Some Republicans in Congress are expressing concern over how the Trump administration is treating legal immigrants from Afghanistan, especially those who helped us during the war, report Ximena Bustillo and Anusha Mathur of NPR. 

This year the administration has halted programs for Afghan nationals and other legal immigrants, and it ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Afghanistan. The measures intensified after the tragic shooting of the National Guard members last month. 

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) spoke on his concerns for Afghans who fought alongside U.S. troops and now face the loss of temporary or permanent immigration status: "One thing we've forgotten is how important that is for our special operators. It puts them in a more dangerous spot if we lose sight of that." 

ICYMI: The Council on National Security and Immigration weighed in on this topic in a recent statement. 

Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reportedly plans to change some enforcement tactics as polling indicates broad disapproval among Americans on how the administration is handling immigration, report Elliott Davis of The Hill and Ali Bradley of NewsNation. 

According to the reports, agents will favor traffic stop enforcement over public street apprehensions by the Border Patrol. A recently released survey by the Public Religion Research Institute indicates a drop in the president’s approval rating on immigration. 

Welcome to Tuesday’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]. 

SOCIALS — Yesterday marked the beginning of new review standards for H-1B visa applicants, reports Sam Stevenson of Newsweek. These included increased social media review requirements for H-1B visa applicants and their H-4B dependents. Going forward, applicants must make their social media pages public and provide social media handles from the past five years. Meanwhile, a group of 19 states is suing the administration over the new $100,000 H-1B visa fee, reports Madlin Mekelburg of Bloomberg Law. 

SAFETY — Protecting survivors of abuse and violence, and the surrounding population, "is the essence of community safety," retired Marshalltown, Iowa, Police Chief Michael Tupper writes in the Iowa Capital Dispatch. So Tupper, also a Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force member, is concerned about deportations of immigrant survivors. "When our immigrant neighbors feel confident in their local police, officers can fulfill their mission to protect everyone — and together, we create a safer community for all," writes Tupper. 

CITIZENSHIP BLOCKED — Naturalization ceremonies for people from 19 countries have been canceled, leaving many in legal limbo, reports a team at PBS News Hour. "This is a thinly veiled attempt to thwart people's efforts to become citizens of this country, in particular people from certain countries, from certain backgrounds," said Gail Breslow, Executive Director of Project Citizenship in Boston. "These folks have already been fully vetted. And this is, again, just a thinly veiled excuse to encourage people to leave this country." 

CLASSMATES — A club at Solorio High School in Chicago is raising money for classmates with immigrant parents in detention, reports Sarah Karp of WBEZ Chicago. The DREAM Team club has been raising money for the education of undocumented students for more than a decade. Now the students’ fundraising efforts have turned to classmates who see their parents detained by immigration authorities. So far, they’ve raised more than $6,000.  

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

P.S. Thanks to the reader who shared this follow-up: Ukrainian immigrant Viktoriia Bulavina, who had been detained after a green card interview in San Diego, was released last week, Kori Suzuki reports for KPBS.