The Forum Daily | Monday, October 6, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

**THE FORUM DAILY**

There’s lots of news to catch up on since Friday. 

Following a long period of protest outside ICE facilities in Portland, Oregon, the president announced he would deploy federal troops, plunging the city into a turbulent weekend, report Claire Rush and Mike Catalini of the Associated Press [link removed]. 

The clash between protesters and federal agents included smoke grenades and other actions, as captured in a striking series of images compiled by USA Today [link removed]. Sunday night, a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration from deploying National Guard troops to Portland amid its escalating efforts to send out-of-state forces, as Maxine Bernstein of The Oregonian/OregonLive [link removed] reports.  

In Chicago, advocates and neighbors report aggressive tactics by immigration agents, reports Sophia Tareen of the Associated Press [link removed]. A different federal judge is expected to rule soon on the legality of some of the immigration arrests and detentions there, reports Jason Meisner of the Chicago Tribune [link removed]. 

Separately, the Department of Homeland Security is offering $2,500 to unaccompanied migrant minors older than 14 to self deport, reports Maria Sacchetti of The Washington Post [link removed]. 

The program is considered "strictly voluntary" and initially will be offered to the oldest minors in U.S. Health and Human Services shelters, Sacchetti notes. 

Finally, the Trump administration plans to set a record-low refugee cap of 7,500 admissions for the fiscal year that began last week and to prioritize white South Africans of Afrikaner descent, reports Ted Hesson of Reuters [link removed]. This past fiscal year’s "ceiling" was 125,000 — 7,500 would be a 94% decrease — and the lowest cap Trump set during his first term was 15,000. 

As we emphasized in a webinar in June [link removed], we can be a nation that prioritizes both security and compassion. In the words of Forum President and CEO Jennie Murray, "Decimating and repurposing our refugee resettlement system undermines the U.S.'s longstanding humanitarian commitments and will have negative impacts for those fleeing harm." 

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 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]. 

In the Courts  

* Federal appeals court rules Trump administration can’t end birthright citizenship [link removed] (Michael Casey, Associated Press) 

* Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected immigration status for thousands of Venezuelans [link removed] (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News) 

* Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation case back before Maryland judge [link removed] (Ely Brown, ABC News) 

Families, Children and Immigration 

* Orlando family, US citizens ready to self-deport to Honduras with immigrant husband [link removed] (Luana Munoz, WESH 2) 

* PBS Taught Me English. Shutting It Down Hurts Immigrant Kids. [link removed] (Priscilla Blossom, Time) 

* ‘Can I just be a kid?’ Students shaken by immigration raids seek help from school counselors [link removed] (Ana B. Ibarra, CalMatters) 

* Mother, Children Detained By Feds Downtown Released, Father Sent To Texas Detention Center [link removed] (Molly DeVore, Block Club Chicago) 

* Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’ [link removed] (Maanvi Singh, The Guardian) 

Economy 

* Florida farmers struggle as legal foreign workers worry about immigration crackdown [link removed] (Natalia Jaramillo, Orlando Sentinel) 

* North Country farms are caught between labor shortages and visa limits [link removed] (David Escobar, North Country Public Radio) 

* US Politicians Need to Bone Up on Immigration Economics [Opinion] [link removed] (Clive Crook, Bloomberg) 

* Ending immigration programs will disproportionately affect healthcare and long-term care settings like assisted living, lawmakers say [link removed] (Kimberly Bonvissuto, McKnight’s Senior Living) 

More Headlines of Note  

* Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration [link removed] (Kanishka Singh and Jaspreet Singh, Reuters) 

* U.S. used a transnational crime unit to secretly target campus protesters [link removed] (Joanna Slater and John Hudson, The Washington Post) 

* One Girl’s Journey After Her Grandma Said to Kill Her [link removed] (Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times) 

* What do Bad Bunny and the pope have in common? More than you think | Opinion [link removed] (Reyna Montoya, Arizona Republic) 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan  

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