ICE leadership tells agents to make 3,000 arrests a day

ICE leadership gave agents a verbal directive Tuesday to make 3,000 immigration arrests a day, CNN reports. The reported target—19,000 arrests a week, allowing for lighter weekend staffing—would push the agency about 1,000 arrests above its recent daily average. DHS said there are “NO quotas on arrests,” but two sources told the outlet that leadership gave agents the directive while pressing them to make as many arrests as possible for deportation. CNN

People held at a Texas ICE camp begin a hunger strike

People held at the El Valle Detention Facility in Raymondville, Texas, began refusing food Sept. 29 to protest prolonged detention. The group’s stated demand is transfer out of the Fifth Circuit, where the Trump administration has so far prevailed in its effort to keep people in immigration detention without bond; ICE did not respond to questions about the strike or the people taking part. The Marshall Project

287(g) agreements meet resistance in Florida and Utah

Doral, Florida residents are pressing their city to end its 287(g) agreement with ICE, but city lawyers say Florida law requires it. The mayor says that remains the legal team’s view, based on the state’s sanctuary-city law and the attorney general’s warning to Fort Myers. Advocates read the statute differently: they say it specifically requires written ICE agreements from sheriffs and county-jail operators, while other local agencies must make “best efforts” to support federal enforcement. WLRN, Miami Herald, 287(g) Watch

North Valley Police in Moroni, Utah, are reconsidering their 287(g) training agreement after traffic stops by officers assigned to ICE led to five federal detentions. The chief said the department understood its role to begin after an arrest for a Utah offense, said officers did not know why ICE detained the five people, and said the department would not seek federal money through the agreement. The two disputes show how an ICE agreement can look settled on paper but become contested in ordinary local policing. ABC4, 287(g) Watch

DHS proposes a steep new cost for international graduates who want to work

DHS has proposed a $70,000 charge when a school recommends an international student for the first period of Optional Practical Training, or OPT. OPT lets students on F-1 visas work temporarily in jobs related to what they studied. Under the proposal, the school—not the student—would pay before its international-student official could make the recommendation in SEVIS, the federal student-record system; USCIS would not issue the student’s work permit if the fee had not been paid. A later OPT period would carry a proposed $30,000 charge. DHS

The proposal would not require students to write a $70,000 check themselves, but schools could pass the cost to students or employers. That could decide whether recent graduates can use a work authorization long built into the student-visa path. It remains a proposal, with public comments open through November 9. Fragomen, American Bazaar

Around the system

ICE buys electric-shock gloves. ICE signed a $16.7 million August contract for 6,000 pairs after agency leaders had a military study finding that shocks could produce rapid compliance and leave participants afraid of another exposure. The study tested whether the devices got people to comply, not whether they were safe for the people ICE may subject to them. CNN Español/AP, AP

A judge limits warrantless plate-reader tracking. A federal judge in Oklahoma suppressed evidence after a deputy used Flock’s plate-reader network to reconstruct about a month of one driver’s cross-state movements, treating the accumulated location record as a search requiring a warrant. The ruling is a district-court decision, but it takes aim at how a local stop can turn into a wide-ranging surveillance trail. Court order, Reason

A lawsuit challenges new green-card rules for people already in the U.S. The plaintiffs say USCIS is treating a lawful choice to apply for permanent residence from inside the country as a negative factor, while also allowing some applications—including pending ones—to be denied without first asking for more evidence. Newsweek, The Daily Record

A judge blocks an asylum restriction at the border. The ruling found that Trump’s order suspending asylum access at the southern border went beyond the president’s authority, while delaying the effect long enough for the administration to appeal. KRGV

The tuition cases are about whether students can still afford college where they grew up. Twenty-four states and Washington, D.C., are in active litigation over in-state tuition for immigrant students; if those policies fall, a student’s ties to a state may matter less than whether their family can absorb nonresident tuition. News From The States

A DHS review found missed care before a man’s death in Conroe, Texas. Luis Núñez Cáceres, who had been held at the Joe Corley Processing Center for seven weeks, died after staff delayed his evaluation, missed monitoring problems and failed to order some diagnostic tests, according to the agency’s mortality-review committee. Houston Chronicle

A California death report describes failures at Adelanto. The account of Ismael Ayala-Uribe’s death at Adelanto ICE Processing Center centers on repeated lapses by medical staff before he died, adding another concrete case to the question of care inside ICE custody. Capital Gazette

Chicago’s food economy runs on immigrant labor at every stage. A local account follows workers through food production, distribution, grocery stores, restaurants and meat processing—the jobs that keep the city’s food system moving but often disappear from the conversation about immigration. Chicago Reader

Colorado voters will decide whether to open the door wider to ICE cooperation. Amendment 81 would change the state’s approach to working with federal immigration enforcement, putting a central piece of Colorado’s immigration policy directly before voters. The Denver Post

ICE briefly posted detention-death reviews, then removed them. The Conroe review was among more than two dozen mortality reports that appeared on the agency’s website late last month and disappeared without explanation, leaving the records to internet archives and news reporting. Houston Chronicle, Capital Gazette

Springfield mourns a Haitian student who lost legal status and died by suicide. Pierre Damas Bel was 20; the reporting follows his family and community after his legal protections ended in July, placing one death in the larger disruption facing Haitian families. PBS NewsHour, Miami Herald