The Marshall Project news digest

Donate Edited by Andrew Cohen View in browser The Marshall Project is currently running a community survey and we want your feedback. By answering a few brief questions, you can help us plan for our future and make sure we’re planning with your needs in mind, not just our own ideas. What do you say? Will you take the survey now? Pick of the News ICE keeps some children in hotels and other locations where advocates and loved ones cannot find them. Children detained for long stretches by federal agents are often sent to the notorious immigrant jail in Dilley, Texas. But some detained for shorter periods are locked away in hotel rooms or in Border Patrol station rooms with no privacy or access to their advocates. Government officials say in court filings that such accommodations are necessary due to travel delays or bureaucratic reasons, but one New York woman with two children who was detained after she went to an ICE check-in said her family was kept in a hotel room for nine days. TMP’s Shannon Heffernan and Lauren Villagran have the story. The Marshall Project One stitch at a time. Marie-Pierre Py leads a quilting workshop for men incarcerated at the Southern State Correctional Facility in Vermont. The men have created a piece currently on display at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center titled “Fractured/Not Broken.” Py says it’s clear the workshop has helped quilters better cope with life behind bars. “When the quilt returns to hang at the prison, I hope the men will be really proud of their work and that it will remind them that they are not alone in the hard work of transformation and that there are many of us out there ready to welcome them home,” she tells TMP’s Annaliese Griffin in the latest installment of our “Life Inside” series. The Marshall Project No October surprise here. ICE agents have been told to ramp up enforcement operations across the U.S. between now and the midterm elections. The Trump administration’s reported goal is to increase arrests to 3,000 a day, a figure that federal immigration officials have long sought to meet. CNN More details on how federal immigration officials reduced training for ICE officers and recruits from four weeks of in-person training to 40 hours. The Washington Post A U.S. Army study found that the “shock gloves” that thousands of poorly trained ICE agents will soon use during enforcement operations were so painful and powerful they immediately debilitated the people they touched. The Associated Press Autocracy watch. The Trump administration is still violating federal court orders by tying nearly $1 billion in federal funding to cooperation with immigration enforcement operations, states say. Courthouse News Service ICE agents have investigated hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S. in the past year. Democracy Docket A Trump-nominated federal judge in New York this week accused ICE agents of falsifying records to justify two wrongful arrests. The Washington Sun The Trump administration is going to provide attorneys for children the Trump administration intends to deport. The Associated Press ICE is operating an immigrant jail in New Jersey despite a court order prohibiting it from doing so. NPR Immigration nation. ICE agents fired seven shots and wounded a man in New York City during an enforcement operation on Thursday, NYPD officials said. Gothamist More on the shooting of Oscar Belgal. The New York Times A federal judge in New Jersey ordered the release of a man held in an immigrant jail for four months. State officials issued a certification supporting Martin Soto’s U visa application. NJ.com Soto was put into solitary confinement after he organized a hunger strike within Delaney Hall to protest poor conditions. Mother Jones U.S. Customs and Border Protection held a part-time employee of the Provincetown Police Department for 44 hours after his flight home from Puerto Rico was diverted to Bermuda. WGBH N/S/E/W Another trial balloon floats over Calif