Though the election dominated last week’s news and will likely dominate next week’s as well, other things have been happening in the world of immigration. Here are a few:

• The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement resigned without explanation, effective November 15. Julie L. Myers, who was appointed to the position in 2005, oversaw high-profile raids and record levels of deportations.
• A private contractor hired 92 security guards for an ICE detention facility in Washington without conducting mandatory background chacks. An administrator for GEO Group Inc., which runs the 1,000-bed prison, faces federal charges.
• ICE arrested another 111 immigrants in Florida. The AP reports that the total number of deportations in Fiscal Year 2008 was 350,000. That’s a 20 percent increase over last year.
• A Dominican-American writes about the “tortuous process” of legal immigration and his futile efforts to help his brother immigrate to the U.S.
• A U.S. citizen was freed after being held by ICE for two months.
• A group of neo-Nazis holding an anti-immigration rally in Tyler, Tex., faced a much larger group of pro-immigrant protesters.