“House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan said Tuesday he is negotiating with a key GOP holdout in hopes of drafting an immigration bill that can help unlock the ongoing floor impasse,” Politico reports.
“Jordan (R-OH) said he is speaking with Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who is leading a block of hard-line conservatives who are upset GOP leaders have not yet called up a vote on a tough immigration and border crackdown.”
“Protestors swarmed Sen. Susan Collins’ district office in Maine on Monday, chanting ‘vote her out!’ and ‘ICE out now!’ hours after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents killed a man they said was using his vehicle as a weapon against them,” NOTUS reports.
Mother Jones: Colombian immigrant in Maine reportedly killed by ICE agents.
“The Pentagon has spent at least $2.64 billion on operations at the southwest border with Mexico, according to Congress’s audit agency in the most comprehensive cost accounting yet of the military’s expanded role in immigration enforcement,” Bloomberg reports.
“A person was killed Monday in an ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine, according to the state’s speaker of the house — just days after a federal immigration officer fatally shot a Mexican immigrant during a traffic stop in Houston, sparking mass protests and demands for transparency and accountability,” CNN reports.
Reuters: Person killed in ICE-involved shooting in Maine, media reports.
“The Homeland Security Department told employers on Friday that they must let go in coming weeks the hundreds of thousands of foreign workers who have been allowed to live in the United States through a humanitarian program the Trump administration has sought to dismantle,” the New York Times reports.
“The work permits of Haitians with Temporary Protected Status will expire on July 24. Such permits will also lapse on July 17 for those from Ethiopia, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen, according to notices issued for each affected country by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which oversees the legal immigration system.”
PBS: What’s next for immigrants with TPS status after Supreme Court ruling?
“The U.S. government is moving ahead with plans to create its own fleet of government-owned aircraft to bolster deportations,” Bloomberg reports.
“The Department of Homeland Security is beginning a search for a company to operate planes that would help carry out deportation flights, respond to emergencies and transport senior officials. The department asked aviation companies this week to describe how they would operate and maintain the fleet, which would include two C-37B or equivalent Gulfstream 650ERs and seven Boeing 737-700s or similar models.”
“The end of U.S. work authorizations for hundreds of thousands of Haitians is threatening to leave short-staffed nursing homes, hospitals and home-care agencies with even fewer caregivers,” Bloomberg reports.
“Employment permits for more than 350,000 people covered by Temporary Protected Status could begin expiring Friday after last month’s Supreme Court ruling allowed the Trump administration to end programs for Haitian and Syrian nationals. The exact timeline may depend on further action by immigration authorities and courts, but employers have little choice but to begin removing affected workers from their payrolls.”
The Guardian: Trump immigration cuts could worsen U.S. caregiver shortage, experts say.
“The three men who were arrested during an immigration operation that resulted in the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo said a federal officer fired at them almost immediately after exiting his vehicle and that at no point did the driver veer in his direction,” the Washington Post reports.
“The migrants are disputing key elements of the Department of Homeland Security’s account of what transpired during a chaotic traffic stop in a predominantly Mexican American neighborhood in Houston on Tuesday.”
“Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person,” the New York Times reports.
“The targets of the ICE investigation were two people from Guatemala, one of whom the agents believed was in a white van being driven by the man, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.”
“Speaker Mike Johnson is exploring whether to put legislation on the House floor that would end the ability of pregnant women to enter the United States legally to gain citizenship for their children,” Politico reports.
“The possible vote would be a way for Johnson to appease hard-liners who are demanding a vote to end birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court ruled against Trump administration efforts to undermine it.”
“House passage of a measure to crack down the practice would be largely symbolic, as it stands no chance of overcoming the Senate filibuster.”
“An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a Mexican immigrant in Houston on Tuesday during an attempted traffic stop arrest,” the Washington Post reports.
“Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he is working on a ‘legislative fix’ that would counter the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that upheld birthright citizenship — a ruling that rejected President Donald Trump’s argument against it and angered many Republicans,” Mediaite reports.
Said Johnson: “We do need to address the ruling… We’re looking at all angles. If there’s some legislative fix, we’ll advance that immediately; if it’s a constitutional amendment, as you know, it takes a little more time. But we’ve got to address this — it really is a serious, serious issue.”
“Pope Leo has used his first key address to his home country to praise the U.S. history of welcoming migrants, urging Americans to live up to the ideals put forward in the Declaration of Independence,” The Guardian reports.
“In his latest implicit rebuke to Donald Trump, the first U.S. leader of the Roman Catholic church said the word ‘America’ had become a ‘byword for freedom’ across the world because of the way the country welcomed migrants.”
“New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani argued a true celebration of patriotism should confront both the nation’s ideals and its flaws, in a speech Friday on the eve of America’s 250th birthday,” CNN reports.
“The speech, meant to contrast to President Donald Trump’s planned remarks at Mount Rushmore, was steeped in symbolism and centered immigration as its primary theme. A naturalized citizen born in Uganda to parents of Indian-origin, Mamdani sat behind a desk used by George Washington, with naturalized immigrants standing around him holding American flags.”
CBS News: Mamdani discusses American exceptionalism and “forces of division” in America 250 speech.
“Federal immigration officials have detained more than 10,000 people in the last five days, a major surge that has stemmed from a push within Immigration and Customs Enforcement to increase arrest rates,” the New York Times reports.
Fox News: ICE surges enforcement.
“After losing the birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court, President Trump’s aides and MAGA allies quickly pivoted to a new plan: blocking pregnant foreign women from entering the United States,” Axios reports.
“The proposal would open a new immigration battle over pregnancy, travel and citizenship, shifting the conversation from challenging the rights of children born in the U.S. to restricting who can enter the country.”
Stephen Miller said the United States should “take a hard look at” banning pregnant visitors from the country in a bid to end birth tourism, Mediaite reports.
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
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