The Forum Daily | Tuesday, May 27, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

THE FORUM DAILY

We hope everyone had a restful and meaningful Memorial Day weekend.  

In his piece for The xxxxxx [link removed], military veteran Will Selber takes us through several of his walks with his friend Lt. Gen. Haibatullah Alizai, the final commander of the Afghan National Army, around American memorials to those lost in war.  

Selber asks that we remember the Afghan nationals who saved American lives over the course of 20 years and reflects on the betrayal so many Afghans feel now that the federal government is ending Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for certain Afghans in the U.S. (8,245 people, per the count we shared [link removed]).  

Many veterans are disappointed and angry at the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) decision to end TPS for Afghans, report Abigail Hauslohner and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux of The Washington Post [link removed].  

Veterans and other advocates say that despite DHS’s reassurance, many Afghans who fought alongside the United States will face retaliation for their work if sent back to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.  

"These are people whose only ‘crime’ is having lived, learned or worked in the United States. And now, with TPS terminated and no viable pathway forward, they face an impossible choice: return to persecution or risk deportation from the very country they trusted," said Shawn VanDiver, president and board chairman of #AfghanEvac.  

Welcome to Tuesday’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]. 

**Immigration Enforcement **

* Suddenly, immigration enforcement is job one for the entire federal government [link removed] (Forum Fellow Theresa Cardinal Brown op-ed, The Hill) 

* Judge pleads with Trump administration for "reason over rhetoric" in deportation case [link removed] (Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein, Politico) 

* How Trump Has Targeted New Groups for Deportation [link removed] (Ashley Wu and Albert Sun, The New York Times) 

* How Trump's clash with the courts is brewing into an 'all-out war' [link removed] (Zac Anderson, USA Today) 

**Uncertainty for Immigrants** 

* 4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care [link removed] (Andrea Castillo and Myung J. Chun, Los Angeles Times) 

* Court battle leaves tenuous funding for unaccompanied migrant children’s legal representation [link removed] (Austin Fisher, Source NM) 

* These immigrants in Idaho fled violence. Now they face a harsh reality [link removed] (Carolyn Komatsoulis and Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman) 

* ‘All They Want Is America. All They Have Is Panama.’ [link removed] (Gisela Salim-Peyer and Tarina Rodriguez, The Atlantic) 

**Economy** 

* Our immigration system is undermining America’s manufacturing comeback [link removed] (Kip Eideberg op-ed, Washington Examiner) 

* Republican Crackdown on Aid to Immigrants Would Hit U.S. Citizens [link removed] (Madeleine Ngo and Lydia DePillis, The New York Times) 

* Immigrants account for 20% of CT workers, large chunk of economy, new report says [link removed] (Alex Putterman, CT Insider) 

**Other** 

* Trump’s migration policy isn’t just a constitutional violation—it's a biblical one [link removed] (Terence Sweeney op-ed, America) 

* The "Invasion" Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy [link removed] (Molly Redden, ProPublica) 

* Choose your own U.S. adventure: Writer unpacks 'absurd' immigration system using comedy [link removed] (Julia Cooper, WLRN) 

* The Pro-Trump Cuban Rapper About to Be Deported [link removed] (Achy Obejas, Politico) 

 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

 

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