The Forum Daily | Monday, November 17, 2025https://immigrationforum.org/

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The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown came to Charlotte, North Carolina, over the weekend, report Desiree Mathurin and Mary Ramsey of The Charlotte Observer [link removed]. 

The enforcement actions resulted in 81 arrests on Saturday alone, with more yesterday as Border Patrol agents spread out into surrounding suburbs.  

Members of a church in east Charlotte fled when agents arrived Saturday, reports Nick Sullivan, also of the Observer [link removed]. Meanwhile, area faith leaders are pushing back on the administration’s approach, Ashley Mahoney and Russell Contreras report in Axios Charlotte [link removed]. 

Immigrants and advocates gathered in downtown Raleigh yesterday to protest the operation in their state, reports Clayton Henkel of NC Newsline [link removed].  

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles, Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners Chair Mark Jerrell and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education Chair Stephanie Sneed issued a joint statement on the weekend’s events and ongoing operations. 

"Our region has thrived and grown because our strength lies in our diversity and our collective commitment to each other and to this community," they said. "Let us all — no matter our political allegiance — stand together for all hard working and law-abiding families." 

Elsewhere, in an op-ed video for The New York Times [link removed], Jemmy Jimenez Rosa, Ayman Soliman and Jasmine Mooney speak on their experience being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) despite having entered the United States legally. 

Despite the Trump administration’s promises to focus on dangerous criminals in immigration enforcement operations, 71% of those detained by the end of September did not have criminal convictions, the Times points out. 

In Chicago, only 16 people on a list of 614 arrestees had criminal histories, a team at the Chicago Tribune [link removed] reports. 

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 **

* Amid ICE raids, Chicago priests support immigrants with a whistle and a rosary [link removed] (Camillo Barone, National Catholic Reporter) 

* Catholic Bishops Rebuke U.S. ‘Mass Deportation’ of Immigrants [link removed] (Elizabeth Dias, The New York Times) 

* Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement [link removed] (Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post) 

**Legal Developments **

* A judge ordered the release of hundreds arrested in Chicago’s immigration crackdown. What happens next? [link removed] (Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN) 

* Court blocks new rules limiting which immigrants can get commercial drivers' licenses [link removed] (Josh Funk, Associated Press) 

* Paxton sues Harris County over legal support for undocumented immigrants [link removed] (Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune) 

* Judges quick to end immigrants’ asylum cases as ICE agents wait outside courtroom [link removed] (Christopher Magan and Elliot Hughes, The Minnesota Star Tribune) 

**Business and Economy **

* H-1B: Trump’s defense of controversial visa reverberates, while Bay Area business group lauds recognition of immigrants’ value [link removed] (Ethan Baron, Bay Area News Group) 

* Immigrant Workers Keep the U.S. Economy Running Even as Policy Turns Against Them [link removed] (Alex Segura, The Fulcrum) 

* How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts [link removed] (Todd Wallack, Maham Javaid and Susan Svrluga, The Washington Post) 

**Immigration Enforcement **

* How federal agencies’ roles have shifted in Trump’s immigration battle [link removed] (Andy Rose, CNN.com) 

* US hires 50,000 federal workers under Trump, boosting immigration roles [link removed] (Courtney Rozen, Reuters) 

* Once packed, ‘Devil’s Train’ sees migrant exodus amid US-Mexico immigration crackdowns [link removed] (Omar Ornelas, El Paso Times) 

**Local  **

* Contentious ICE partnership in Bucks County set to end after voters oust incumbent sheriff [link removed] (Jacob Geanous, Pittsburgh-Post Gazette) 

* Jenkintown is revising its police policy on ICE enforcement following community pushback [link removed] (Emily Neil, WHYY) 

* City Council aims to put $125k into immigrant rights training, hotline [link removed] (Gino Fanelli, WXXI News) 

* From undocumented to green cards: two sisters' immigration journey [link removed] (Emily Files, WUWM) 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

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