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There’s a lot of fire in the immigration system right now. There’s even more smoke.

Thousands of articles, videos, threads, and posts a day, often covering actions that seem designed to create confusion, chaos, and spectacle.

We use algorithms to show where the smoke is thickest, and judgment and expertise to reveal what really matters.

Spectacle

Evidence

A raid on video.

The agreement that put local police in it.

A press conference.

The Federal Register notice, and its comment deadline.

A threat on social media.

The docket number, and the hearing date.

A number shouted on TV.

The same number, checked against the Deportation Data Project.

The latest edition · Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026

A hard form switch is coming for work permits and status extensions

Also in this edition

  • For deported people in Liberia, uncertainty begins after the flight
  • California moves to open a window into private detention centers
  • One year after ICE detained 475 workers at a Georgia Hyundai site, a worker files an FTCA claim
  • Around the system
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What’s in it

A calendar of what’s coming.

Effective dates, comment deadlines, court dates — all backed by primary sources and links to expert analysis. The rules that quietly take force while everyone’s arguing about the outrage of the day.

The day’s rundown, grounded in reporting and evidence.

When we cite links about deportation, we check them against the Deportation Data Project. A reported rule change is checked against the Federal Register and the USCIS Policy Manual.

The headlines, from English and Spanish media.

Spanish-language TV news, deeply technical policy blogs, Substack newsletters, social video — from nerdy law blogs to YouTube coverage of ICE raids, we’re watching and bringing you what’s relevant.

The top of an Immigration Daybook edition dated August 3, 2026. The lead story reports that a federal contract funding legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children has expired, leaving tens of thousands of minors facing immigration court without attorneys. Two bolded follow-up items each end in source links.
The rundown: what happened, what it means, and who reported it.
The Upcoming section of the same edition, a dated calendar split into Today and This Week, each entry carrying a source link to the Federal Register or WR Immigration.
The calendar: what’s coming, with the primary source or expert citation for each date.

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September 2026

August 2026

How it’s made

This newsletter is proudly algorithmic, and we intend to make it the most carefully crafted algorithmic writing you’ve ever read. The bet isn’t “AI reads the news” — lots of people are doing that, and a lot of it is slop. The bet is that a newsroom can have a brain: something you can actually query about everything it knows, that shows its work instead of asking you to trust it.

The system reads the day’s news and surfaces the patterns it finds. Then a person edits — what it means, whether it’s accurate, and who covered it best. That person is David Eads, a data journalist with years of experience covering immigration for publications including NPR and The Marshall Project.

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August was a free pilot; we’re still figuring out what this should be and how to sustain it. We’d rather have you in the room for the early version than polish it in a vacuum.

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