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In an exclusive interview with CBS News [link removed], acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Todd Lyons said that his officers will be cracking down on companies who hire undocumented workers and continue to arrest anyone in the United States illegally, even those without criminal records, reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez. 

“Not only are we focused on those individuals that are, you know, working here illegally, we're focused on these American companies that are actually exploiting these laborers, these people that came here for a better life,” said Lyons.  

Andrew J. Campa of the Los Angeles Times [link removed] summarizes the news on the latest escalations in immigration enforcement, including the use of Medicare records. 

Separately, on Friday, federal immigration enforcement officials seized an Afghan father of five and former interpreter for the U.S. military, reports Mona Mahadevan of the New Haven Independent [link removed]. 

The man, known as “Zia S.,” a Special Immigrant Visa recipient living in Connecticut, went to a routine appointment with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to submit biometric information for his green card application. After leaving the USCIS office, six federal agents forced him into an unmarked van, Mahadevan reports. 

Maggie Mitchell Salem, executive director of Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS), the Connecticut organization that resettled Zia and his family, highlights how the recent shift of policies is impacting people: “We all have to adjust what we think of as undocumented, because people are being made undocumented every day.” 

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, Nicci Mattey and Broc Murphy. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected] mailto:[email protected].     

**Economy** 

* Grow the Economy? Not With These Immigration Restrictions [link removed] (Claudia Sahm, Bloomberg) 

* Economic Warning as More Than Half-Million People Could Leave US This Year [link removed] (Hugh Cameron, Newsweek) 

* Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Hits Senior Care Work Force [link removed] (Madeleine Ngo, The New York Times) 

* In 1965, the government tried replacing migrant workers with high-schoolers. It was a disaster. [link removed] (Petula Dvorak, The Washington Post) 

* CBS News poll finds support for Trump's deportation program falls; Americans call for more focus on prices [link removed] (Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Kabir Khanna, CBS News)

**Federal Developments **

* Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE [link removed] (Kimberly Kindy and Amanda Seitz, Associated Press) 

* Additional Military Bases in New Jersey, Indiana Set to Host Migrant Detention Camps [link removed] (Steve Beynon, Military.com) 

* Prisoner Swap Frees Americans in Venezuela for Migrants Held in El Salvador [link removed] (Julie Turkewitz and Hamed Aleaziz, The New York Times) 

**Detainment and Enforcement **

* Alligator Alcatraz isn’t meant for minors. A 15 year old ended up there anyway [link removed] (Claire Healy and Ana Ceballos, Miami Herald) 

* Immigrants File Class-Action Lawsuit to Stop ICE Courthouse Arrests [link removed] (Luis Ferré-Sadurní, The New York Times) 

* LA Block on ICE Racial Profiling Remains After Pause Denied [link removed] (Maia Spoto, Bloomberg) 

* Men deported by US to Eswatini in Africa will be held in solitary confinement for undetermined time [link removed] (Gerald Imray, Associated Press) 

* Inside the Burlington office ICE has used to detain immigrants [link removed] (Miriam Wasser, WBUR) 

* Study finds immigration enforcement under Trump could cost California billions [link removed] (Paris Barraza, Palm Springs Desert Sun) 

**Personal Impact** 

* They came to the U.S. to attend middle school. Then the immigration crackdown began. [link removed] (Becky Z. Dernbach, Sahan Journal) 

* Fronteras: Researchers give voice to immigrant families, break down the costs of being undocumented [link removed] (Norma Martinez and Marian Navarro, Texas Public Radio) 

* He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared. [link removed] (ProPublica, The Texas Tribune, Alianza Rebelde Investiga and Cazadores De Fake News staff) 

* In Nogales, the few remaining asylum seekers hold out hope as shelters in Mexico clear out [link removed] (Nina Kravinsky, KJZZ) 

 

Thanks for reading,  

Clara 

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