The Forum Daily | Monday, August 11, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

**THE FORUM DAILY**The sudden changes to the immigration statuses of thousands has left immigrant communities across the United States uncertain of their future and the companies they work for without the necessary labor, reports Andrea Hsu of NPR [link removed].  

More than half a million immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela were stripped of their humanitarian parole. An ongoing legal battle aims to prevent immediate deportations, but, as the litigation drags on, employers are forced to remove affected workers from payroll.

"It's killing me, because I'm watching them walk out. I know these people because I work with them every day,"said Tom Torres, a mechanic for Kraft Heinz in Holland, Michigan.  

In Iowa, a meatpacking plant in Ottumwa was forced to let 200 workers go in July due to the changes in immigration status, reports Donnelle Eller of the Des Moines Register [link removed]. 

Eller notes that the Meat Institute, the industry’s lobbying group, estimates that 20% of the American meat packing workforce have lost or will lose their jobs due to the shutdown of programs like humanitarian parole.  

Additionally, in Maryland, the local poultry industry is home to many Haitian workers, reports Paul Kiefer of The Washington Post [link removed].  

Now, many are uncertain of their future. 

"I have so much to lose,"said Michelle, a Haitian poultry worker who spent more than a decade at Perdue’s Salisbury plant. "And I have nowhere else to go."

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]. 

**More on Workforce & Immigration** 

* Trump’s immigration crackdown could cause widespread workforce disruption [link removed] (Katie Johnston, Boston Globe) 

* Mass Deportations Are Worsening the Caregiving Crisis [link removed] (Whitney Curry Wimbish, American Prospect) 

* Migrants in Connecticut Flee Workforce Fearing Detention: 'It is Discouraging and Disruptive' [link removed] (Maria Villarroel, Latin Times) 

* As legal status is set to end for many Haitians, Mass. health care sector braces for staffing shortages [link removed] (Simón Rios, WBUR) 

**Federal Policies **  

* Trump calls for a new census to exclude undocumented immigrants [link removed] (Alejandra Jaramillo and Ethan Cohen, CNN) 

* Trump’s plan to hold migrants at military bases begins taking shape [link removed] (Maria Sacchetti, Dan Lamothe, David Nakamura and Douglas MacMillan, The Washington Post) 

* DOJ tells judge it will ask Supreme Court to quickly rule on constitutionality of Trump’s birthright citizenship order [link removed] (Devan Cole, CNN) 

**Immigration Enforcement **

* Migrants Vanish Into Opaque ICE Detention System [link removed] (Ruth Simon, Elizabeth Findell, and Tarini Parti, The Wall Street Journal) 

* Judges Press for Answers on Federal Involvement in Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ [link removed] (Patricia Mazzei, The New York Times) 

* After a Lull, Agents Conduct a Big Immigration Raid in L.A. [link removed] (Jesus Jiménez and Orlando Mayorquín, The New York Times) 

* Detention cells in Baltimore designed for short stays instead confine immigrants for days [link removed] (John-John Williams IV, Sapna Bansil and Daniel Zawodny, The Baltimore Banner) 

* ‘Incredibly dystopian’: ICE enforcement upends lives for rural Delaware communities [link removed] (José Ignacio Castañeda Perez, Spotlight Delaware) Federal law enforcement to begin interviewing unaccompanied migrant children in government custody [link removed]  [link removed](Priscilla Alvarez, CNN)

**Families Affected**  

* After ICE raids, Norristown and Princeton communities are stepping up to help families impacted by detention [link removed] (Emily Neil, WHYY) 

* As school starts in South Florida, families fear increased immigration enforcement [link removed] (Clara-Sophia Daly, The Miami Herald) 

* ICE’s family separations are forcing children to parent themselves – Opinion [link removed] (Diana Fishbein, The Hill) 

Thanks for reading,  

Clara 

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