Wall Street Journal: “The House passed a bipartisan measure Thursday that would reinstate temporary legal protections for Haitian immigrants living in the U.S., with 11 members of the Republican conference breaking with the Trump administration to side with Democrats on the measure.”
“The 224-204 vote marks a rare GOP rebuke of President Trump’s agenda.”
“Banks in the U.S. may not like the idea of being forced to collect citizenship data on customers, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says they better be prepared for the task,” CNBC reports.
Said Bessent: “If Treasury and the banking regulators say it’s their job, it’s their job.”
New York Times: “A federal appeals court on Tuesday put a halt to an extraordinary contempt investigation by a federal judge over whether the Trump administration had violated his order to stop flights of Venezuelan immigrants from being sent to El Salvador last year.”
“The decision was the most forceful move yet by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to shut down a nearly yearlong effort by James E. Boasberg, the chief federal district judge in Washington, that had become a major flashpoint in President Trump’s battles with the judiciary over his attempts to push the limits of his power.”
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“Some conservatives say President Trump is flirting with betraying his biggest campaign promise on mass deportations — and the voters who put him there,” Axios reports.
“The White House is backing away from mass deportation rhetoric ahead of the midterms, infuriating the once-fringe immigration hardliners who considered Trump their last shot at reversing decades of mass migration.”
“Republicans are debating how far to go on their forthcoming party-line spending bill to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement for the rest of his presidency,” Semafor reports.
“Some Republican senators want to fund the entire Department of Homeland Security for three years to avoid another shutdown after this 53-day-and-counting lapse; however, a narrower bill focusing on ICE and CBP would be easier to pass.”
The New York Times has obtained video of an incident in Minneapolis during which an ICE agent shot a fleeing Venezuelan immigrant and then claimed he had been attacked.
“The video contradicts the agent’s claim that three assailants had beaten him with a shovel and broom for roughly three minutes before he opened fire. Instead, the confrontation depicted in the video lasts about 12 seconds and shows two men struggling with the agent. It shows no sustained attack with a shovel.”
NOTUS: “President Donald Trump asked Congress for funds to massively increase detention of immigrant families, proposing an expansion to up to 30,000 beds.”
New York Times: “A coalition of legal groups on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, saying the agency had allowed federal immigration agents to routinely enter homes to carry out searches and arrests in violation of the Fourth Amendment.”
New York Times: “If President Trump succeeds in eliminating universal birthright citizenship, there could be 6.4 million U.S.-born children without legal status by 2050, according to a new study.”
“In addition to affecting undocumented immigrants in the country, the authors say, that change would have a disproportionate effect on Asians who are in the country lawfully.”
CBS News: “The Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to weigh whether President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship withstands constitutional and legal muster, a case that tests a key aspect of the president’s second-term immigration agenda.”
New York Times: “The national fight over immigration landed without warning last month in Texas’ Big Bend region, a remote stretch of inhospitable terrain that runs for hundreds of miles along the U.S.-Mexico border.”
“Despite President Trump’s vow to complete a border wall along the southern frontier, the plan shocked West Texas. It also unnerved Republicans and Democrats across the state who wondered why the federal government would spend billions to build a wall through an area so remote.”
“But for the state’s Republican leaders, the border wall plan presented a political predicament. While none have spoken in favor of a physical wall, public opposition could risk inflaming the Trump administration and alienating voters who prize border security.”
A new PRRI poll shows that public support for President Trump’s anti-immigration agenda has cratered.
Just over one-third of Americans — 35% — rate Trump’s handling of immigration favorably, compared with 61% who rate his actions unfavorably.
And nearly half — 48% — of Americans hold very unfavorable views of his handling of immigration.
New York Times: “Mr. Bovino’s actions left a trail of litigation, condemnations from local politicians and accusations of discrimination and unconstitutional conduct.”
“And, yes, the Commander has a few regrets. But he does not think he went too far. He thinks he did not go far enough.”
A New Jersey Democratic state lawmaker is facing a complaint from one of her Republican colleagues over an expletive laced into the title of a bill that targets U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the New Jersey Monitor reports.
The bill in question is the “Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered Act,” introduced last month.
New York Times: “The Trump administration began deportation proceedings for 34 former members of the military over the past year, after immigration authorities were directed to ignore previous guidance that gave service members and their relatives more deference.”
“The 34 are among 125 former service members who were arrested over immigration violations over the past year… Officials also placed 248 relatives of former military members into deportation proceedings.”
A new CBS News Poll shows President Trump upside-down by 10 points on immigration, with only 45% approving and 55% disapproving.
Border Czar Tom Homan said that ICE agents will deploy to airports on Monday to help ease security lines amid the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, CNBC reports.
Washington Post: “The Trump administration is building hundreds of miles of border wall through iconic national parks, public lands and ecologically sensitive wilderness, empowered by provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill that provided $46.5 billion in funding and a 2005 law that waived dozens of environmental rules for border security projects.”
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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