hall and who answers for them once they are moved to a hospital. The City Reporter, The Guardian, Jersey Vindicator
Rep. LaMonica McIver called the pattern of deaths "plain as day," and Reps. Ritchie Torres and George Latimer introduced the Families Deserve to Know Act, which would require ICE to notify families of deaths, hospitalizations and medical emergencies in custody. The practical stake is visibility: if deaths that follow a release are never counted or reported, the harm linked to detention disappears from the public record. U.S. House, Univision
Behind the "worst of the worst" framing, the people actually held at Delaney Hall tell a different story. In a May data profile of the facility, Syracuse University researcher Austin Kocher found that 88.3% of the people held there had no criminal conviction and 70.5% had no criminal history at all. The share with any conviction — 11.7% — ran well below the national detention average of 29%, and across all 10,311 people who had passed through since Delaney Hall reopened, just 12.1% had any conviction. Austin Kocher A federal appeals court dismisses the lead challenge to Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act
The full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the lead lawsuit challenging President Trump's peacetime invocation of the Alien Enemies Act as moot, because the named plaintiffs had already been removed under ordinary immigration law rather than the wartime authority. The court did not decide whether the centuries-old statute can be used for immigration removals outside of war. The Supreme Court's injunction barring Alien Enemies Act removals remains in place. ACLU, The Hill
The ACLU says it has other challenges pending in courts across the country, and that the mootness dismissal of W.M.M. v. Trump turns on standing rather than ending the litigation. The path to Wednesday's ruling: a three-judge panel rejected the administration's "invasion or predatory incursion" justification in September 2025, the full court heard the case en banc in January 2026, and the Supreme Court had directed the Fifth Circuit to expedite the appeal. NBC News, Seattle Times A Los Angeles judge weighs limits on warrantless immigration arrests
A federal judge signaled she may bar immigration agents in Los Angeles from making arrests without a warrant unless they first determine the person is likely to flee. The ruling would reach a tactic central to enforcement sweeps across Southern California. The underlying lawsuit alleges discriminatory stops and arrests made without the legal findings the law requires. CalMatters, ABC7 Los Angeles
Any limit on warrantless arrests would cover people picked up at airports, courthouses and other public places, not only those encountered at home or on a job site. The dispute sits inside a wider pattern of immigration arrests made during ordinary life, raising Fourth Amendment questions courts are only beginning to address. Reason, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Salvadorans with Temporary Protected Status face a September 9 deadline
USCIS has notified Salvadorans with Temporary Protected Status that their work permits remain valid through September 9, 2026, the scheduled end of TPS for El Salvador, which affects roughly 170,000 people. The deadline falls inside a broader contraction of TPS across 13 nationalities, as households reassess jobs, remaining legal options and the risk of removal. In Ohio, people who lost protected status have been placed on ankle monitors rather than taken into detention. La Prensa Gráfica, Infobae, Univision, NBC News Colorado escalates the tuberculosis dispute at the Aurora immigration detention center
Colorado issued a new health order demanding the records, exposure information and building access state investigators say they need to finish a tuberculosis investigation at the privately run detention center in Aurora, Colorado. The order sharpens a standoff with GEO Group, the private operator under contract with ICE, pitting state public-health authority against a federal contractor. A parallel fight over tuberculosis notification is playing out at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, California. Colorado Sun, KUNC, KPBS, inewsource The Rio Grande Valley is paying the highest economic price in Texas for the deportation campaign
A new report from the immigration advocacy group America's Voice finds a 5% quarterly drop in construction jobs in the Rio Grande Valley — the worst on record — as the deportation campaign shrinks the workforce, with nearly one-fifth of ICE arrests in Texas taking place in the Valley. The report, titled "End the Ice Tax," is an advocacy group's analysis, but it draws on federal Bureau of Labor Statistics data that anyone can check independently. Those figures show prices for goods and services that depend on immigrant labor rising far faster than overall inflation: lettuce up 32.1%, whole milk up 9%, home healthcare up 10.7%. All four Rio Grande Valley border counties flipped to Trump in 2024, with Starr County going Republican for the first time in more than a century. MyRGV, San Antonio Current, America's Voice, Texas Tribune Around the system
- International students and the universities that enroll them are preparing for fixed admission periods, shorter windows to leave the country and extension requests that can interrupt study or employment. Evanston RoundTable, The PIE News, WR Immigration
- New York's new money for legal representation arrives as the end of a federal legal-services contract leaves children who arrived without a parent or guardian more likely to face deportation proceedings without a specialized attorney. Documented, Block Club Chicago
- An appeals court ruling lets the government use expedited removal against people who entered the country through humanitarian parole programs. Univision
- Massachusetts has enacted statewide limits on how public institutions may interact with federal immigration enforcement. El Mundo Boston
- Local governments are still joining — and in some places contesting — agreements that let police help enforce federal immigration law during routine duties. ICE has not updated its 287(g) roster data since July 20. NOLA.com, WUNC
- A court-approved settlement resolves migrant workers' claims that the jobs they got at a Georgia factory did not match what recruiters promised them. Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Correction: Yesterday's edition linked to an incorrect procurement notice as evidence of a no-bid contract and stated it was published August 11. You can see the correct notice here; it was published August 10.
Clarification: Yesterday's edition linked to the G.L.O.V.E. patent application; the accepted patent can be found here.
Both fixes are in the web edition.
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