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THE FORUM DAILY
A series of consequential events related to immigration happened this weekend. First, on Saturday, the Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act 1798 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
"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].
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