“The Justice Department moved to strip 17 individuals of their citizenship for “serious offenses,” filing denaturalization actions in U.S. district courts around the country,” NOTUS reports.

“Trump administration officials say the immigrants failed to disclose unlawful behavior during their naturalization proceedings.”

“A federal judge on Monday invalidated the Trump administration’s new fees for H-1B visas, saying officials overreached in applying a $100,000 charge for new applicants to the program for foreign professionals,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Bloomberg: “The Trump administration has drawn up a plan to surge U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel to New York City, a move that threatens to escalate tensions with New York Governor Kathy Hochul over the president’s migrant crackdown.”

“President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said Monday he’d warned Hochul of the surge before she signed a bill late last month curbing operations and banning masked ICE agents in her state.”

Said Homan: “You’re going to see more ICE than you’ve ever seen in New York City, and it’s coming. I just reviewed an operational plan. I’m not going to tell you exactly when it’s going to happen, but it’s coming.”

“The Trump administration on Monday plans to announce it is seeking to revoke the citizenship of 17 U.S. citizens accused of immigration fraud, expanding its unprecedented denaturalization campaign, CBS News reports.

New York Times: “A day after a federal judge struck down Trump administration policies that had frozen applications for many immigrants seeking to stay in the country, there was renewed hope that a six-month logjam might be easing.”

“There are more than a million backlogged applications for citizenship, green cards, work permits and asylum. When those applications would move forward, however, was uncertain.”

New York Times: “Federal officials have quietly begun fast-tracking cases through immigration courts, pushing dozens of additional cases onto the dockets on certain days in an effort to more quickly process asylum and other claims.”

“The fast-tracking, which is also intended to increase the pace of deportations, started without any formal notification or announcement from the Trump administration.”

A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday struck down a slate of immigration policies enacted by the Trump administration, writing that it had left immigrants living in the United States in “indeterminate legal limbo” because of “anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making,” the New York Times reports. 

Washington Post: “As the number of immigrants dying in government custody rises, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is shrinking the scope of which deaths it will be required to report.”

Senate Republicans passed a party-line bill to fund ICE and CBP until the end of President Trump’s term after months of legislative wrangling, Punchbowl News reports.

The bill passed 52-47 after an overnight vote-a-rama filled with failed amendments to prevent Trump from setting up an “anti-weaponization” fund. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) voted no.

The House left town for the week. They will try to pass the reconciliation bill next week.

CNN: “President Donald Trump is fighting back against states that refuse to aid his immigration agenda after a wave of court losses, with a series of new lawsuits that tee up untested legal questions about the power of state and federal governments.”

“The Justice Department last week filed four lawsuits against states that have refused to approve unmarked license plates for the cars of federal immigration agents.”

New York Times: “Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey said Wednesday that federal immigration officials were continuing to bar her from entering a detention center in Newark, raising ‘serious questions about what is happening behind its walls.'”

“Ms. Sherrill noted that she had met Tuesday evening with relatives of migrants being held at the Delaney Hall detention center, which has become a focal point of protest against President Trump’s immigration crackdown. She said that the relatives had shared ‘heartbreaking reports of unsafe, inhumane and unconstitutional conditions’ inside the 1,000-bed jail.”

“Markwayne Mullin, the Department of Homeland Security secretary, told lawmakers on Wednesday that his agency would be increasing the training requirements for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to their previous level starting this summer,” the New York Times reports.

New York Times: “For more than a year, administration officials have sought to pull every bureaucratic lever possible to cut off immigrants — both documented and undocumented — from jobs, medical care, financial services, tax credits and even from enrolling their children in day care. The goal has been to compel immigrants to leave the country, and, in the long run, to eliminate incentives that draw many people to the United States in the first place.”

“The initiative underscores the president’s ability to reshape immigration policy through executive orders and the vast power of federal regulations while sidestepping Congress. And it shows how the administration has pursued more creative — and lower-profile — tactics after Mr. Trump’s militarized deportation raids into major cities prompted political backlash earlier this year.”

Semafor: “Senate Republicans are still seeking reassurances from the White House on guardrails for President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion fund to compensate people allegedly victimized by the government — and they can’t advance their immigration enforcement bill without an answer.”

“Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended conditions at a migrant detention center in New Jersey that was the scene of weekend protests in which two people were arrested and US Senator Andy Kim was hit with a cloud of pepper spray,” Bloomberg reports. 

The Telegraph: “All but three of the 6,069 refugees taken in by the United States since October are White South Africans.”

Bloomberg: “The U.S. Supreme Court refused to let Florida file an unusual lawsuit that accused California and Washington of making it too easy for undocumented immigrants to get commercial driver’s licenses.”

“Giving no explanation, the justices on Tuesday rejected Florida’s bid to sue its fellow states directly in the Supreme Court, as states can do under some circumstances to protect their sovereign interests.”