Florida International University’s 287(g) agreement allows trained campus police to perform certain federal immigration functions. No students have been detained on immigration charges by campus police under the agreement, according to the university, but the Washington Post documents effects on tuition assistance, student transfers, philanthropy and perceptions of campus belonging.

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Federal data show that 10,255 of the 10,258 refugees admitted to the United States through July 31 in FY2026 were South African, while only three were from another country. Total refugee admissions have also fallen sharply compared with FY2024 and FY2025.

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A presidential proclamation extending restrictions on entry of certain H-1B specialty workers takes effect today and is scheduled to run through September 21, 2027; it states that covered petitions for workers outside the United States must be accompanied by a $100,000 payment, subject to national-interest exceptions.

Read the White House proclamation

Read the White House H-1B program-integrity fact sheet

There is an important legal qualification for employers and workers: the federal policy implementing the $100,000 payment was vacated in June, and on July 24 the First Circuit denied the government’s request to stay that judgment while its appeal proceeds.

Read the First Circuit order in State of California v. Mullin

This distinction is particularly relevant to New York because New York is one of the 20 plaintiff states challenging the fee, and the underlying litigation cites potential effects on public universities, schools and health-care systems that employ H-1B professionals.

The September 15, 2026 Pediatrics study of 1,654 pediatricians found that 40% reported immigrant families avoiding medical care for a child because of immigration-status concerns, nearly one-third reported families avoiding applications for government programs, and 21.3% reported families avoiding sending a child to school. The authors explicitly caution that these are pediatricians’ perceptions rather than patient-level measures and are subject to recall bias.

Read the American Academy of Pediatrics research brief

Using the 2021 American Community Survey, IIIRP provides eight datasets covering foreign-born/native-born population, country of origin, languages spoken, English proficiency, educational attainment, age, employment sector, and poverty for foreign-born New Yorkers ages 16–64.

Source: IIIRP Data Gateway | American Community Survey, 2021.
Explore the IIIRP Immigrant New Yorkers Data Gateway