The Forum Daily | Monday, September 15, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

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The president's goal of having the “largest deportation program in American history” is running up against his need for American businesses to succeed, report Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times [link removed].  

Within the past few weeks, President Trump has commented on possible reversals or changes to his mass deportation plans as businesses and employers have spoken out. Last week, he considered allowing hundreds of South Korean workers arrested in a raid to stay in the United States and help finish the construction of an electric vehicle battery plant in Georgia. 

“[H]e’s always had a soft spot for the economic needs from a business perspective,” said David J. Bier, the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute.  

Another tension in the administration’s deportation plan is based on logistics, reports Myah Ward of Politico [link removed]. The administration’s recent efforts in cities including Chicago, Boston, and Washington, D.C., have upped the number of detainees, despite the limited number of beds available.  

“Do they have enough transportation? Can they move people fast enough?” said one Department of Homeland Security official. “There are all sorts of pieces to this pipeline, and if any one of them gets clogged, it slows everything down.”   

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

**Welcoming Week Celebrations** 

* Dayton kicks off Welcoming Week to celebrate diversity and promote community unity [link removed] (Kysha Hancock, Dayton 24/7 Now) 

* Lancaster renews commitment as a "welcoming city"amid ICE deportations [link removed] (Alex Thill, CBS 21) 

* Tulsa serves as host city for national Welcoming Week Kickoff Event [link removed] (Fox 23 News) 

* City kicks off Welcoming Week with naturalization ceremony and celebration [link removed] (WSOC-TV) 

**Federal Efforts **

* 33 million voters have been run through a Trump administration citizenship check [link removed] (Jude Joffe-Block and Miles Parks, NPR) 

* How Do You Prove Your Citizenship? [link removed] (Nick Miroff, The Atlantic) 

* Trump’s deportation hub: inside the ‘black hole’ where immigrants disappear [link removed] (Oliver Laughland, Will Craft and Raima Amjad, The Guardian) 

* US judge extends block on deportations of unaccompanied Guatemalan migrant children [link removed] (Ted Hesson and Emily Green, Reuters) 

* Lawsuit says U.S. deported migrants to Ghana to sidestep restrictions [link removed] (Gaya Gupta, The Washington Post) 

**State and Local** 

* Tennessee nonprofits scramble to aid immigrant crime victims amid new federal rules [link removed] (Anita Wadhwani, Tennessee Lookout) 

* Families in crisis after massive immigration raid at Hyundai plant in Georgia [link removed] (Safiyah Riddle, Associated Press) 

* California lawmakers pass bill to ban ICE agents from wearing masks [link removed] (Lindsey Holden, Politico) 

* A portrait of immigrants in Chicago: Immigrant population reaches its highest point in nearly two decades [link removed] (Amy Qin, WBEZ Chicago) 

**Faith **

* To Save Our Churches, Pass the Dignity Act Instead of Funding Deportations [link removed] (The Rev. Dr. Walter Kim, DC Journal) 

* The 'complicated' path to spiritual care in ICE detention [link removed] (Fiona Murphy, Religion News Service) 

* Trump's policy threatens religious liberty of immigrants, Catholic leaders say [link removed] (Patricia Zapor, National Catholic Reporter) 

* US Catholic bishops decry Trump’s immigration raids upending church life [link removed] (Luis Andres Henao, Associated Press) 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

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