The Forum Daily | Monday, December 15, 2025https://www.forumtogether.org

The federal government is providing the names of all air travelers to immigration authorities, reports Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times [link removed]. 

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) provides air passenger lists to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) multiple times per week. It remains unclear how many arrests have occurred with this information.  

Historically, ICE has avoided interfering with domestic travel, Aleaziz reports. 

Elsewhere, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) is expressing concern about the pending end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and the effects on Springfield, Ohio, reports Anna Staver of Cleveland.com [link removed]. DeWine repeatedly has cited Haitians’ strengthening of Springfield’s economy, Staver notes. 

Casey Rollins is helping Haitian families prepare for the worst-case scenario as she starts to see the children of Haitian immigrants left in the U.S. without their parents, reports Amanda Becker of The 19th News [link removed]. 

As executive director of Springfield’s St. Vincent de Paul, a Catholic charity, Rollins has become an advocate for Haitian families in her community. These efforts include getting U.S. citizen children passports and making sure they have a legal guardian should their parents be deported. 

"I believe in people who believe in people," Rollins said while describing the number of community members and groups who are "transcending their politics" to assist these parents and children. 

More broadly, deportations of parents with U.S. citizen children are leaving teenagers to care for younger siblings, report Jack Brook and Sara Cline of the Associated Press [link removed]. 

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 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]. 

**Federal Policies **

* Thousands of Ethiopian Migrants Lose U.S. Deportation Protections [link removed] (Andrew Kreighbaum, Bloomberg News) 

* Why Trump's newly launched immigration program could mean legal chaos ahead [link removed] (Jason Lalljee, Axios) 

* Trump officials ‘conspiring to illegally intimidate’ noncitizens via new VA report, lawmakers say [link removed] (José Olivares and Aaron Glantz, The Guardian) 

* U.S. threatens to pull highway funds from New York state over noncitizen truck driver licenses [link removed] (David Shepardson, Reuters) 

* Trump’s Attack on Immigrants Will Redefine What It Means To Be American [link removed] (Linda Chavez, The Next Move) 

**Immigration Enforcement in Action **

* Green card applicants married to U.S. citizens face new uncertainty amid arrests [link removed] (Daniella Silva, NBC News) 

* ICE operation shows the difficulty of immigration arrests amid pushback in frigid Minnesota [link removed] (Gabe Gutierrez and Susan Kroll, NBC News) 

* Cracking down on citizenship ceremonies sends the wrong message [link removed] (The Washington Post editorial board) 

**Refugee Stories **

* N.H. writer looks back on her 'incredible luck' as a Cuban refugee in U.S. [link removed] (Lynn Jolicoeur and Lisa Mullins, WBUR) 

* Afghan refugees in Richmond fear fallout from immigration freeze [link removed] (Sabrina Moreno, Axios Richmond) 

* I came from Somalia at 19. Let me tell you about the America I met. [link removed] (Mohamed Osman Mohamed op-ed, The Washington Post) 

* Federal Policy Shifts Leave Ukrainians with an Uncertain Future in the U.S. [link removed] (Victoria Robertz, Documented) 

**Immigration and the Economy **

* How immigration impacts the Fed's view of the economy [link removed] (Elizabeth Trovall, Marketplace) 

* Economist: Immigrants contribute $26 billion to Minnesota's economy [link removed] (Nina Moini and Alanna Elder, MPR News) 

* Opinion: Illinois is running on immigrant labor. It's time we protect it. [link removed] (Anabel Mendoza and Dylan Blaha, Crain’s Chicago Business) 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

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