The Forum Daily | Monday, March 17, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

**THE FORUM DAILY**A series of consequential events related to immigration happened this weekend. First, on Saturday, the Trump administration invoked [link removed] the Alien Enemies Act 1798 [link removed] to target the Venezuelan criminal group Tren De Aragua. Hours later, a federal judge ordered a two-week halt to any deportation efforts under the Enemies Act, after a lawsuit on behalf of five Venezuelan immigrants was provisionally turned into a class action, as reported by Myah Ward, Kyle Cheney, Ali Bianco and Josh Gerstein of Politico [link removed]. 

In the meantime, the administration deported over 200 of Venezuelans to El Salvador, report Devlin Barrett, Annie Correal, and William K. Rashbaum of the The New York Times [link removed]. 

The White House argued that the judge’s order was not violated as the migrants were no longer on U.S. soil at the time of the order, the Times notes.  

The U.S. will pay El Salvador’s government $6 million to detain the deportees in one of the country’s notorious prisons, established in 2023 as part of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s sprawling effort to incarcerate alleged gang members, report Marcos Alemán and Regina Garcia Cano of the Associated Press [link removed]. 

Separately, a draft list reveals the 43 countries the Trump administration is considering targeting with significant travel restrictions, 11 countries, including Afghanistan, Cuba, and Syria would be banned completely, Charlie Savage and Ken Bensinger of  The New York Times [link removed] report. 

Meanwhile, a group of nine Haitians and a Protestant group are suing the Trump administration over the early termination of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti which would leave half million people in legal limbo, reports Jacqueline Charles of the Miami Herald [link removed]. 

"The sudden curtailing of Haiti’s TPS designation has created tremendous fear and stress among hundreds of thousands of law-abiding and hardworking TPS holders and their families," said Pastor Samuel Nicolas, president of the Haitian Evangelical Clergy Association. 

Welcome to Monday’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].    

Federal Actions 

* Trump Administration Revives Detention of Immigrant Families [link removed] (Jazmine Ulloa and Miriam Jordan. The New York Times) 

* ICE already short $2 billion as Trump's immigration crackdown ramps up [link removed] (Stef W. Kight and Brittany Gibson, Axios). 

* Trump Branding Migrants as Criminals Is Complicating Plans to Bring Them Home [link removed] (Michael D McDonald, Bloomberg).  

* Trump's immigration policies will likely slow economic growth [link removed] (Courtenay Brown, Axios). 

* Trump's team sets historic test of immigrants' speech rights [link removed] (Russell Contreras and Brittany Gibson, Axios).

State News 

* Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton investigating Dallas over immigration policies [link removed] (Ryan Osborne, WFAA). 

* Montana law enforcement say they're ICE'd out of immigration enforcement [link removed] (Andrea Lutz, KTVQ). 

* Wisconsin sheriffs are being called on to assist ICE. How they’re responding varies widely [link removed] (Eva Wen, Gina Castro and Bridget Fogarty, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Janani Janarthanan, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism). 

Stories behind the policies 

* He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center. [link removed] (Lauren Villagran, USA Today) 

* Undocumented mom of U.S. citizen girl with brain cancer who was removed to Mexico pleads for family's return [link removed] (Nicole Acevedo, NBC News). 

* Venezuelan couple living in DC under protected status arrested by officials [link removed] (Mike Murillo, WTOP News). 

* Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge’s Order [link removed] (Dana Goldstein, The New York Times) 

* Immigrants have been held for days in a bedless Baltimore ICE office  [link removed] (John-John Williams IV and Daniel Zawodny, The Baltimore Banner). 

Thanks for reading, 

Clara 

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