The Forum Daily | Wednesday, September 10, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

**THE FORUM DAILY**Business leaders are asking President Trump to ease his administration’s immigration crackdown after the raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia swept up 475 workers, reports Natalie Sherman of BBC News [link removed]. 

“Those actions are having ripple and ancillary effects on others, real and unintended, unfortunately whether they're in legal status or not,” said Jeff Wasden, president of State Business Executives. “[I]t's time to focus on the workforce and how we fix some of these programmes and problems.” 

Trump, while saying that immigration agents did the right thing by detaining the Hyundai workers, also said the U.S. should have a way for foreign experts to stay in the country legally and temporarily, reports Greg Wehner of Fox News [link removed].  

"We do have to work something out where we bring in experts so that our people can be trained so that they can do it themselves,"said the president, explaining that he hoped foreign experts could train American workers. 

The president’s goal of making the U.S. a global leader in AI innovations might be undermined by his immigration policies, reports Deepa Shivaram of NPR [link removed].  

AI professionals are concerned that U.S. immigration policies will keep out international workers and students who play a pivotal role in AI development. 

Regarding students specifically, national security leaders Prakash Khatri [link removed] and Joe Whitley [link removed] analyze the impacts of immigration policy shifts on U.S. competitiveness in a new post for the Council on National Security and Immigration [link removed]. 

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 Marcela Aguirre, Masooma Amin, Jillian Clark 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].   

**FOOD ECONOMY** — In The Fulcrum [link removed], Layla Halilbasic writes on the labor that runs the country’s food economy. In the meatpacking industry alone, 42% of workers are foreign-born and 23% are undocumented. “The U.S. is criminalizing the very people keeping it fed. Immigration crackdowns don’t just break up families; they break supply chains,” Halilbasic writes. 

**BROADENING THE SCOPE** — Immigration enforcement officers no longer have to fill out a form with details about their target and operation and get a supervisor’s approval, reports a team at NBC News [link removed]. Scott Shuchart, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement assistant director for regulatory affairs and policy, said the form was a way to show that officers did their due diligence. “There would be a reason that you go for Peter rather than Paul,” he said. “They are now interested in numbers ....” 

**MIXED REACTIONS** — In communities across the country, immigrant detention centers are generating a complex mix of feelings, report Mikayla Melo and David Scibilia of News21 [link removed] via Michigan Advance [link removed]. Although some residents are hopeful the reopening will bring jobs and resources, others have doubts. “We are known as a prison town but having an ICE detention facility … is not something that many of the residents want,” said Ashley Hernandez, a resident of Leavenworth, Kansas. Also see the related News21 video [link removed] by Avery Callens and Alexa Durben. 

**HEAD START LIMITED** — Migrant or Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) provides early childhood education to almost 25,000 children whose families work seasonal agricultural jobs. In July, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an order restricting some immigrant families from using the program, taking away a vital resource from thousands of children, reports Sara Murphy of The Guardian [link removed]. Now the future of the program and the families it serves is unclear.  

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

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