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.

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. 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 reports.

In Chicago, advocates and neighbors report aggressive tactics by immigration agents, reports Sophia Tareen of the Associated Press. 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.

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.

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. 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, 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].

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