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THE FORUM DAILY
New surveys this week indicate that Americans’ approval of the president’s handling of immigration is slipping.
The findings offer a bit of encouragement amid new, disturbing reports of immigration policies’ effects.
At least two Venezuelan men who entered the U.S. with permission seem to have disappeared after being detained by immigration authorities. Miriam Jordan of The New York Times reports on Ricardo Prada Vásquez, and Verónica Egui Brito of the Miami Herald covers Neiyerver Adrian Leon Rengel.
Authorities confirmed that Prada, who was living in Michigan, was removed from the United States, but he was not on the list of migrants sent to El Salvador, Jordan points out.
Leon Rengel, a 27-year-old who was living in Texas, was briefly held at a detention center there before his alien number, which allows lawyers and family to track an individual’s whereabouts, disappeared from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s) online database. Agents told his girlfriend he’d been deported to Venezuela, but his family has searched there to no avail.
As Jennie said yesterday, "The rule of law and due process protect all of us, and they are at stake in these cases."
Welcome to Wednesday’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].
CHILDREN IN COURT ALONE — Speaking of impacts, with the administration having reduced funding for unaccompanied migrant children’s legal assistance, more children are facing immigration court alone, Arya Sundaram of Gothamist reports. Less legal assistance also endangers kids’ protection from exploitation, reports Elizabeth Trovall of Marketplace.
For more stories on how policies are affecting people:
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Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student detained on account of his activism, missed the birth of his first child while in custody. (Susan Haigh and Jake Offenhartz, Associated Press)
EDUCATION — Some better news: A Tennessee bill that would allow public schools to refuse the right of enrollment for undocumented students did not move forward before the 2025 legislative session ended, reports Anita Wadhwani of the Tennessee Lookout. Lisa Sherman Luna, executive director of the Tennessee Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, credited the efforts of advocates as well as those speaking out from religious and educational institutions.
JUDGES — At least eight immigration judges in Massachusetts, California and Louisiana received notice yesterday that their employment would be ending, reports Ximena Bustillo of NPR. The firings come as immigration courts across the country already face staffing shortages. To some, the trend seems antithetical to the Trump administration’s goal to increase deportations, notes Bustillo. Meanwhile, in lawsuit news:
BUSINESS SUCCESS — Immigrants make up about 14% of the U.S. population but 45% of Fortune 500 company founders. On IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review, host Alison Beard is joined by Neri Karra Sillaman, an entrepreneurship expert at Oxford University, to discuss how immigrant-owned businesses achieve long-term success.
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