As a lawsuit challenging the administration’s revocation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Afghanistan goes forward, over 11,000 Afghan TPS holders will lose their work authorization and protection from deportation starting today, reports Andrew Kreighbaum of Bloomberg Law.

A request to keep the protections in place during the litigation was denied Friday by a federal judge. Leaving thousands in legal limbo, Kreighbaum highlights.

This is one of the first TPS designations to expire after the administration's immigration policy shift.

As Jennie said in a statement today, the impact will go beyond the TPS recipients: “[This] will disrupt the lives of thousands of beneficiaries, harm the communities that have integrated them, and remove essential workers from key sectors of the American economy that depend on their contributions.”

Meanwhile, eight out of ten U.S. adults agree "immigration is a good thing for the country,"according to a new polling by Gallup. This marks a drastic change in public opinion since the election and as immigration enforcement increases, reports Gisselle Ruhiyyih Ewing of Politico.

The strong approval for immigration reflected the poll is largely because of a shift among Republicans, Ewing highlights. This time, 64% of Republicans said that immigration is beneficial to the country, compared to 39% last year.

Despite the shift in public opinion, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times report the administration is gearing up to enact a new phase of its mass deportation plans after the passage of the reconciliation bill that expands funding for immigration enforcement.

According to The Times, with an additional $170 billion allocated to the Department of Homeland Security, the administration plans to hire 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, double the capacity of immigration detention centers, and construct additional miles of border wall.

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, Callie Jacobson, Broc Murphy and Marcela Aguirre. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected].

Immigration Enforcement

ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens (Maria Sacchetti, Carol D. Leonnig and Marianne LeVine, The Washington Post)

Federal judge signals a halt to indiscriminate immigration stops (Brittny Mejia and Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times)

Immigrants in overcapacity ICE detention say they're hungry, raise food quality concerns (Didi Martinez, Julia Ainsley and Laura Strickler, NBC News)

Orleans sheriff to stick with immigration policy in spite of new state law (Bobbi-Jean Misick, Verite, Louisiana Illuminator)

Economy and Immigration

"Not amnesty lite": Trump's new plan for migrant worker visas (Marc Caputo, Axios)

Trump’s deportations could cost 6M jobs, report finds (Kevin Hardy, Michigan Advance)

Mass Deportations Are Killing Small Businesses, Owners Say (Billal Rahman, Newsweek)

In California strawberry fields, immigration raids sow fear (Mary Milliken and Arafat Barbakh, Reuters)

Families and Communities Affected

Children Left Alone After Mothers Arrested in Immigration Raids (Tyler Hayden, Santa Barbara Independent)

Pastor Expresses Shock, Claims ICE Arrested Iranian ‘Christian Asylum Seekers’ Attending His Church (Billy Hallowell, Faith Wire)

Nashville volunteers deliver food, necessities to immigrant families too afraid to leave their homes (Nicole Valdes, CBS News)

The religious community of El Paso mobilizes in support of immigrants (Adelina Romero and Rebecca Raghunath, El País)

Head Start preschools to bar undocumented children under new Trump rule (Kalyn Belsha and Norah Rami, Chalkbeat)

Thanks for reading,

Clara

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