The Forum Daily | Tuesday, November 4, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

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For the second time in a month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rejected a request from faith leaders to provide Communion to immigrant detainees held in a facility in Broadview, Illinois, reports Gaby Vinick of ABC News [link removed]. 

The Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership (CSPL), a Catholic and Christian-rooted nonprofit, formally requested access more than a week in advance. Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson also wrote a letter on the group’s behalf, requesting permission. She did not receive an answer. 

"[Operation Midway Blitz] is creating such fear and trauma for so many of the families that we work with and that are members of our coalition," said Michael Okińczyc-Cruz, executive director of the CSPL. Almost 2,000 people attended a Mass the group held near the facility for All Saints Day and Día de los Muertos. 

In Texas, an immigrant Episcopal priest is being held by ICE after being detained last month, report Julián Aguilar and Haajrah Gilani of the Houston Chronicle [link removed]. 

As first reported by Jack Jenkins of Religion News Service [link removed], the Rev. James Eliud Ngahu Mwangi, who was born in Kenya and was legally employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, was detained while returning from his job. 

"This priest has served both the church and the state of Texas faithfully," Episcopal Bishop of Texas C. Andrew Doyle said in a statement [link removed]. "We are praying for his safety, for his family’s peace of mind, and for fair and humane treatment as this case moves forward." 

Welcome to Tuesday’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]. 

**‘ADDITIONAL HARM’ **— Council on National Security and Immigration leader Janice Kephart warned yesterday [link removed] that the new refugee cap will weaken the United States’ global standing. The president’s record-low limit runs counter to Americans’ persistent support for refugees, Gideon Maltz, chief executive of the Tent Partnership for Refugees, writes in his op-ed for The Washington Post [link removed]. "Tearing down the refugee resettlement program will not address any of the valid concerns Americans have about the border. It will only cause additional harm," Maltz writes. 

**SURVIVORS DEPORTED** — A federal lawsuit claims that the administration is unlawfully deporting survivors of crime and abuse with pending protective visas, including U visas, reports Rachel Uranga of the Los Angeles Times [link removed]. Nearly 500,000 immigrants await decisions on such visas, which Congress created to ensure immigrant survivors could help law enforcement without fearing deportation. "These laws have existed because they keep us all safe," said Sergio Perez, executive director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law. Read more on the visas from the Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force [link removed]. 

**WHAT DRIVES GROWTH** — The chief of one of the world’s largest asset managers says immigration policies are putting growth at risk, report Ambereen Choudhury and Denise Wee of Bloomberg [link removed]. "It’s not just illegal immigration that’s being stopped, but legal immigration, including the kind of immigration that’s really driven a lot of growth, a lot of prosperity, a lot of company formation in the U.S.," State Street Corp. CEO Ronald O’Hanley said during a recent summit in Hong Kong. 

**COMMUNITY POWER** — Marshalltown, Iowa, residents "are forging something special," Michael Chameides of the Rural Democracy Initiative writes in a Times-Republican [link removed] op-ed. About a third of Marshalltown’s residents are immigrants, and their small businesses drive the local economy. The community has persevered through an immigration raid 19 years ago and a destructive windstorm in 2020, Chameides writes: "People have come together to look out for each other and contribute to the economy."  

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

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