The Forum Daily | Monday, November 24, 2025https://www.forumtogether.org
This weekend, a federal appeals court refused to allow the Trump administration to expand their fast-track deportation process, which would expedite the removals of immigrants living far from the border, reports Nate Raymond of Reuters [link removed].
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling that the administration’s actions went against individuals' rights to due process. The judges cited "serious risks of erroneous summary removal."
Elsewhere, alongside emotional impacts, there is a steep monetary cost to widespread detention and deportation, report Rachel Adams-Heard and Elena Mejía of Bloomberg News [link removed].
The U.S. government cites an average cost per deportation of $17,121. Looking (with helpful visuals) at the case of Ventura Rubio, a Florida grandfather who was detained for 128 days in six Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities across the U.S., Adams-Heard and Mejía estimate that his deportation cost close to $26,000.
"This is a nationwide cost being imposed on all taxpayers, and it’s coming at the expense of other priorities that Americans care about," said David Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute. And as Jennie said, "The typical taxpayer does not understand how expensive this is, how inefficient this is and also how inhumane it is."
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 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
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**Immigration Enforcement and Communities’ Response**
* ‘The System Is Meant to Break You’: What ICE Is Doing to People Here Legally [link removed] (Sarah Wildman, The New York Times)
* Thousands of Immigrant Students Flee L.A. Unified Schools After ‘Chilling Effect’ of ICE Raids [link removed] (Ben Chapman, The 74)
* Child care workers are building a network of resistance against ICE [link removed] (Chabeli Carrazana, The 19th News)
* New Orleans braces for Border Patrol sweeps as anxiety grips immigrant communities [link removed] (James Finn, Times-Picayune)
* What Can Chicago’s Small Businesses Do if ICE Is at Their Door? [link removed] (Tara Mobasher, Borderless)
**Federal Actions **
* Mission Shifts Toward Immigration Enforcement Risk Weakening U.S. National Security [link removed] (CNSI Press Statement)
* Trump Admin Gives Mass Migration Warning to US Allies: ‘Existential Threat’ [link removed] (Shane Croucher and Dan Gooding, Newsweek)
* For Context: The Great Replacement Theory, Explained [link removed]
* The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal [link removed] (Sam Levin, The Guardian)
* Judge blocks IRS from sharing data with DHS for immigration enforcement [link removed] (Jacob Bogage, The Washington Post)
**Immigrant Labor and Talent at Risk **
* 'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians? [link removed] (Yuki Noguchi, NPR)
* The High Cost of Targeting International Students in Texas [link removed] (Lise Olsen, Texas Observer)
* The college dreams of 80,000 undocumented California students threatened by Trump suit [link removed] (Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times)
* Farmers Are Feeling the Squeeze From Trump’s Mass Deportations. Congress Isn’t Close to a Fix. [link removed] (Manuela Silva and Jade Lozada, NOTUS)
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