The Forum Daily | Friday, March 7, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

**THE FORUM DAILY**Recent policy changes, including those on immigration, have turned the American economic outlook gloomier, report Ben Casselman and Colby Smith of The New York Times [link removed]. 

Economists affirm that deporting millions of immigrants could be even more detrimental than economic policies such as tariffs, especially considering current labor shortages in key industries like construction and healthcare, Casselman and Smith note. 

Amid mass deportation efforts, the dairy industry has raised concerns about the impact that immigration policy changes could have on their businesses and its consumers. A study of the National Milk Producers Federation indicates that removing immigrant labor would lead to a 90% increase in retail milk prices, reports Adam Yamaguchi of CBS Evening News [link removed]. 

Tadeo Ruiz Sandoval and Cristal Sanchez of KCUR/ KBIA [link removed] report on how ICE raid rumors affect local economies in Missouri.  

"Basically, the community climate that is negative towards newcomers or immigrants has a negative effect on their participation in the economy," said Corinne Valdivia, a researcher at University of Missouri. 

Separately, construction industry leaders expressed concerns on a new immigration bill in Utah that could worsen the labor shortages in their sector, reports Megan Banta of The Salt Lake Tribune [link removed]. 

Meanwhile, a business coalition launched an initiative asking the White House and Congress to protect and provide legal pathways to immigrant workers, reports Maria Villarroel of The Latin Times [link removed]. 

Welcome to Friday’s edition of The Forum Daily. I’m Clara Villatoro, the Forum’s assistant VP of strategic communications, and the great Forum Daily team also includes Jillian Clark, Soledad Gassó Parker, Dan Gordon, Broc Murphy and Becka Wall. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected] mailto:[email protected]. 

Immigration Enforcement and Deportation 

* Trump raids will now target migrant families who entered the U.S. with their children [link removed] (Julia Ainsley, NBC News) 

* Mass exodus of immigration officials could delay millions of deportations [link removed] (Lucien Bruggeman and Laura Romero, ABC News) 

* Vance promotes Trump’s ‘whole government’ immigration crackdown during visit to US-Mexico border [link removed] (Will Weissert and Valerie Gonzalez, Associated Press) 

* Trump weighs revoking legal status of Ukrainians as US steps up deportations [link removed] (Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke, Reuters) 

Refugee Stories 

* They survived the jungle to seek asylum. Now Afghans in Nebraska fear deportation. [link removed] (Nasrin Nawa, Flatwater Free Press) 

* America welcomed this refugee who fled the Taliban; now he's a founding CEO opening doors for job seekers facing adversity [link removed]  (Deborah Jian Lee, WPXI) 

* After fighting for the U.S., Afghans navigate life without resettlement aid [link removed] (Laura Dean, Nashville Banner) 

Other Immigration News 

* Immigration Judges and Court Staff Take Payout Offers to Leave [link removed] (Eileen Sullivan, The New York Times) 

* The Grim Realities of U.S.-Bound Migrants Stuck in Mexico [link removed] (Ryan Dubé, The Wall Street Journal) 

* Some Immigrants Have Less Than a Week to Enter the US Before Program Ends [link removed] (Dan Gooding, Newsweek) 

Thanks for reading, 

Clara

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