The Forum Daily | Friday, January 17, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

**THE FORUM DAILY**

Leaders on the Council on National Security and Immigration, most of whom served in Republican administrations, released Policy Recommendations for the Second Trump Administration [link removed] yesterday. 

Its four focuses "provide a balanced approach to immigration reforms — one that secures our borders, advances our economic and national security objectives, and continues America’s tradition of humanitarian leadership," the council wrote. 

Also keep handy the Forum’s updated Immigration Principles for a Stronger America [link removed] and resource on potential immigration actions during the administration’s first 100 days [link removed]. 

At 2:15 p.m. EST on Wednesday, we’ll be hosting a Facebook Live with Jennie, Larry from our policy team, and key partners to get the lay of the land on the new administration and Congress. You can bookmark the link [link removed] now. 

The proposals continue to concern businesses. In Los Angeles, increased deportations would hurt rebuilding efforts after the fires and construction and housing more broadly, report Noah Sheidlower and Eliza Relman of Business Insider [link removed].  

"Everyone in and around Southern California that's in the housing market is going to feel this in some way or another," said Eric Finnigan, vice president of demographics research at John Burns Research and Consulting. Brookings Institution Fellow Chloe East said U.S.-born workers also would feel the effects: "When companies cannot find laborers for a building contract, they will also not hire architects and managers," she said. 

Meanwhile, Latino business leaders — including Trump supporters — are forming a coalition to advocate for bipartisan immigration solutions "prioritizing border security, and providing legal status for law-abiding ‘Dreamers’ ... and long-term undocumented workers in all industries," reports Laura Rodríguez Presa of the Chicago Tribune [link removed].  

For more on the Comité de 100 [link removed] and the solutions we need, put Massey Villarreal and Sam Sanchez’s USA Today [link removed] op-ed on your must-read list. 

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 Marcela Aguirre, Jillian Clark, Soledad Gassó Parker, Broc Murphy 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]. 

**LEGISLATION** — Measures cracking down on immigration enforcement continue to move in the new Congress — even those that largely would duplicate existing law, as Karoun Demirjian of The New York Times [link removed] reports. Sahil Kapur and Julie Tsirkin of NBC News [link removed] have the latest on the Laken Riley Act — and see our policy team’s recent take [link removed]. University of Arkansas professor Rocio Paez Ritter reminds us via Uriel J. García and Alejandro Serrano of The Texas Tribune [link removed] that crime rates are lower among immigrants than among native-born Americans. 

**FLORIDA** — "Extraordinary" among Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) proposals: Allow his administration to fly undocumented immigrants outside of the country and create consequences for local law enforcement who do not cooperate, reports Ana Ceballos of the Miami Herald [link removed].  

**THE PLANS** — The incoming administration is expected to end use of the CBP One app [link removed], reports Elliot Spagat for the Associated Press [link removed]. CBP One has offered an orderly, if limited, path for asylum-seekers at the border. On the immigration enforcement front: 

* Meg Anderson of NPR [link removed] reports on the logistical challenges of large-scale detention and deportation. 

* Stella M. Chávez of KERA [link removed] looks at the potential for workplace immigration raids. 

* Immigrant farmworkers are trying to prepare, Leah Douglas of Reuters [link removed] reports. 

**REUNIONS** — Samir Ahmadi’s family tried to escape Afghanistan as Kabul fell, but only Samir, then 14, made it out, reports Jazzmin Jiwa of Time [link removed]. He eventually reunited with his older brother, and now the two are anxious for their parents and younger sister to arrive.  

Elsewhere in local welcome, not just for Afghans: 

* The Afghan Community Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, has helped establish a welcoming community. (A.J. Rao, Erie Times-News [link removed]) 

* Once a refugee herself, Fowzia Adde now helps immigrants start new businesses. (Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio [link removed])  

* At Utah State University, Aggie Blue Bikes helps "repair bikes and donate them to refugees lacking transportation." (Malory Rau, The Utah Statesman [link removed])  

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

**P.S.** Catholic migrants in D.C. are leaning into their faith to give them hope, report Sarah Kim and Tyrone Turner of WAMU [link removed]. 

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