The Forum Daily | Monday, February 10, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

**THE FORUM DAILY**A federal judge agreed to a restraining order blocking the U.S. government from sending three Venezuelan men to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, reports Brad Brooks of Reuters [link removed].  

Lawyers from Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, the ACLU of New Mexico and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed for a temporary restraining order for the migrant men as lawyers worry over the "legal black hole" migrants are thrown into by being sent to the naval base in Cuba, reports Silvia Foster-Frau of The Washington Post [link removed]. 

More than three dozen migrants are being held at the prison already, and multiple lawyers familiar with the facility say the Trump administration is breaking the law by not offering access to legal representation. 

"It is essential to know who is there, what legal claims they have and whether they want attorneys," American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Lee Gelernt said.  

Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that she is confident in the legality of the administration’s actions, reports Sarah Fortinsky of The Hill [link removed].  

Photographer Doug Mills of The New York Times [link removed] has some of the first independent images from the tent city being built at Guantánamo, with reporting by Carol Rosenberg. 

Separately, in a piece co-published in ProPublica [link removed] and The Texas Tribune [link removed], Mica Rosenberg and Perla Trevizo review the president’s flurry of executive orders in his first two weeks and what each one means for the U.S. immigration system and individual immigrants.  

Welcome to Monday’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 Jillian Clark, Soledad Gassó Parker, Broc Murphy, Clara Villatoro 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]. 

**HUMAN DIGNITY** — A group of 103 migrants were shackled during during a 40-hour deportation flight to India, igniting anger, reports a team at CNN [link removed]. "If we would try to stand because our legs were swelling due to the handcuffs, they would yell at us to sit down," said Sukhpal Singh, a deportee and father of two. Separately, the Trump administration will detain migrants at federal prisons and jails — an approach under which allegations of mistreatment emerged during Trump’s first term, reports Michael R. Sisak of the Associated Press [link removed]. 

**RUMORS AND FEAR** — Foreign-born American citizens and others here lawfully are expressing anxiety about getting swept into immigration raids, reports Erica Pandey of Axios [link removed]. Some are advising one another to keep their passports and visas on them at all times. In Florida’s Miami-Dade school district, students, parents and teachers are on edge over rumors of immigration raids and the recent deportation of a teacher, reports Clara-Sophia Daly of the Miami Herald [link removed].  

**BUSINESS IMPACTS** — Local Latino business leaders in Louisiana are speaking out against the Trump administration as foot traffic declines and employees are afraid to go to work, reports James Finn of Nola.com [link removed]. Elsewhere, the closure of a Texas farm after three immigration raids have affected a Detroit nonprofit it was sourcing, reports Bre'Anna Tinsley of Detroit Public Radio [link removed]. Hey Y’all Detroit, a local nonprofit, had to shut down after not receiving enough groceries to feed families in need whom it served. 

**EVANGELICALS** — Some evangelical leaders are speaking out against the administration’s policies around foreign aid and immigration, reports Nicole Acevedo of NBC News [link removed]. One of them, the Rev. Dr. Gabriel Salguero, recently joined a podcast worth your time, WOSU Public Media’s [link removed] "All Sides" with Amy Juravich. Viles Dorsainvil, executive director of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center in Springfield, Ohio, also speaks poignantly. And Latino evangelical leaders across the Southeast are among those asking Trump to reconsider his decision to allow immigration enforcement in churches, reports Deepa Bharath of the Associated Press [link removed]. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

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