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**THE FORUM DAILY**
Millions of American families could be affected by "the largest domestic deportation operation in American history" Donald Trump is promising in a potential second term in office, report Suzanne Gamboa and Joe Murphy of NBC News .??

According to Pew Research Center, about 5.6 million households in the United States include undocumented immigrants. An operation targeting undocumented people "would have significant ripple effects in American society," Gamboa and Murphy note.??

"Since there hasn't been mass legalization since 1986, there is space for these kinds of families to exist where not everyone has the same citizenship," said Leisy Abrego, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.????

Trump's plans would also "send shock waves" through Minnesota's economy, Emma Nelson??and??Christopher Vondracek??report for the Star Tribune . ??

"[T]here is no other option for growing the workforce other than international immigration or a change in domestic migration patterns, which for 20 years??have not worked in the favor of Minnesota ," said State Demographer Susan Brower. ??

Immigrants help keep the state's farms running, and the health care sector is already dealing with a labor shortage, Nelson and Vondracek note.?? We'll leave our 2024 immigration principles here .

Welcome to Friday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan Gordon, the Forum's strategic communications VP, and the great Forum Daily team also includes Jillian Clark, Ally Villarreal and Clara Villatoro. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected] .??

**LAWSUIT THREAT** - The Justice Department says it will sue if Iowa enforces its new immigration law, Galen Bacharier reports in the Des Moines Register . In a letter, the department gave the state a May 7 deadline to "suspend enforcement of the law." Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton wrote??that the law "effectively creates a separate state immigration scheme," which "intrudes into a field that is occupied by the federal government."??

**ADMINISTRATION MOVES** - The Biden administration will allow Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, reports Amanda Seitz of the Associated Press .??The action changes the definition of "legally present" to include DACA recipients.??Separately, President Biden is expected to bring DHS official Blas Nu??ez-Neto onto the White House border team, report Stef W. Kight and Alex Thompson of **Axios** .

**AFGHANS HIDE**??- Around 1.7 million Afghans fled to Pakistan to escape the war in their own country. Now many of them are hiding to avoid deportation as Pakistan continues a??crackdown, report Riazat Butt and Adil Jawad of the Associated Press . "My life is here. I have no friends or family in Afghanistan, nothing," said one young Afghan man.??

Recently in??local welcome:????

* In Knoxville, Tennesse, the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame is honoring a program that has helped resettle women from the Afghanistan national women's basketball team. (Cora Hall, Knoxville News Sentinel) ??

* Athletes share their support for the Refugee Olympic Team ahead of the Paris Summer Olympics in this new video from the Olympic Refugee Foundation. The team will include Manizha Talash of Afghanistan, competing in the inaugural Olympic breakdancing competition, per UN News .????

* Pastor Amy Kasari leads a group at Antioch Church in Bend, Oregon, that has sponsored a Colombian family through the Welcome Corps. (Allison Frost, Oregon Public Broadcasting )??

**DIASPORA SUPPORT** - Recruiting already settled diaspora communities to help newcomers adjust, as well as speeding up work authorization, are some of the actions that could help cities to absorb migrants and asylum seekers more efficiently, Karen Jacobsen of Tufts University writes??in The Conversation .??"With adequate support, new arrivals usually find their feet and become self-reliant within a few months. Using federal and state resources to enlist host neighborhoods and diaspora communities in this process would help ensure that everyone benefits," Jacobsen writes. ??

Thanks for reading,????

Dan??

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