Today: Democrats sweep NY primaries, and we track the growth of immigration detention facilities

Today as it Happened on Wednesday, June 24, 2026: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s slate of fiery progressives swept establishment-backed Democrats in the state's congressional primaries on Tuesday, ousting two sitting congressmen in a resounding show of force for the democratic socialist leader of America’s largest city, who is fighting to reshape the Democratic Party in New York and beyond. U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat, who leads the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and is in his fifth term, was defeated by Mamdani’s most polarizing pick, Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist who once helped organize pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman, a two-term incumbent, was beaten by the Mamdani-backed former city Comptroller Brad Lander, a fixture among New York progressives who has often shown sympathy to the democratic socialist movement. And another Mamdani ally, democratic socialist state Assembly Member Claire Valdez, defeated the handpicked successor of retiring U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez. The Scripps News ICE Inc. investigation cast a light on the business of immigration detention, exposing record revenues for corporate owners of jails given government contracts to help carry out President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The investigation traveled across the country, unearthing mounting evidence of inhumane conditions and lack of accountability inside private immigration detention centers as investors benefited from record revenues from tax dollars. As the investigation moves beyond the one-year mark, Scripps News is continuing to follow the money, examine the contracts and investigate the human impact of a rapidly growing detention system. And a bipartisan housing bill designed to make homeownership more affordable is now in limbo after President Donald Trump abruptly canceled plans to sign the legislation, saying he wants Congress to first pass a separate election measure. “Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. The move injects uncertainty into legislation that had won support from both Republicans and Democrats at a time when housing affordability remains a major concern for Americans across the country. ------------------------------------- Follow Scripps News on other platforms— Join our newsletter at https://bit.ly/2q1tepr Follow us on Facebook:   / scrippsnews   Follow us on X: https://x.com/scrippsnews Follow us on Instagram:   / scrippsnews   Follow us on TikTok:   / scrippsnews