Daily Business Report: Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Border Report: Mapping Racism in U.S. Immigration Laws
By Kate Morrissey | Voice of San Diego
Ninety-six percent of deportation orders went to people from nonwhite-majority countries from 1895 through 2022, according to researchers at University of California Los Angeles.
In a project called Mapping Deportations, released last week in a collaboration between the School of Law’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy and Million Dollar Hoods, the researchers found that the creation of U.S. immigration enforcement laws and policies has a deep history of racism that continues today.
“That number is far too high to be random,” said Mariah Tso, one of the researchers on the project. “And it’s not random. The numbers are a reflection of policies and racism.”
California’s tribes once again get lawmakers to attack a gambling competitor
By Ryan Sablow | CalMatters
For the second straight year, casino-owning tribes persuaded lawmakers to pass legislation that directly attacks the tribes’ business competitors.
Earlier this month, the California Legislature approved Assembly Bill 831, which bans companies from offering certain types of online sweepstakes that the tribes see as a threat to their exclusive rights to gambling in California.
In an example of how much political clout the tribes have — thanks in part to the millions of dollars they have donated to legislators’ reelection campaigns — the measure easily passed both legislative chambers without any of California’s 120 lawmakers voting against it.
DHS Warns California, New York, Illinois to Cooperate With ICE Deportations
By Victoria Friedman | The Epoch Times
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a Sept. 20 statement that it warned the states of California, Illinois, and New York to cooperate with the federal government on deporting illegal immigrants.
The DHS said, via Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), that it was following up on letters sent to the three states’ attorneys general on Sept. 10 to confirm whether they would notify ICE when illegal immigrants are set to be released from jail or prison so that they can be transferred into the agency’s custody.
DHS said ICE had received responses from Illinois and New York, which affirmed their refusal to comply, and had not received a response from California.
