“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.

“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.”

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“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.

“The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, reaffirming the constitutional guarantees that nearly all children born on U.S. soil are citizens,” the New York Times reports.

“The ruling puts the court in line with the views of a majority of Americans, with 55 percent saying they oppose ending birthright citizenship in a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken last week.”

“That support is largely driven by Democrats, 72 percent of whom oppose ending birthright citizenship. They are joined by more than half of political independents, and a sizable 38 percent of Republicans who want to protect the right.”