The Forum Daily | Tuesday, October 14, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

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Business leaders and advocacy groups are banding together to urge for policies that grant work permits to long-term, tax-paying immigrants in the United States, amid widespread labor shortages, reports Billal Rahman of Newsweek [link removed].  

Employers in industries like construction, health care and agriculture warn that filling critical roles within their companies is becoming more difficult, Rahman reports.  

"We are calling for a common-sense work permit program that recognizes the essential contributions of long-term, tax-paying, law-abiding immigrant workers—especially those who have become indispensable to our economy and communities," said Massey Villarreal, Co-Chair of Comité de 100, a bipartisan coalition of prominent Mexican American and Latino business leaders. 

Separately, the Trump administration’s efforts to implement a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applicants has ignited a renewed interest in bipartisan efforts to reform the program, reports Hailey Fuchs of Politico [link removed].  

In an op-ed for The Boston Globe [link removed], Hardvard’s professor Eram Alam writes on how the new H-1B visa fee will threaten an already fragile health care workforce, cutting off the pipeline for much needed foreign-born doctors to come to the United States.   

Welcome to Tuesday’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 Masooma Amin, Jillian Clark, Nicci Mattey, and Dan Gordon. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected] mailto:[email protected].     

**More on the Economy and Immigration **

* Trump administration policy is another headwind for Las Vegas economy [link removed] (David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder, Marketplace) 

* History shows war against immigrants will backfire on all Americans [link removed] (Eduardo Porter, The Guardian) 

* Immigration crackdown will impact agriculture and food prices, Labor Department says [link removed] (Greg Hahne and Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services/KJZZ) 

**Immigration Enforcement **

* US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians [link removed] (George Chidi, The Guardian)  

* Illegal border crossings plunge under Trump in 2025, but numbers are rising [link removed] (Lauren Villagran, USA Today) 

* ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’ [link removed] (Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune) 

* Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump’s Admin Disappeared Them Anyway [link removed] (Tim Dickinson, Rollingstone) 

* Chicago ICE raids, National Guard troops prompt new lesson plans: ‘Know your rights’ [link removed] (Heather Schlitz, Reuters) 

**In the Courts **

* Circuit Court walks back judge’s block on Trump’s National Guard call-up in Chicago [link removed] (Gregory Svirnovskiy and Josh Gerstein, Politico) 

* US Loses Renewed Bid to Halt Legal Funds for Migrant Children [link removed] (Holly Baker, Bloomberg) 

* Attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia return to court as his deportation saga continues [link removed] (Laura Romero, ABC News) 

* Federal judge rules against ICE in the warrantless arrests of 11 KC-area workers [link removed] (Mary Sanchez, Missouri Independent)  

**Other News** 

* Emergency Medicaid for undocumented immigrants accounts for less than 1% of state spending: Study [link removed] (Liz Neporent and Mary Kekatos, ABC News) 

* Burkina Faso refuses to take deportees as US stops issuing visas [link removed] (André Rhoden-Paul, BBC News) 

* ‘The law didn’t respect them’: How the US deported thousands of citizens 100 years ago [link removed] (Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor)  

Thanks for reading,  

Clara 

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