The Forum Daily | Monday, November 10, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

**THE FORUM DAILY**

A man who assisted U.S. troops in Afghanistan has been detained by Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE), reports Jennifer Brown of The Colorado Sun [link removed].  

Mohammad Ali Dadfar was one of thousands who feared for his and his family’s safety during the fall of Kabul in 2021. Three years later, the family made it to the U.S. safely and settled in Colorado. 

Last month Dadfar was detained as he drove a commercial truck through Indiana. He is now in a detention center in Missouri.  

"My husband worked for 14 or 15 years to fight the Taliban. We had a really hard time coming from Afghanistan and getting here to the United States," said his wife, who noted that her husband is on the legal pathway to asylum and has no criminal record. "Most of our lives have been under war, and now that we’re here, they detained my husband." 

While there have been bipartisan efforts to help Afghan allies resettle in the U.S. with certainty — see our summary of Afghan Adjustment legislation [link removed] and the Enduring Welcome Act [link removed] — actions by the Trump administration are pushing these goals further out of reach, report Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing and Daniella Cheslow of Politico [link removed]. 

"I fully support our legislation and President Trump’s work to secure the border," said Rep. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa), an Enduring Welcome Act co-sponsor. "Now we must also keep our word to those who fought alongside us." 

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 Leaders’ Message** 

* Evangelical body in US urges Trump administration to reconsider plan to drastically cut refugee admissions [link removed] (Chris Eyte, Christian Daily) 

* Catholic bishops of Texas say ‘we are with you’ as DACA recipients face another legal blow to their status [link removed] (Texas Public Radio) 

* Pope Leo's critique of Trump emboldens top US Catholics to help immigrants [link removed] (Joshua McElwee, Reuters) 

* Speaking out against unjust laws amid mass deportations [link removed] (Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski, OSV News) 

**ICE and Detention **

* $25M from ICE could cost Dallas in trust and control, public safety, immigration experts say [link removed] (Megan Cardona, KERA News) 

* An Arizona town is dreading plans to turn its prison into an ICE facility: ‘It’s morally objectionable’ [link removed] (Lourdes Medrano, The Guardian) 

* ICE's detainee population reaches 66,000, a new record high, statistics show [link removed] (Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News) 

**Temporary Protected Status **

* Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, many in South Florida, lose TPS after Friday [link removed] (Syra Ortiz Blanes, Antonio Maria Delgado and Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald) 

* Trump administration ending Temporary Protected Status for South Sudanese nationals [link removed] (Nicole Sganga, CBS News) 

* Map Shows Countries Where TPS Revoked—or Kept in Place—by Trump Admin [link removed] (Dan Gooding, Newsweek) 

**Other Headlines of Interest **

* CNSI Leaders Applaud DHS Action to Modernize Border Security Through Biometric Air Entry/Exit System [link removed]- 

* Teaching About Trump’s Immigration Crackdown [link removed] (Natalie Proulx, Jeremy Engle and Michael Gonchar, The New York Times) 

* In Padma Lakshmi’s Kitchen, the Key Ingredient Is Immigration [link removed] (Julia Moskin, The New York Times) 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

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