Pundits continued assessing the long-term impact of the New Hampshire primary results—and the decision by voters in both parties to buck the establishment in favor of candidates outside the mainstream. Sifting the data on Donald Trump’s strong showing, analysts discovered that immigration actually ranked relatively low among the issues most important to GOP voters; one in seven said it was the issue they cared most about in this campaign, while nearly twice that number identified the economy as their No. 1 concern. “When asked whether most immigrants working in the United States illegally should be deported or offered a chance at legal status, a majority backed legal status,” according to a report in the New York Times by a Baruch College consultant, in a finding seemingly at odds with early exit poll soundings reported on Primary Night. Six in ten said they were very concerned about the possibility of a terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

Advocates concerned by Trump’s victory, and its implications for the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim agenda the candidate has espoused, took heart in the knowledge that the presidential contest now moves to states with greater diversity than Iowa and New Hampshire, and, in many cases, greater infrastructure for pushing back against a negative narrative. A coalition led by SEIU and Mi Familia Vota has been busy using that narrative to help register and turn out the Latino vote, for example. Others cheered the strong second-place showing of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, whose supporters were far more likely than Trump’s to support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and oppose a temporary ban on allowing Muslims into the country.  The decisions by Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina to exit the race furthered speculation about the GOP establishment’s ability to move past its fractured early innings and coalesce around a candidate to counter Trump.

Hillary Clinton looked to South Carolina to help restore momentum to her campaign, but Bernie Sanders, enjoying a strong advantage among young and women voters in New Hampshire balloting, indicated he would vigorously contest Clinton’s expected advantage among African-American voters. In addition to meeting with the Rev. Al Sharpton Wednesday (he meets with Clinton next week), Sanders landed a surprise vote of confidence from prominent black journalist, MacArthur genius grant recipient and National Book Award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates. Former Soros Justice fellow Michelle Alexander wrote a piece in The Nation, arguing that the criminal justice record of the Clinton administration in the 1990s means Hillary “doesn’t deserve the black vote.”

Editorialists across the country decried the message of hate and xenophobia touted by Trump supporters.

Immigrant rights advocates got an unexpected boost when Pope Francis announced plans to stand at the U.S.-Mexican border in solidarity with those who cross it. “This is one community despite the fence,” said a Vatican spokesman, of the plan for the pope to hold a cross-border mass in Ciudad Juarez.

President Obama’s newly released budget includes funding to equip border patrol agents with body-worn cameras, despite efforts by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency to resist requiring all agents to wear the technology. The Southern Border Communities Coalition, funded by grantee the Four Freedoms Fund, has pushed for years for such ways to improve accountability and transparency while cutting down on the border patrol’s inordinately high use of force.

A Wall Street Journal assessment of Arizona’s hard-line approach to undocumented immigrants spawned analysis suggesting that the costs to the state of cracking down on this population—in lost GDP from folks fleeing for more hospitable locales—significantly outweighed the benefits.

A new report showed that some 44 percent of Silicon Valley startups were launched by immigrants, and chronicles their brushes with an immigration system in need of reform to help further innovation and business growth and development.

The Atlantic ran a piece on the challenges involved in accurately polling the Latino vote—including language barriers and historically low response rates.

Latino activists swarmed a Madison, Wisconsin committee hearing room to protest legislation that would safeguard police powers to question the immigration status of persons questioned. Their efforts had even some of the bill’s supporters concerned about “the message it sends to immigrants who fear deportation,” according to a report on Wisconsin Public Radio.

In Princeton, New Jersey, the arrest of two men in an immigration raid was followed by a message of support from the town’s human services department, as well as the Latin American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Among other grantee and advocate activities:

--America’s Voice circulated compilations of all the remaining presidential candidates’ statements on immigration, surfacing questions they believe voters need answers to.

--Seven immigrant families in Georgia arrested during ICE raids last month were released from detention, thanks to an intervention by a coalition led by the American Immigration Lawyers Association. While the families could yet face deportation, following exhaustion of their appeals, the case was hailed by grantees as an example of the crucial difference legal representation can make in dealing with these cases. 

-- Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk has called for a pause in admitting any more Syrian refugees pending a better way to screen for terrorists trying to use fake passports to sneak into the country. The National Immigrant Justice Center has battled back, arguing in a statement that his idea betrays the state’s history of welcoming persecuted populations.

--Muslim Advocates remembered the one-year anniversary of the shooting deaths of three young Muslims killed because of their faith in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and sought to lift up the stories of heroes emerging from that tragedy. 

--Grantee Linda Sarsour went on MSNBC to decry the anti-Muslim messaging of Donald Trump and the voters who endorsed it.

--The Sikh Coalition, advocating on behalf of a prominent Sikh American actor who was denied the ability to board his flight because he wore a turban, won concessions from Aeromexico, the airline in question, following a sustained communications, legal and advocacy campaign.