The Forum Daily | Thursday, January 22, 2026https://www.forumtogether.org

Join us at 3 p.m. Eastern today for a Facebook Live [link removed] conversation about already vetted, resettled refugees who are being detained as part of the administration’s Operation PARRIS. 

Joining Jennie will be Max Finberg, Vice President of Government Relations at Chobani, and Matthew Soerens, Vice President of Advocacy & Policy at World Relief. 

Operation PARRIS, which stands for Post‑Admission Refugee Reverification and Integrity Strengthening, includes reopening the cases of 5,600 refugees living in Minnesota who have already gone through rigorous security screenings and were on their way to citizenship, reports Susan Du of The Minnesota Star Tribune [link removed]. 

Lindsey Greising, policy counsel for Advocates for Human Rights, says that the organization is filing emergency legal petitions to stop out-of-state transfers. 

The International Institute of Minnesota is checking on individuals they’ve assisted in recent years. "You’ve gone through an immense amount of screening, biometric screening, health care screening, FBI checks, immigration checks, DHS checks," said Executive Director Jane Graupman. "There isn’t a more vetted population than refugees." 

Separately, police leaders in Minnesota are criticizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tactics and expressing concern that federal agents asked some off-duty officers for proof of U.S. citizenship, WCCO [link removed] staff report. 

"[Community] trust is fragile right now, and it is an essential element to public safety," Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt said. "Today that trust is being damaged, broken by the questionable and sometimes unethical actions of some — some — federal agents." 

Mitch Smith and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs of The New York Times [link removed] have more on the leaders’ concerns. 

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, Malaika Onyia and Clara Villatoro. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected]. 

**BROADENING ENFORCEMENT** — A newly reported ICE memo declares that immigration agents can "forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant ... marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches," Rebecca Santana of the Associated Press [link removed] reports. Meanwhile, a focused immigration enforcement operation is under way in Maine, as Lea Skene and Sabrina Shankman of The Boston Globe [link removed] report. Emma Davis at the Maine Morning Star [link removed] has more on the local impacts, and the Portland Press Herald [link removed] is posting live updates.  

**CLASSROOM PAIN** — ICE raids are causing drops in academic performance, school attendance rates and college attendance in undocumented students and U.S. citizen children with an undocumented parent, scholar Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj explains in The Conversation [link removed]. "I believe that to best support students during these troubling times, teachers need better training and guidance on how to navigate challenging conversations about immigration enforcement threats, and how to deal with students’ (and their own) anxiety, uncertainty and trauma," Sattin-Bajaj said.  

**HOMICIDE** — Authorities have ruled the death of a Cuban man in an immigration detention facility near El Paso, Texas, a homicide, reports Aaron Martinez of the El Paso Times [link removed]. Geraldo Lunas Campos, a 55-year-old father of four, was being held in solitary confinement. Allegations of inhumane conditions and human rights violations have persisted since the facility opened in August. 

**‘A WAY OF LOVE’** — The Revs. Annie Taylor and Dan Johnson in Minnesota write in the Minnesota Reformer [link removed] about what their community is experiencing. As people deliver groceries to neighbors in need, Taylor and Johnson reflect that "[Jesus] understood helplessness. He understood the stakes, and yet he persisted in showing us, before ultimately dying from the violence, that another way — a way of love — is possible." 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

**P.S.** On Saturday, people from around the world gathered for a unique, transnational 10K run celebrating the shared history and culture of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, reports Dylan Foley of Hoodline [link removed].   

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