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The White House is planning to increase efforts to remove citizenship from some naturalized Americans, reports Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times [link removed].

According to internal guidance that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) field offices received this week, the administration is seeking "100-200 denaturalization cases per month."

Experts including former federal officials are concerned about targets in guidance the administration claims is meant to counter fraud.

"Requiring monthly quotas that are 10 times higher than the total annual number of denaturalizations in recent years turns a serious and rare tool into a blunt instrument and fuels unnecessary fear and uncertainty for the millions of naturalized Americans," said Sarah Pierce, a former USCIS official.

As Linda Chavez wrote last week for The Next Move [link removed], "Denaturalization has usually been reserved for extreme cases involving individuals who egregiously lied during their applications for citizenship. ... These attacks show a contempt for the naturalization process, which has been an important part of America’s success at absorbing newcomers and making them into full-fledged Americans."

For a breath of fresh air after the president’s address last night, and ICYMI, listen to Jennie on this episode of Good Faith [link removed].

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 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].

**WORKFORCE DECLINE** — We've lost 1.1 million foreign-born workers since January, and new immigration restrictions are expected to deepen this decline, Stuart Anderson writes for Forbes [link removed]. For instance, an estimated 17,000 immigrant commercial truck drivers are expected to lose their licenses during the first week of January, reports Ryan Curry of KCRA [link removed]. "I don’t know if people realize this, but everything you’re wearing and eating and using is all delivered by a truck," said Dave Atwal, CEO of Diamond Trucking in Stockton, California.

**NEED FOR SOLUTIONS** — The administration’s pause on most asylum applications has a huge impact on people trying to follow the law, Sergio Martínez-Beltrán and Mary Louise Kelly discuss on NPR [link removed]. Meanwhile, the Bloomberg [link removed] editorial board calls for legislation. "Rather than demonizing [immigrants], what’s really needed is what Congress has been avoiding for two decades: a comprehensive reform that secures the border, increases the number of legal immigrants and creates a pathway to legal status for those currently in the country illegally," the board writes.

**NO PATH FORWARD** — As part of WUWM 89.7's "Status Pending," [link removed] a series about different immigration journeys, Xcaret Nuñez and Jimmy Gutierrez speak with "L," a woman in her mid-20s who has lived in the U.S. since she was 5 and has no path to citizenship available. Now a Ph.D. student, L says her passion for her studies stems from the feeling that despite her instability in the country she always has seen as home, "no one can take my education away."

**‘UNTHINKABLE’** — The "unthinkable has become routine," retired naval officer Jon Duffy writes in the Los Angeles Times [link removed], recounting the story of a 3-year-old girl expected to defend herself in immigration court. Funding for organizations that fill legal gaps for such children has been terminated, he notes. "This is not a question of procedure but one of character," Duffy writes. "Demanding that a toddler stand alone before the power of the United States is not enforcing order. It is abandoning morality."

Thanks for reading,

Dan

**P.S.** For 76 years, the Robles family has sold fresh Christmas trees in Los Angeles — an endeavor that began with a young immigrant couple’s entrepreneurial dream, reports Jeanette Marantos of the Los Angeles Times [link removed].

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