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A federal judge says the Trump administration violated court orders by sending a group of migrants to a third country and is threatening criminal contempt penalties for anyone involved, a team at The New York Times [link removed] report. 

The judge highlighted that the government gave eight men only 24 hours' notice before they were deported to a third country Tuesday, calling the amount of time given "plainly insufficient." And he’s "searching for a way to provide the men some version of the due process they had been denied." 

Meanwhile, at least 50 of the men deported to imprisonment in El Salvador migrated to the United States legally and did not violate immigration laws, reports Rebecca Beitsch of The Hill [link removed]. 

"Of the 90 cases where the method of crossing is known, 50 men report that they came legally to the United States, with advanced US government permission, at an official border crossing point," according to a new Cato Institute report [link removed]. 

Immigration court also is becoming an enforcement target for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents seeking expedited removals, including in Miami, a Miami Herald [link removed] team reports. The arrests are "a flagrant betrayal of basic fairness and due process," said Kelli Stump, president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. 

These are people doing the right thing by showing up for their immigration court hearings. Will they continue to do so if they risk ICE arrest and deportation? 

See our policy team's new fact sheet [link removed] and explainer [link removed] on expanded expedited removal, then check out our latest polling [link removed]: By a 40-point margin, Americans support the opportunity for people facing deportation to make their case and defend themselves. 

Welcome to Thursday’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, 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]. 

**PUBLIC SAFETY** — Sheriff Joe Kennedy of Dubuque County, Iowa, cites public safety in explaining why he isn’t joining the 287(g) ICE Task Force program, reports Keegan Turnbough of KCRG [link removed]. "We are not saying, and have never said, that we will not assist ICE," Kennedy said. Hannah Fingerhut of the Associated Press [link removed] has more on Kennedy and the fine line many law enforcement officials are walking. Meanwhile, Phoenix-area residents are still paying for the immigration enforcement efforts of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Jacques Billeaud of the Associated Press [link removed] reports. 

**DACA** — Court developments suggest new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applications could be permitted in every state but Texas, reports Pablo Manríquez of Migrant Insider [link removed]. Our take: Current Texas DACA recipients’ work permits could now be at risk, DACA’s future remains tenuous overall, and Congress should pass a long-term solution for Dreamers. 

**‘WRECKING BALL’** — Business owners are confused over what will happen to their Venezuelan employees as they are stripped of their Temporary Protected Status (TPS), reports Gisela Salomon of the Associated Press [link removed]. Meanwhile, the administration’s immigration policies are threatening North Carolina’s economy, News & Observer [link removed] columnist Ned Barnett writes, and could be a "wrecking ball" for Massachusetts’ economy, reports Beth Treffeisen of Boston.com [link removed]. Decreases in workers, entrepreneurial startups and foreign tourism are likely, per a new report [link removed] by Boston University Professor Mark Williams.  

**DIGNITY** — A bipartisan senate bill would allow foreign-born religious workers with expiring visas to remain in the U.S. while their green card applications are processed, Manríquez of Migrant Insider [link removed] reports. Marc Ramirez of USA Today [link removed] highlights that some ministers have had to abandon their congregations. Elsewhere on the faith front, Pope Leo XIV is a powerful advocate for immigrants, León Krauze writes in his Washington Post [link removed] column. In the pope’s words, "All of us, in the course of our lives, can find ourselves ... living in our native land or in a foreign country, yet our dignity always remains unchanged: it is the dignity of a creature willed and loved by God." 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

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