The Forum Daily | Monday, January 27, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

**THE FORUM DAILY**

Welcome to an abbreviated edition of The Forum Daily. We’ll be bringing you just the headlines today through Wednesday because of other staff commitments. As always, please send stories for consideration to [email protected] mailto:[email protected]. The great Forum Daily team includes Jillian Clark, Soledad Gassó Parker, Dan Gordon, Broc Murphy, Clara Villatoro and Becka Wall. 

Our subject line refers to the jarring news that refugee resettlement agencies have been ordered to stop assisting refugees who have already arrived in the United States, as Priscilla Alvarez reports for CNN [link removed]. "The goal is self-sufficiency," an immigration attorney says. "You’re diminishing people’s access to services that help them become self-sufficient." 

In other key resources and headlines: 

New Forum Resources

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Forum Analysis: President Trump’s Executive Actions Relating to Immigration Enforcement and Mass Deportation [link removed]  

Forum Analysis: President Trump’s Executive Actions on Border Security [link removed] 

Forum Analysis: President Trump’s Executive Order on the U.S. Refugee Program [link removed] 

Landing page for Forum resources translated into Spanish [link removed] 

Displaced Allies and Others

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They Were Waiting for Flights. Then Trump Closed a Door for Afghan Allies. [link removed] (David Zucchino and Zia ur-Rehman, The New York Times) 

Trump Officials Pause Programs to Let In Immigrants, Including Ukrainians [link removed] (Hamed Aleaziz, The New York Times) 

‘An unconscionable betrayal’: Vermont groups scramble in wake of Trump order to halt refugee resettlement [link removed] (Auditi Guha, Vermont Digger) 

Trump cancels hundreds of WA refugee flights. How this nonprofit plans to respond [link removed] (Larissa Babiak, The Bellingham Herald) 

Refugees approved to resettle in WA stranded after Trump cancels travel [link removed] (Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks, Seattle Times) 

Faith

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Catholic bishop weighs in on Trump’s immigration crackdown [link removed] (CBS News) 

'Look in the mirror': Vance knocks Catholic organization for criticizing Trump immigration policy [link removed] (Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today) 

Transcript: Vice President JD Vance [link removed]  (Margaret Brennan, CBS News) 

USCCB Statement on its Work with the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program [link removed] 

New Letter: Evangelical Organizations Urge Administration to Respect Religious Freedom [link removed] 

World Relief Responds to Termination of Parole Sponsorship Programs & Threats of Deportation, Pleas for Mercy for Haitians, Venezuelans, Ukrainians, Afghans and Others at Risk [link removed] 

Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, turn to faith amid deportation fears [link removed] and video [link removed] (Luis Andres Henao and Jessie Wardarski, Associated Press) 

Immigration arrests inside churches? The Trump administration says yes [link removed] (Sam Benson, Deseret News) 

‘We go to cry with them,’ says nun as migrants lament Trump immigration orders [link removed] (Gina Christian, OSV News) 

As a Catholic priest, I see the change in ‘sensitive’ locations policy as a breach of my faith traditions [link removed] (Msgr. Hugh Joseph Shields op-ed, The Philadelphia Inquirer) 

Law Enforcement 
Police agencies won’t take part in immigration enforcement [link removed] (Scott Steepleton, Moorpark Acorn) 

Storm Lake Police Chief shares message on immigration policies [link removed] (Dean Welte, KTIV)  

States

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Federal appeals court upholds injunction blocking Iowa immigration law [link removed] (Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch) 

Mississippi bill would create bounty hunter program to hunt undocumented migrants [link removed] (Bonnie Bolden, Mississippi Clarion Ledger) 

'Everyone's nervous' — U.S. farmers gather in San Antonio ahead of mass deportations [link removed] (David Martin Davies, Texas Public Radio) 

Border, Enforcement and Deportations

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Florida Republican says deportation effort should spare some migrants [link removed] (Ali Bianco, Político) 

Pentagon Prepares to Deploy Thousands of Troops From Combat Units to Southwest Border [link removed] (Gordon Lubold, The Wall Street Journal) 

White House says migrant deportation flights with military aircraft have begun [link removed] (Brett Samuels and Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill) 

US, Colombia reach deal on deportations; tariff, sanctions put on hold [link removed] (Phil Stewart and Oliver Griffin, Reuters) 

Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests [link removed] (Nick Miroff 

 and Maria Sacchetti, The Washington Post) 

ICE arrests 956 Sunday as nationwide raids continue [link removed] (Anna Kutz, NewsNation) 

Kristi Noem confirmed by Senate as secretary of Dept. of Homeland Security [link removed] (Maegan Vazquez, The Washington Post) 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

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