The Forum Daily | Monday, September 8, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

**THE FORUM DAILY**The president said Sunday that international companies are welcome to operate in the United States if they comply with the country's immigration laws, reports Seb Starcevic of Politico [link removed]. 

In a post on social media, Trump also said that he expects foreign corporations to “hire and train American [w]orkers.”  

The comments come after Thursday’s raid at a Hyundai facility in Georgia, where hundreds of South Korean workers on visa waivers were arrested. The economic fallout includes doubts about billions in planned investments, report Hyonhee Shin, Youkyung Lee and Yoolim Lee of Bloomberg [link removed].  

The raid also has caused diplomatic tension between the U.S. and a key ally, reports Rebecca Schneid of Time [link removed]. 

South Korea’s Foreign Minister, Cho Hyun, is flying to Washington, D.C., today to discuss preventing similar future incidents, per Joyce Lee and Hyunjoo Jin of Reuters [link removed]. Cho said he would ask for improvements in the U.S. visa system for Korean workers. 

The raid also underscores growing tensions between immigration policies and the sought-after rapid expansion of U.S. manufacturing, as a team at The New York Times [link removed] explains. And the administration plans to target more businesses, Ted Hesson of Reuters [link removed] reports. 

In Forbes [link removed], Stuart Anderson analyzes how the recent decline in the foreign-born labor force has a negative impact on job growth. 

"[T]he U.S. labor market is more complex than the cartoon economy in the minds of some politicians, who think that business owners faced with a loss of immigrant workers will simply hire native [U.S.-born] workers to replace them,” said George Mason University economics professor Michael Clemens. “Business owners hit by sudden reductions to labor supply invest less in new business formation.” 

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, Nicci Mattey and Clara Villatoro. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected] mailto:[email protected]. 

Federal Policies 

* Top immigration court rules judges can deny bond to millions of immigrants [link removed] (Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times) 

* DHS Doubles Down on National Interest for Expelling Venezuelans [link removed] (Andrew Kreighbaum, Bloomberg Law) 

* Bondi decisions limit asylum for victims of domestic abuse, gang violence [link removed] (Maria Sacchetti and Jeremy Roebuck, The Washington Post) 

Economy 

* Mounting Deportations Meet Slow Hiring in a ‘Curious Kind of Balance’ [link removed] (Lydia DePillis, The New York Times) 

* Michigan may lose millions as universities see drop in international students [link removed] (Kim Kozlowski, Bridge Michigan) 

* Families, US economy hurt by ICE raids, national civil rights leader says [link removed] (Sandra Sanchez, Border Report) 

Enforcement Actions 

* Trump Pushes Bounds of Military, Police Immigration Actions [link removed] (Ellen M. Gilmer, Roxana Tiron and Tatyana Monnay, Bloomberg Law) 

* ICE begins new surge in Boston, as its deportation machinery hardens into place in New England [link removed] (Sean Cotter, Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio and Yoohyun Jung, The Boston Globe) 

* What We Know About Trump’s Crime and Immigration Crackdown in U.S. Cities [link removed] (Jesus Jiménez and Julie Bosman, The New York Times) 

* Navy base to serve as hub for up to 250 federal agents for Chicago immigration crackdown, memo indicates [link removed] (Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News) 

* Immigrant rights group responds after suspected ICE activity on Chicago's Southwest Side [link removed] (Sara Machi, CBS News Chicago)   

Church, School Impacts 

* Immigrant faithful turn to virtual sermons and home communion amid Trump crackdown [link removed] (Nathan Layne, Reuters) 

* Trump immigration policies spark fear and faith at Spanish Catholic Masses [link removed] (Amira Abuzeid, Catholic News Agency) 

* Trump’s immigration crackdown upends life at Austin elementary school [link removed] (Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman) 

* Is Trump's immigration crackdown worsening school absenteeism? [link removed] (Kayla Jimenez, USA Today) 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan

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