The Forum Daily | Friday, Oct. 17, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

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A new study suggests that immigration restrictions could reduce our workforce by nearly 7 million people in the next three years, and more than double that in the next 10, Russell Contreras of Axios [link removed] reports.

The study, from the National Foundation for American Policy, suggests that people entering the workforce could not counter the effects of shrinking legal immigration and crackdowns on unauthorized immigrants.

"The drop in workers could alter the nation's projected demographics [link removed] and make it difficult to revive manufacturing jobs [link removed] — or to attract workers in health, agriculture and energy [link removed] as the population ages," Contreras writes.

The study does not take into account new actions restricting foreign workers with certain advanced skills, he notes — and the effects of such actions are playing out in real time.

Current H-1B visa holders are vanishing from the U.S. housing market, Giulia Carbonaro reports in Newsweek [link removed]. They are among nonpermanent residents who are no longer eligible for mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration, with effects on overall housing demand in certain key markets, Carbonaro reports.

In California's Bay Area, some tech companies have started disqualifying candidates who require visa H-1B sponsorship, reports Ko Lyn Cheang of the San Francisco Chronicle [link removed]. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and University of Washington medical institutions have stopped sponsoring H-1B visas for researchers, attributing the pause to policies including the new $100,000 fee, reports Nina Shapiro of The Seattle Times [link removed].

Yesterday the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the administration over the fee, as Lillian Rizzo of CNBC [link removed] reports. At the same time, the fee is generating new interest in potential fixes in Congress, Hailey Fuchs writes in Politico [link removed].

Welcome to Friday’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, 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].

**U.S. CITIZENS **— More than 170 American citizens have been caught up in immigration sweeps, with many treated roughly in the process, Nicole Foy reports in ProPublica [link removed] with photos by Sarahbeth Maney. The count likely is incomplete, Foy notes, because the government doesn’t track such cases. More recently, citizens have been detained amid enforcement operations in Chicago, Billal Rahman of Newsweek [link removed] reports.

**CONSUMER SPENDING **— Immigration raids in major cities are disrupting key industries, but the economic impact reaches beyond the workplace to broader market activity and growth, reports Nathaniel Meyersohn of CNN Business [link removed]. Unauthorized immigrants’ consumer spending was about $300 billion [link removed]. in 2023 alone, he reports. Meyersohn cites business struggles in Chicago, and Lauren Pozen of CBS News Los Angeles [link removed] reports on similar challenges in East L.A. 

**SURVIVORS **— Survivors of crime are suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), saying that immigration enforcement actions targeting them "violate the immigration relief provisions of the Violence Against Women Act [link removed] and other measures that Congress established to safeguard victims and encourage them to work with the authorities," Jazmine Ulloa of The New York Times [link removed] reports. Previous ICE guidance, rescinded earlier this year, called for protection of immigrants who had experienced serious crimes, Ulloa notes. 

**RESETTLEMENT SUPPORT** — An Afghan family is finding community in West Des Moines, Iowa, with the support of a group of local neighbors, reports Olivia Tyler of KCCI [link removed]. Arifa Zaki, the mother, had provided evacuation support to the U.S. government as the Taliban took over the country in 2021. Read more about the Zakis and their community’s support from Welcome.US [link removed]. Meanwhile, three Afghan allies are suing the State Department over blocked access to Special Immigrant Visas, reports Pablo Manríquez of Migrant Insider [link removed].

Thanks for reading, 

Dan

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