Our Immigration team has a double-length timeline update, and today’s briefing will be followed next week by a deeper dive on what “immigration enforcement” looks like now. We also have a Food Safety briefing that is only partly about cyclosporiasis, plus quick updates from Medicaid and Federal Workforce.

Immigration

The Immigration team added 42 new events to our timeline, including the deaths of Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez and Adrian Andreas Florian in ICE custody and the fatal shootings by ICE agents of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas. The death of yet another man—a 29-year-old fleeing an ICE traffic stop in Florida who was killed by a tractor-trailer this week—will be in our next update.

The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in a 6–3 ruling. The court also allowed DHS to end temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians and to limit the number of people allowed to apply for asylum at ports of entry each day. Finally, they ruled that border officers are not required to have “clear and convincing evidence” that a green card holder committed a disqualifying crime before denying them re-entry to the US. Elsewhere in the court system, federal judges blocked the administration from misusing the SAVE data query tool to verify voter citizenship, quashed subpoenas issued to Minnesota state and local officials who criticized federal actions in Minneapolis, and blocked arrests in immigration courts nationwide.

Food Safety

The Food Safety team added 8 new events to our timeline. The CDC’s efforts to track the nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak—which is sickening thousands—have been hamstrung by underfunding. We’re also continuing to follow contamination in baby formula: The FDA announced that four infants contracted botulism after consuming formula from Nara Organics, which shares a supplier with the company behind a 2025 outbreak. And the Justice Department closed its multiyear criminal investigation into Abbott Laboratories for allegedly selling baby formula contaminated with the potentially deadly bacterium Cronobacter sakazakii; California Senator Adam Schiff has opened a congressional inquiry into the DOJ’s decision to drop the probe.

Medicaid

The Medicaid team added 3 new events to our timeline. New York is the latest target in the administration’s “war on fraud”: HHS is now withholding funding from the state’s anti–Medicaid fraud unit over alleged failure to indict enough people for fraud or abuse. Meanwhile, 26 states sued the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and HHS over draconian federal guidance that prevents states from easily exempting medically frail Medicaid recipients from work requirements. Finally, a budget bill provision banning Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood for nonabortion care expired on July 5, leaving states to choose whether to include the provider in their Medicaid programs. Planned Parenthood reports that nearly 30 of its clinics closed while the federal ban was in effect and that 64% of closed clinics were in states where abortion is legal.

Equitable Federal Workforce

This week, our Federal Workforce team added 2 new events to the timeline. Two unions representing federal employees are suing the Defense Department for terminating collective bargaining rights for nearly all civilian DOD workers. This sharp policy reversal came with little, if any, notification—and it’s based on an executive order that’s still being challenged in court.

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