New for Documented At last night's #nycmayordebate, immigration took center stage Andrew Cuomo looked frazzeled & called Zohran Kwame Mamdani a "terrorist sympathizer" Mamdani was calm, cool, collected & ready for City Hall Curtis Sliwa was a New Yorker documentedny.com/2025/10/17/cuo…

ICYMI: In the morning hours while you were all sleeping, Houston Police arrested several people at a tense demonstration over the rainbow crosswalk removal in Montrose. Protestors sat in the crosswalk and refused to leave —until HPD removed them. chron.com/culture/articl…

ICE’s actions in NY have largely been confined to Federal Plaza, where the audience is limited and contained. If they do large scale, public operations on city streets the with hundreds of passersby, the confrontations and escalations will be unlike anything we’ve seen so far

A Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks & missing limbs showing up in its territory nytimes.com/2025/10/23/wor…

The Forest Service says it protects wildfire fighters from cancer-causing smoke by rotating them when the air turns toxic. But it never actually measures what they're breathing in. So we did — and found crews left for whole shifts in air so poisonous it was off every chart.

MUST READ: One county is sending more kids than any other to youth prisons in Texas — Tarrant County — and 70% of them are Black. So much more information in this story from Alex Nguyễn Texas Tribune. texastribune.org/2025/10/28/tar…

“Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer,” said Charles Tiefer, a leading authority on federal contract law. Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts propublica.org/article/kristi…

🚩UPDATE: Joel Camas, the Gotham Collaborative High School student detained at a routine ICE check-in, has been ordered released after nearly a month in custody. documentedny.com/2025/11/17/bro…

Last week, we wrote about DHS agents being pulled off child exploitation + terrorism investigations to arrest undocumented immigrants. Now we've seen internal data showing drop in drug + weapons cases. - Drug arrests ↓ 11% - New drug cases ↓ 15% - Weapons seizures ↓ 73%

The The New York Times reported this was coming nearly 2 weeks ago: nytimes.com/2025/11/14/us/…

It’s so so awful. Whether or not you wanted the National guard in Washington, the members themselves have been constantly kind and professional, in my experience. RIP SPC. Beckstrom.

NEW: Seven NYC immigration judges were fired by the Trump Administration, including the Assistant Chief Immigration Judge. w/ julia malleck ✍️ for Documented documentedny.com/2025/12/01/sev…

Newlyweds Allan and Matthew went to 26 Federal Plaza together to interview for a marriage-based green card. Allan never came home. Documented documentedny.com/2025/12/02/a-n…

Mayor hardly does any media avails anymore, yet his DM of comms has managed to get two taxpayer-funded trip in just a few weeks (I guess travel is a new part of the job description.)

NYPD Violated Sanctuary City Law in Fielding Federal Intel on Immigrants, Probe Finds thecity.nyc/2025/12/03/hom… via THE CITY

There is a lot happening but don't lose track of this ICE effort:

Chell, NYPD's controversial ex-chief of department who recently retired with a disability pension, is celebrating Mamdani's retention of Jessica Tisch and seems to make a threatening remark about siccing the SRG (which Mamdani has vowed to abolish) on a person critical of Tisch.

Somali Minnesotans generate at least $500 million in income annually and pay about $67 million in state and local taxes. kstp.com/kstp-news/top-…

Matthew and Allan Marrero went to 26 Federal Plaza together to interview for a marriage-based green card. Allan never came home. documentedny.com/2025/12/02/a-n…

Matthew y Allan Marrero acudieron juntos a 26 Federal Plaza (Manhattan) para la entrevista de la green card por matrimonio. Sin embargo, allí, Allan fue detenido por agentes de ICE de manera inmediata. ✍️ Escribe: Eileen Grench, OLY para Documented refugiolatinoamericano.com/internacionale…