The Forum Daily | Monday, Oct. 20, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

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Policies limiting entry for immigrant health-care workers and students could increase the existing labor squeeze in the American health sector, reports Eleanor Pringle of Fortune [link removed]. 

The need for skilled workers is particularly acute in geriatric care and will only increase with the population of adults over 65 expected to grow 42% by 2050 [link removed], notes Pringle. On top of the formal policies, some within the medical community believe that fear and uncertainty also will keep international talent away. 

"I think it’s going to be harder for people to trust the fact that they can come to this country and be able to stay and work here," said Dr. Brian Moreas, a physician in Boca Raton, Florida. "Other countries are actually economically starting to do better and it may be more lucrative." 

In The Conversation [link removed], Patrick Aguilar, Managing Director of Health at Washington University in St. Louis, delves deeper into how new visa fees could worsen doctor shortages in rural communities across the United States. Eram Alam, a Harvard professor with a forthcoming book on immigrants in health care, also writes on the subject in The Boston Globe [link removed]. 

On the subject of solutions, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-New York), co-chair of the Problem Solvers Caucus, writes in The New York Times [link removed] that both parties should acknowledge their mistakes and forge a different way forward. 

"Democrats must concede that Donald Trump was right about the importance of securing the border," he writes. " ... But Republicans have to realize that the Trump administration risks squandering the progress it has made by conducting raids on workplaces and neighborhoods throughout the country." 

Suozzi points to the need to target cartels and for legislation to reform asylum, improve guest worker programs and enable longtime residents to earn legal status. "These reforms would also reduce cartel profits, stabilize labor markets and give employers greater certainty," he writes. 

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 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]. 

**Faith** 

* How religions filled with pro-immigrant teachings motivate the faithful [link removed] (a team at Puente News Collaborative/El Paso Inc.) 

* Pope Leo Is Becoming Increasingly Vocal About Defending Immigrants From Trump’s Crackdown [link removed] (Connor Greene, Time) 

* 'What has happened to our heart?': Bishop Seitz calls for care of poor, migrants in address [link removed] (Jeff Abbott, El Paso Times) 

**Economy** 

* Immigration crackdown likely contributing to weak Texas job growth [link removed] (a team at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) 

* Trump’s immigration crackdown weighs heavy on the US labor market [link removed] (Paul Wiseman and Gisela Salomon, Associated Press) 

* Some Chicago Businesses Feeling the Impact of Trump’s Immigration Blitz [link removed] (Christina Morales, The New York Times) 

**Enforcement and Detention**

* Some Mexican immigrants are making plans to leave Chicago before ICE deports them [link removed] (Adriana Cardona-Maguigad, WBEZ Chicago) 

* Judge Demands Answers on Trump Immigration Crackdown in Chicago [link removed] (Mattathias Schwartz, The New York Times) 

* Dim days, bright nights: a hidden cruelty of ICE detention [link removed] (Lynne Peeples, The Guardian) 

* ICE tried to send one immigrant to a country he never lived in. Then he lawyered up. [link removed] (Ximena Bustillo, NPR) 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

**P.S.** The Forum’s policy team released two new resources Friday, one that addresses the U.S. truck driver shortage [link removed] and another on a proposed rule to change the H-1B visa lottery [link removed].

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