Targeting children. The Trump administration is now offering children $3,000 to voluntarily deport. Sometimes, ICE lawyers make the pitch to children. Sometimes, immigration judges do so. Bloomberg Law The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement priorities will have a profound economic impact on seniors, who will lose an average of more than $2,000 a year in Social Security benefits by 2034. The Guardian Federal immigration officials are considering using ships to transport hundreds of deportees to Central and South America. The New York Times More: The Trump adminsitration sued Denver last week over a new ordinance that bans law enforcement officers, including ICE officers, from wearing masks on duty. States Newsroom

Federal agents target a Democratic congresswoman. Federal agents affiliated with Homeland Security Investigations searched the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar in Washington, D.C. on Monday. The Minnesota Star Tribune “Make no mistake,” Omar said. “this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.” Minnesota Reformer The Democratic congresswoman has been a frequent target of President Donald Trump and his Republican allies. The Associated Press The Justice Department’s retaliatory campaign against Trump’s perceived political enemies continues to struggle. The New York Times New details about the flailing search for evidence in partisan investigations. The Wall Street Journal

Three weeks to go until the election. A federal judge on Friday struck down the Trump administration’s attempt to obtain states’ unredacted voter-roll information. The ruling affects both states that have refused to accede to the Justice Department’s attempt to use the data and states that have cooperated. Democracy Docket Related: Read the ruling. U.S. District Court, District of Columbia More: Election officials in Washington, D.C. asked National Guard officials not to station troops near ballot drop-boxes as the midterm election approaches. Photographs and video of Guard members standing next to ballot boxes last week alarmed some residents who fear the Trump administration’s authoritarian tactics. The Washington Sun

Immigration nation. ICE agents in Harrison, New Jersey seized a man last week whose family desperately tried to prevent the arrest. The episode was captured on video, alarming bystanders and local officials. NJ.com Federal immigration agents are harassing and intimidating members of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Southern Arizona in an effort to quell the tribe’s opposition to the construction of a border wall through their territory. ProPublica Texas landowners continue to fight back against the administration’s attempt to build a border wall in their communities. The Associated Press A Laotian man deported to Eswatini by U.S. agents last year was released from a maximum-security prison after spending a year behind bars there. Phone Chomsavanh was then deported from Africa to Laos. The Associated Press

“If you don't have ID, you're kind of like, you don't exist.” Arizona is one of six states with a voter identification measure on the ballot in three weeks. The initiative replicates a Trump administration effort to expand voter identification laws as a way to help prevent noncitizens from voting – even though such occurrences are extraordinarily rare. But the Arizona measure, like others, will likely suppress the votes of unhoused people who are U.S. citizens without driver’s licenses or other official forms of identification. Arizona already makes it difficult for people without permanent addresses to get driver’s licenses. TMP’s Geoff Hing has the latest edition of Closing Argument, our weekly newsletter. The Marshall Project

A man fatally shot eight people on Friday before taking his own life at his home in Erie, Pennsylvania. The Associated Press Police say the gunman was a 45-year-old grandfather who was related to seven of his victims. The Guardian

Corrections officials in Texas have appealed a federal court order requiring the state to provide air-conditioning in all units of all state prisons before 2030. State attorneys say the order will cause “chaos and confusion” within the sprawling prison system. The Texas Tribune TMP Context: Will Texas actually comply with the order? The Marshall Project

New York prosecutors urged the judge in the state murder trial of Luigi Mangione last week not to dismiss the case on double jeopardy grounds after Mangione pleaded guilty to federal charges for killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione faces a lengthy federal sentence. A ruling is expected before the end of the year. The Associated Press

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law a measure that will make it easier for people to visit their loved ones in prison without intrusive, demeaning searches. Bolts TMP Context: Strip searches are limited in Colorado. The Marshall Project

Frank Strada, the Tennessee corrections chief ousted following the second failed execution of the year in the state, had a poor record as Arizona’s top corrections official. NPR More: The state’s troubled history with executions. The Tennessean New questions about the Tennesees vague lethal injection protocols The New York Times Christa Pike is back in prison after she was released from the hospital following her failed execution. The Associated Press Confusion delayed the 911 response to the prison where Pike was being executed. The New York Times

State-sanctioned killing as entertainment. “The world’s supposedly greatest (or formerly greatest) democracy has arrived at an horrific new moral nadir.” The Guardian More: It has been about 90 years since the last public execution in America. They used to be commonplace. Parents and teachers would bring children to watch hangings in a public square. The Associated Press The Trump supporters who back a public execution. The New York Times

The Cornell Seven. “Tell your daughter, if you must, not to take ketamine with strangers or agree to a threesome in a frat house. But tell your son this, too: Don’t send messages to the group chat offering a drunk woman like a box of doughnuts. Don’t turn up to a frat-house room expecting anal sex with a woman you’re meeting for the first time, when she is already surrounded by other men. Jane Doe transgressed against historical standards of purity for women. The men at Chi Phi broke a code of human decency that ought to be eternal.” The Atlantic More: A patchwork of state laws on sexual consent and intoxication. Stateline

Immigrants and the Republican Party in the age of Trump. “Assimilation is no longer about going to school, getting a job, speaking English, and embracing local culture. It’s about being White and Christian.” The Atlantic

Before Florida executes William Reaves. “I have come to understand that moral outrage abhors understanding. People experience attempts to explain murder as an affront to the victim. They feel that admitting a murder happened for reasons would somehow diminish or dishonor its tragedy. They prefer to blame a monster without history or humanity.” Slate

Reason for optimism. “Criminal justice advocates say the political climate is also less hostile than conventional wisdom would have one believe. Although the bipartisan consensus on criminal justice reform in Congress collapsed in 2020, and several states reversed legislative reforms, advocacy groups continued to lobby successfully at the state level.” Reason

Another political guardrail is demolished. The Justice Department just made it easier for Attorney General Todd Blanche and other Senate-approved employees to engage in partisan political activities. PBS Stephen Miller, homeland security advisor for the Trump administration, spoke recently at an FBI counterterrorism conference, urging agents to more aggressively investigate threat cases like the one against his wife. CBS News

From prison reform to clemency, don’t sleep on gubernatorial races in the 2026 elections. “Governors have the power to advance policies focused on rehabilitation and human dignity, as well as the associated public safety and economic benefits of preparing incarcerated people to return home. They should use the resources they have at their disposal to drive substantive reforms.” The Brennan Center for Justice

One man is spared an execution in Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis has withdrawn his death warrant for William Thompson, who was scheduled to be executed today, following a report that Thompson suffers from dementia five decades after he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. WWSB Florida executioners are still scheduled to kill James Robertson later today. It would be the state’s 17th execution of the year. Florida Phoenix

Gaming the courts. The Justice Department didn’t even try to defend the legality of the Homeland Security Department’s pro-Trump propaganda advertisements. Instead, the feds told a judge that the ads are ending so the lawsuit challenging them should be dismissed. LAWdork On Sunday night, a federal judge ordered the administration to stop airing the ads. Politico

United States v. Jamey Comey. A federal judge is expected to rule soon on whether the Trump administration’s retaliatory prosecution of the former FBI director may proceed to trial. The legal standard in the so-called “seashells” threat case is an obstacle the Justice Department is unlikely to overcome given the evidence that has been made public. The New York Times

Two new board members for The Marshall Project. We are pleased to announce two new members of our Board of Directors: Nicola “Nika” Cohen, an attorney whose practice focuses exclusively on pro bono matters involving the criminal legal system, and Susan Dix Lyons, a longtime leader and social entrepreneur whose career has spanned journalism, healthcare, philanthropy and design. The Marshall Project