The Forum Daily | Thursday, May 29, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

THE FORUM DAILYGood news for some of our Afghan allies [link removed], Ukrainians [link removed], and many migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean: Late yesterday, a federal judge ordered the administration to lift its pause on immigration parole programs, reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS News [link removed]. 

"It is not in the public interest to manufacture a circumstance in which hundreds of thousands of individuals will, over the course of several months, become unlawfully present in the country, such that these individuals cannot legally work in their communities or provide for themselves and their families," the judge wrote. 

Businesses across the country are concerned about their workforce as deportations continue. In Nashville, Tennessee, small businesses owners continue to deal with the fallout of recent immigration enforcement actions, reports Braden Ross of WSMV [link removed].  

Meanwhile, in North Carolina, one of only two American companies that make parachutes for U.S. soldiers would face major labor shortages should deportations hit its community, reports Ruth Simon of The Wall Street Journal [link removed], with photography by Angela Owens. 

Dozens of workers at the factory, from countries such as Ukraine and Nicaragua, are at risk of losing their protections and work authorization [link removed]. "If we lose these workers, it would be devastating to our business. That puts the rest of the workforce at risk," said John Oswald, chief executive of Mills Manufacturing.  

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]. 

**ARRESTING** — A judge blocked a Florida immigration law on the likelihood it’s not constitutional. Then Florida police arrested 25 people under the law, report Hannah Critchfield and Ashley Borja of the Tampa Bay Times [link removed]. The law in question makes entering the state while undocumented a crime. On the federal level, Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are pushing for 3,000 daily immigration arrests — a huge increase — report Brittany Gibson and Stef W. Kight of Axios [link removed]. 

**MIDDLE GROUND** — Georgia Rep. Kasey Carpenter, a conservative Republican, takes a relatively welcoming approach on immigration, reports a team at The Atlanta-Journal Constitution [link removed]. Carpenter has advocated for bipartisan immigration solutions upholding the dignity of immigrants, the team notes. "Every election cycle [immigrants] are held hostage by both Democrats and Republicans and it has to stop," Carpenter said. "We need them and it is time to focus our attention on making it fair, fast and reasonable." 

**‘SANCTUARY’ AND REALITY** — The Trump administration has targeted cities that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts by withholding funds and saying they’re violating federal law. Professors Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien and Loren Collingwood clarify the picture in The Conversation [link removed]. "Sanctuary policies are certainly worthy of debate, but this requires an accurate representation of what they are, what they do, and the effects they have," they write. For more on so-called sanctuary policies, check out this Forum resource [link removed]. 

**CHILDREN AT RISK** — Under new rules from the federal government, reuniting migrant children with their families now takes an average of 217 days, report Cedar Attanasio and Amanda Seitz of the Associated Press [link removed]. Additionally, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers are now swabbing children as young as 4 for their DNA to store in a criminal database, reports Dhruv Mehrotra of Wired [link removed]. Daniel Zawodny of The Baltimore Banner [link removed] offers a summary of the process that unaccompanied children face once they arrive in the U.S. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

**P.S.** The Council on National Security and Immigration warned yesterday [link removed] of the global, economic and security impacts of giving international students the cold shoulder. Later in the day, the administration announced it "would work to ‘aggressively revoke’ visas of Chinese students," Edward Wong of The New York Times [link removed] reports. 

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