The Forum Daily | Tuesday, January 21, 2026https://www.forumtogether.org

More than 20 years after its formation, the role of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its agencies are under scrutiny, reports Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times [link removed].  

Created in 2002 to combat international terrorism, DHS is now the U.S. government’s largest law enforcement agency, with about 250,000 employees. Now, as agents increase operations in U.S. cities, local law enforcement leaders are among those concerned with tactics and militarized operations.  

Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes said last fall, "The biggest question that I’ve been receiving is: How will we intercede if there’s a conflict between community members and DHS? Who will we side with? What will we do?" 

After the shooting death of Renée Good by an ICE agent in Minnesota, an array of new polls indicate that many American voters are reconsidering the role of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), report Patrick Marley, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Mariana Alfaro of The Washington Post [link removed].  

The findings include surveys from CNN [link removed], CBS News [link removed], Quinnipiac University [link removed] and The Economist/YouGov [link removed]. Even before the shooting, the public’s confidence in ICE operations was waning as images, videos and stories of enforcement tactics spread, the trio report. 

"We’ve seen a slow dripping downward of confidence in ICE [and] the person running it, and then Minneapolis happens," said Tim Malloy, a polling analyst with Quinnipiac.  

Journalists, we are glad to try to connect you with law enforcement leaders [link removed] and national security experts [link removed]. 

We hope you had a meaningful Martin Luther King Jr. Day and are continuing to carry the spirit of the day with you. To Hoosiers fans, congrats on IU winning its first national football championship. 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, Malaika Onyia and Clara Villatoro. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected]. 

**Immigration Detention and Enforcement **

* Third immigrant detainee at facility in El Paso has died, ICE says [link removed] (Laura Strickler and Daniel Arkin, NBC News) 

* Medical examiner likely to classify death of ICE detainee as homicide, recorded call says [link removed] (Douglas MacMillan, The Washington Post) 

* Five key ways ICE detention centers are booming under Trump [link removed] (Lauren Villagran, Ignacio Calderon and Jennifer Borresen, USA Today) 

* We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing [link removed] (Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk, ProPublica) 

 

**From Minnesota **

* They arrived as refugees but now are detained in Trump’s Minneapolis crackdown [link removed] (Arelis R. Hernández and Caroline O’Donovan, The Washington Post) 

* Inside Minnesota Hospitals, ICE Agents Unnerve Staff [link removed] (Jazmine Ulloa, The New York Times) 

* Liberian man arrested in Minneapolis raid was regularly checking in with authorities, lawyer says [link removed] (Tim Sullivan, Associated Press) 

* ‘It feels like an invasion’: Minnesotans stunned as federal officers flood their state [link removed] (Natasha Korecki, NBC News) 

* The Standoff That Has Turned Minnesota Into a Tinderbox [link removed] (Michelle Hackman, Kris Maher and Brenna T. Smith, The Wall Street Journal) 

**Federal Immigration Policy **

* Ghana took in Trump's deported West Africans. Then it forced them home [link removed] (Robbie Corey-Boulet and Emmanuel Bruce, Reuters) 

* MAGA wants a moratorium on legal migration, too [link removed] (The Economist) 

* A Boston hearing will look at the stakes of TPS for Haitians [link removed] (Hanna Ali and Nik DeCosta-Klipa, WBUR) 

* Our newly updated Explainer: Temporary Immigration Statuses [link removed] (National Immigration Forum) 

**Economy and Business **

* Immigration crackdowns impact Tennessee construction firms, survey finds [link removed] (Anita Wadhwani, Tennessee Lookout) 

* How the Suspension of Immigrant Visas Will—and Won't—Impact Travel to the U.S. [link removed] (Bailey Berg, Conde Nast Traveler) 

* Poultry Companies Quietly Connect With Democrats on Immigrant Policy Concerns [link removed] (Lisa Held, Civil Eats) 

**Welcome and Assistance **

* I accompany migrants in court. Their stories haunt me. [link removed](John J. Hurley, America) 

* Canopy NWA uplifts immigrant, refugee entrepreneurs in business expo [link removed] (Daniel Caruth, KUAF) 

* Tacoma Refugee Choir fosters joy as discord over immigration roils the nation [link removed] (Becca Most, The News Tribune) 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

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