The Forum Daily | Monday, August 8, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

**THE FORUM DAILY**The White House is walking back their claims that Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) had a quota of 3,000 immigrants arrested per day, report Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico [link removed].  

After federal judges asked for details on the high daily quota as a part of a lawsuit alleging that the pressure to meet this goal led to intense ICE raids in Los Angeles and other areas, lawyers for the Department of Justice denied the existence of "any numerical quota or target for arrests."

The inconsistency highlights a constant discrepancy between the public messaging of White House advisers and the legal arguments presented by the Justice Department, Politico notes. 

Separately, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nationals of Nicaragua, Honduras, and Nepal, reports Zach Montague of the The New York Times [link removed].  

Meanwhile, last week, the administration told DACA recipients that they are “not automatically protected from deportation” and encouraged them to self-deport, reports Andrew Stanton of Newsweek [link removed]. 

The statement by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin is a departure from President Trump’s repeated expressions of interest in a solution for DACA recipients, Stanton notes.  

In December, Trump told NBC News [link removed]’ Meet the Press that he wanted to find a way for DACA recipients to stay in the United States. 

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

**Federal Immigration Policy** 

* Fired immigration judges prepare to take on Trump’s Justice Department [link removed] (Nicholas Dale Leal, El País) 

* Report: Trump’s Immigration Bill May Cause Lifelong Harm to Migrant Children [link removed] (Documented) 

* Fewer Than 1,000 Trump Gold Cards Will Be Sold—Experts [link removed] (Billal Rahman, Newsweek) 

* Decision to unfreeze migrant education money comes too late for some kids [link removed] (Nada Hassanein, Stateline) 

**Economy** 

* Dallas Fed survey finds some businesses impacted by the Trump Administration's immigration policy [link removed] (Dylan Duke, KERA) 

* Deportations are taking a toll on California's economy - and have only just begun [link removed] (Terry Collins, USA Today) 

* ‘We came to contribute’: End of Venezuelan TPS threatens South Florida economy [link removed] (Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald) 

**Enforcement **

* Federal judge blocks Trump from swiftly deporting immigrants granted parole [link removed] (Marianne LeVine, Washington Post)

* ICE recruitment efforts upset some local law enforcement leaders [link removed] (Mike Levine and Laura Romero, Newsweek) 

* Migrant released from ICE custody with help from GOP lawmaker [link removed] (Jeff Arnold, NewsNation) 

* Fear grips one of Pa.'s biggest Latino communities as ICE raids take place nearby [link removed] (Gabriela Martínez, Spotlight PA) 

* Ohio city whose Haitian migrants were disparaged by Trump braces to defend them against deportation [link removed] (Obed Lamy and Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press) 

* The vast majority of men in ICE custody in Mass. are classified as 'no threat' [link removed] (Simón Rios, WBUR) 

**Personal Stories **

* ‘It’s a miracle’: A California father reunites with his family after weeks in ICE detention [link removed] (Ryan Carter, East Bay Times) 

* These women faith leaders protest mass deportations through prayer outside LA’s detention center [link removed] (Ryanne Mena, Los Angeles Daily News) 

* Soccer camp brings refugee and immigrant youth together [link removed] (Fatima Naqi and Molly Ashford, Nebraska Public Media) 

* ‘They treat us as if we weren’t human’: Migrant minors denounce deplorable conditions in US detention centers [link removed] (Patricia Caro, El País)  

 

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Clara 

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