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197 items of 1682 · updated Oct 29, 2026, 6:00 AM ET
VT Senate adopted SR 21, a resolution relating to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Operation Metro Surge.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
Inside Climate News reports that Florida's gubernatorial race is a choice between new climate policy or the status quo: one candidate advocates renewing a climate change and clean energy strategy.
Source: Inside Climate News (insideclimatenews.org)
IL HR 622 condemns ICE excessive force; latest action on 2026-01-21 added co-sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
Rev. Edward Nalwamba spent over a year in ICE detention; at his release last week, fellow detainees had to carry him to a car because officials wouldn't let him take his wheelchair that far.
Source: Common Dreams (commondreams.org)
WI SB 493, prohibitions concerning state or local government assistance with federal immigration enforcement, failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
WI AB 862 on consideration of climate change in certain local plans and making an appropriation failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
Puerto Rico bill PC 194 on climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience (Ley 33-2019) and Alianza contracts was referred to committee on 2025-01-16.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org)
Commission does not recommend PR RKS 7, for evaluation of the Plan de Mitigación, Adaptación y Resiliencia al Cambio Climático under Ley 33-2019.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
The federal government may build a section of border wall through a South Texas wildlife refuge as the original plan stalls in court.
Source: States Newsroom (News From The States) (newsfromthestates.com)
An immigrant's death has reignited calls for the closure of a Folkston, Georgia ICE facility, where Luis Sandoval was detained and a hunger strike has been ongoing for over 2 weeks.
Source: Truthout (truthout.org)
In late August, the Trump administration flew 12 Somali immigrants to an ICE facility at Guantanamo Bay, where Sakariye Abdi Mohamed told journalist Amanda Moore it was 'just like kidnapping'.
Source: Mother Jones (motherjones.com)
DC PR 26-0820, Language Access Rulemaking Authority Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2026; Resolution R26-0521, effective from Oct 06, 2026, published in DC Register Vol 73.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
Latest action on DC B 26-0722, the Language Access Rulemaking Authority Temporary Amendment Act of 2026: Act A26-0426 published in the DC Register, Vol 73, Page 013477 on 2026-10-23.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
Advocacy groups sued the Trump administration in Massachusetts over policies they say leave refugees in legal limbo by blocking green cards and speeding up termination of lawful status.
Source: The Hill (thehill.com)
NC HB 96, Expedited Removal of Unauthorized Persons, latest action 2026-10-26: Withdrawn From Cal.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
A new lawsuit argues that Trump administration policies are robbing migrant children of due process, and lawyers accuse Trump of building a deportation assembly line for children.
Source: The Appeal (theappeal.org)
South Asian immigrant voters spoke with Documented about the midterms, Mamdani, and the issues they are thinking about this November; they cite the threat of ICE and affordability as key issues.
Source: Documented (documentedny.com)
New Mexico State University students and statewide organizers rallied against hyperscale AI data centers in Las Cruces Sunday, calling for a statewide ban against the developers.
Source: States Newsroom (News From The States) (newsfromthestates.com)
New York county jails billed US Immigration and Customs Enforcement around $20 million for detaining thousands of immigrants for the agency since early last year, according to records.
Source: Documented (documentedny.com)
The BBC reports on five ways Trump has changed immigration in the US after returning to power and promising a closed border and mass deportations.
Source: BBC News US & Canada (bbc.co.uk)