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238 items of 1822 · updated Oct 30, 2026, 6:10 AM ET
MN HF 4970: Transparency regarding immigrant detention flights at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport required; 2026-04-16: first reading, referred to State Government Finance and Policy.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
Resolution 26-1498 would add $957,199 to a $1,452,199 contract with Catholic Charities and Community Services to provide 108 Head Start and 20 Early Head Start slots in Denver.
Source: Legistar: 15 city and county councils (denver.legistar.com) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
MN HF 4836 would require employers to provide notice to employees of federal immigration inspection and prohibit federal immigration officers from nonpublic work areas; author Xiong added 2026-04-09.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
Minnesota HF 3659 would require taxpayers who earned Minnesota-source income while participating in immigration enforcement activities to file an income tax return; referred to Taxes.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
With ICE arrests and detentions at their highest levels, a questions feature asks how Trump's mass deportation agenda will shape the US midterm elections.
Source: The Guardian US (theguardian.com)
A Denver resolution approves a proposed contract with Volunteers of America Colorado Branch for $1,068,531.00 to provide 76 Head Start and 20 Early Head Start slots in Denver, citywide.
Source: Legistar: 15 city and county councils (denver.legistar.com) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to lift a lower court injunction that temporarily blocked border wall construction in the Big Bend Sector.
Source: CBS News (cbsnews.com)
MN HF 1383 would establish a program to assist families with the cost of child care; latest action on 2025-04-10 added authors Momanyi-Hiltsley and Pérez-Vega.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org)
Texas child care quality control measures played a role in enrollment cuts this fall, putting financial strain on the system and shutting thousands of children out of affordable care.
Source: States Newsroom (News From The States) (newsfromthestates.com)
Lawmakers are calling for the release of Maria Alejandra Valero Brinez, a pregnant woman with complications detained at Eloy Detention Center in Arizona.
Source: The 19th (19thnews.org)
US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth reportedly signed a memo permitting DHS to test the Active Denial System 'heat ray' for potential use at the US southern border.
Source: The Guardian US (theguardian.com)
A lawsuit filed in New Jersey alleges HelloFresh engaged in forced labor and discriminated against Latino employees at its Newark warehouse.
Source: Documented (documentedny.com)
The DOJ has approved nearly half as many applications for a legal aid program in 2026, and local organizations are concerned more immigrants will go without legal help in immigration court.
Source: Borderless Magazine (borderlessmag.org)
Milwaukee ordinance 260642, a substitute ordinance on zoning regulations for family day care homes, passed.
Source: Legistar: 15 city and county councils (milwaukee.legistar.com) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D., a stay order involving plans to deport undocumented persons without a hearing to third countries.
Source: SCOTUSblog (scotusblog.com)
The federal government detained and sought to deport students and academics over support for Palestine, and the Supreme Court could soon take up the cases of Mahmoud Khalil and Badar Khan Suri.
Source: SCOTUSblog (scotusblog.com)
An analysis says the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts have expelled nearly a million people through July, including voluntary returns and people turned around at the border.
Source: Stateline (stateline.org)
CA AB 1801 on approval of detention facilities by public agencies was chaptered by the Secretary of State as Chapter 743, Statutes of 2026.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
CA AB 1655, on CalWORKs temporary absence and immigration detention, was chaptered by the Secretary of State as Chapter 742, Statutes of 2026 on 2026-09-29.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
Trump asks the Supreme Court to allow border wall construction in Big Bend after a lower court judge halted the plan to erect hundreds of miles of barriers in Texas.
Source: The New York Times Politics (nytimes.com)