The Forum Daily | Thursday, May 8, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

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A majority of employers are concerned over workplace raids and possible labor shortages, reports Emily Peck of Axios [link removed]. 

The migrant workforce is the reason for most job creation in the U.S. since 2020, report Alicia A. Caldwell and Augusta Saraiva of Bloomberg [link removed]. It’s especially critical for states with low unemployment levels.  

"We are ground zero for these issues," says Bryan Slone, outgoing executive director of Nebraska’s Chamber of Commerce & Industry. "We have some of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. We don’t have people on the sidelines who can fill jobs." 

Many Americans believe that working noncitizens should be able to stay in the United States, according to new polling results from The Center Square Voters' Voice Poll, reports Dan McCaleb of The Center Square [link removed]. 

Two-thirds of the 2,500 registered voters surveyed responded that foreign-born seasonal workers, high-skilled workers or both should be able to stay. Fewer than 1 in 5 said neither group should be able to. 

Yvette Fernandez of Nevada Public Radio [link removed] reports that for the agricultural sector, the labor market is especially precarious, with 42% of its workers lacking authorization.  

The newly reintroduced, bipartisan Farm Workplace Modernization Act [link removed] would attempt to tackle this challenge. It's a hopeful step toward stabilizing the agricultural workforce, modernizing visa programs and building momentum in Congress for pragmatic solutions. 

Welcome to Thursday’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, 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]. 

**THIRD COUNTRIES** — A federal judge ruled yesterday that sending deported migrants to any third country without due process would violate his existing order, reports Kate Bartlett of NPR [link removed]. The edict followed a U.S. official’s confirmation of the administration’s plan to send deportees to Libya. Despite Libya’s denial of talks with the U.S. on the subject, the report was enough for lawyers representing a group of migrants to file an emergency motion, Bartlett reports. 

**CHECKS’ EFFECTS** — While the federal government says safety is the focus of its effort to track down all 450,000 unaccompanied migrant children admitted in the U.S. in recent years, some advocates are wary of the administration’s motives, report Amanda Seitz and Alanna Durkin Richer of the Associated Press [link removed]. For many communities, the checks are causing fear and confusion, report Andrea Castillo and Melissa Gomez of the Los Angeles Times [link removed].  

**STUCK** — They were approved for U.S. refugee resettlement after rigorous vetting, but now, 1,200 Afghans are stuck in Qatar while the program remains frozen, report Rebecca Santana and Farnoush Amiri of the Associated Press [link removed]. Meanwhile, Afghans already here who once worked with the United States are fearful of what could happen if they’re forced to return home, reports Andrew Schneider of NPR [link removed]. 

**ABUELA** —Ahead of Mother’s Day, Antonio Fins, politics and business editor at The Palm Beach Post [link removed], thanks his abuela and other immigrant workers for building the South Florida he knows and loves. "My grandmother's chapter in the United States speaks to a quintessential reality: American manufacturing, dating back to the Industrial Revolution, has always been dependent on bountiful, low-cost labor. But it is a piece of U.S. economic history that is conveniently overlooked in today's debate over tariffs and bring-back-the-factories vows," Fins writes.   

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

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