The Forum Daily | Wednesday, September 24, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

**THE FORUM DAILY**

We're anguished to hear the news coming out of Dallas this morning [link removed] and praying for all involved while we watch for further details. 

According to a new poll [link removed], Americans are more likely than they were last year to believe immigrants benefit the country, report Adriana Gomez Licon and Amelia Thomson-Deveaux of the Associated Press [link removed].  

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey found that American adults are more likely now than in March 2024 to say legal immigrants provide “major benefits” to American companies in need of expertise, training for their native-born employees, and U.S. economic growth.  

A bipartisan group of legislators led by Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pennsylvania) recently reintroduced a bill that would help address the workforce needs of businesses in the nonagricultural sector. Read Jennie’s take in the Forum’s statement [link removed]. 

On the other hand, in his speech to the U.N. general assembly, the president employed rhetoric of ruin in urging countries to strengthen border controls and reconsider global immigration, reports Andrew Roth of The Guardian [link removed]. 

But his crackdown here at home continues to affect U.S. military veterans, as Stephen Groves of the Associated Press [link removed] reports. “It breaks my heart that I fought for this nation to raise my children in this nation, and now I have to pull my children out of this nation if I get deported. Then what did I fight for?” said U.S. Marine Corps veteran Julio Torres. Read about more effects below. 

Welcome to Wednesday’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 Marcela Aguirre, Masooma Amin, Jillian Clark 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]. 

**TECH INDUSTRY** — The administration’s new rule on H-1B visas could damage tech and AI innovations, report Andrew R. Chow and Tharin Pillay of Time [link removed]. Meanwhile, in an “enforcement initiative,” the Department of Labor will scrutinize companies for H-1B compliance, aligning with the administration's crackdown on the program, Miranda Jeyaretnam reports separately in Time [link removed].  

**ARRESTS AND RECORDS** — Despite being prohibited by California law, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to arrest migrants in courthouses, reports Nigel Duara of CalMatters [link removed]. According to local media, at least two dozen people were detained on the grounds of the California court buildings. Meanwhile, Tennessee is fighting to keep records confidential after the Tennessee Highway Patrol assisted ICE with a Nashville immigration raid, reports Anita Wadhwani of Tennessee Lookout [link removed].  

**A COMMUNITY REELING** — In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, resettled Bhutanese are anxious about their status in the United States, muting a once vibrant community, reports Lok Darjee of The Guardian [link removed]. “[N]ow we’re in rapid-response mode, helping families make sense of deportations,” said Robin Gurung of the Harrisburg office of Asian Refugees United (ARU).  

For more stories on personal impacts: 

* Mixed-status families who fear deportations are making emergency plans. (Jasmine Garsd, NPR [link removed]) 

* Suburban Chicago parents voice concerns over immigration enforcement actions near their children’s schools. (Emmanuel Camarillo, WBEZ Chicago [link removed]) 

* A family in Massachusetts is accusing immigration agents of holding their 5-year-old daughter outside their home as part of an action to arrest the girl’s immigrant father. (Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio and Samantha J. Gross, The Boston Globe [link removed]) 

**REPUBLICANS ASSIST** — Some congressional Republicans are working to help constituents caught up in immigration enforcement cases in their districts and, in at least one case, calling for better legal-immigration channels, reports Katy Stech Ferek of The Wall Street Journal [link removed]. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-New York) commented that case in his district “is yet another example of why we must fix our broken immigration system and make it easier for folks to come here and stay, the right way.”  

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

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