The judge agreed with lawsuit plaintiffs who hoped to block the policy before its instatement on Friday. According to the judge's ruling, the federal government didn't go through the proper review process before ending Temporary Protected Status for the group. She also commented that the decision was improperly influenced by politics.  

Elsewhere, a Catholic nonprofit and several Catholic clergy members who say that authorities are unlawfully blocking them from ministering to people held in the immigration detention center in Broadview, Illinois, are suing the Trump administration, reports Ashley Ahn of The New York Times.  

The Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership has been trying to access the facility since early September. The group argues that their lack of access goes against detainees’ freedom of religion. 

"For Catholics, pastoral care isn’t optional, we believe that it’s a lifeline," said Michael Okinczyc-Cruz, the nonprofit’s executive director.  

For congregants at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in west Chicago, the deadly shooting of Silverio Villegas González by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) marks a turning point in their growing anxieties around immigration enforcement, reports Camillo Barone of the National Catholic Reporter.  

Welcome to Thursday’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 and Clara Villatoro. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected].   

SOLUTIONS ON ORDER — Restaurants urgently need practical immigration solutions, writes Dan Simpson, CEO of fast-casual restaurant chain Taziki’s, in an op-ed for The Hill. Severe changes in immigration policy "are placing existing, lawful workers at risk of deportation and threatening businesses’ ability to serve our customers after we hired people through legitimate, vetted processes," he writes. 

ECONOMIC DAMAGE — Over half of the 600,000 Venezuelans whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was terminated live in Florida, where local officials believe the state's economy will suffer from the loss of their authorization, reports Valentina Palm of The Palm Beach Post. Separately, a new study from the University of California Los Angeles indicates that enforcement actions may stunt the economies of states with a higher percentage of Latinos, reports Carlos De Loera of the Los Angeles Times. Researchers looked at a balance of states with different political leanings. 

TECH, HEALTH CARE WORKERS — Yesterday the president reiterated his support for welcoming needed tech workers, report Natalie Allison and Cat Zakrzewski of The Washington Post. Meanwhile, a new analysis indicates that allowing more health care professionals to immigrate legally could lengthen life expectancies and improve the health of aging Americans, Stuart Anderson writes in Forbes. "Foreign-born workers are essential to both the supply of health care workers and research that leads to new pharmaceuticals and medical devices," University of North Florida economist Madeline Zavodny writes in the National Foundation for American Policy brief.  

‘A DIFFERENT COURSE’ — The administration's vastly reduced refugee cap without a consultation with Congress, together with a pre-existing lawsuit, cast great uncertainty on resettlement moving forward, reports Chris Johnson of Roll Call. Meanwhile, "Across party lines, Americans still believe in the value of offering refuge to people fleeing danger," advocates Sarah Sheffer and Kate Brick write in a Deseret News op-ed. " ... It is time four our leaders to chart a different course ...." 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan