Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here.

ACROSS THE U.S.

• An ICE whistleblower says that the agency has been cutting corners and hiring “improperly vetted” applicants as it seeks to drive up new recruits. ([Paywall] New York Times, The Hill)
• Federal prosecutors charged ICE agent Christian Castro with lying to investigators about the events surrounding the nonfatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. He is the first ICE agent that the Trump administration is prosecuting linked to Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis. (Minnesota Reformer, AP)
• Advocates report that federal agents’ welfare checks on migrant children are driving immigration arrests and have become a source of “bounty-like payments” for local law enforcement. (Latin Times)

ICE DETENTIONS

• Lianyong Wei, a 51-year-old Chinese immigrant, was found dead hours after being detained in an ICE facility in Saipan, run by the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Corrections. (NPR)
• Detention firm CoreCivic is offering $1.2 million a year to the city of Appleton, Wisconsin, to compensate for a loss in property taxes once it starts operating a 1,600-bed facility in the area. (MPR News)
• [Long read] Some judges — especially in Mississippi and Louisiana — are taking months longer than others to decide if immigrants have been unlawfully...

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