The Forum Daily | Monday, April 21, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

**THE FORUM DAILY**Our hearts ache with the news that Pope Francis passed away [link removed] earlier this Easter Monday. We send our thoughts and prayers to the Catholic community. 

Just yesterday, Vice President J.D. Vance and the pontiff met briefly in Rome. Later, in his Easter message, the Pope called for better treatment of migrants and other vulnerable and marginalized people, reports Margherita Stancati of The Wall Street Journal [link removed]. 

In the United States, ongoing court challenges to administration policies made headlines over the weekend. On Friday, a federal appeals court affirmed a judge's ruling that prevented the Trump administration from canceling Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, reports Jay Weaver of the Miami Herald [link removed]. 

On Saturday, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily halted the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under the Alien Enemies Act, reports Jasmine Garsd of NPR [link removed]. 

"The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court," the note reads. 

Hours before the Supreme Court’s announcement, about 30 Venezuelan migrants were sent in buses toward an airport in North Texas. It turned around following the halt, reports an NBC News [link removed] team. 

The administration’s immigration enforcement is presenting "a clash over the rule of law and due process," on the one hand, "vs. the Trump administration’s assertions of presidential power [link removed] and its resistance to challenges by federal district court judges," analyzes Dan Balz of The Washington Post [link removed]. Peter Baker writes on a similar theme in The New York Times [link removed]. 

Jennie spoke about this dynamic in an interview with Brittany Lewis of Forbes [link removed] late last week. 

Speaking of the president’s resistance to the judicial branch, on Sunday he spent part of his own Easter message criticizing judges, reports Antonio Pequeño IV of Forbes [link removed]. 

Welcome to Monday’s edition of The Forum Daily. I’m Dan Gordon, the Forum’s VP of strategic communications, and the great Forum Daily team also includes Jillian Clark, Soledad Gassó Parker, Broc Murphy, Clara Villatoro and Becka Wall. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected] mailto:[email protected]. 

Ongoing Litigation 

* Supreme Court to Weigh Trump’s Bid to End Birthright Citizenship [link removed] (Jan Wolfe and Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Journal) 

* Costa Rica Violated Rights of 81 Migrant Children Deported by U.S., Lawsuit Says [link removed] (Emiliano Rodríguez Mega and James Wagner, The New York Times) 

* Trump administration agrees to fund $10.5M refugee health grant following Harris County lawsuit [link removed] (John Lomax V, Houston Chronicle) 

* Lawyers Skeptical of Trump DOJ Claim on Foreign Students’ Status [link removed] (Andrew Kreighbaum, Bloomberg Law) 

Increased Enforcement 

* How AI is aiding Trump's immigration crackdown [link removed](William Antonelli, Context) 

* DHS demands 'detailed records' of student visa holders at Harvard [link removed] (Luke Barr, ABC News) 

* ICE partnerships with local law enforcement triple as Trump continues deportation crackdown [link removed] (Julia Ingram, CBS News) 

 Advocates, Helpers, Neighbors 

* More than 300 Massachusetts residents, healthcare workers sign letter demanding hospitals defend immigrant patients [link removed] (Carson Lyle, The Huntington News) 

* Holy Thursday service participants express love for Jesus and immigrants [link removed] (Rick Brunson, Central Florida Public Media) 

* Hamilton County Board of Education opposes bill allowing schools to deny unauthorized immigrants a free education [link removed] (Shannon Coan, Chattanooga Times Free Press) 

Personal Stories 

* Father In U.S. For 30 Years Chained and Humiliated by ICE: 'Mocking Them' [link removed] (Billal Rahman, Newsweek) 

* Father dropping daughter off at school arrested by immigration agents in Azusa  [link removed] (Sahana Patel and Mekahlo Medina, NBC 4 Los Angeles) 

* Akronites have 'disappeared,' immigration lawyer says, alleging due process breakdown [link removed] (Patrick Williams, Akron Beacon Journal)  

* Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label [link removed] (Hannah Natanson, Lisa Rein and Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post) 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

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