The Forum Daily | Tuesday, February 10, 2026https://www.forumtogether.org

Of the close to 400,000 immigrants arrested in the current administration’s first year, less than 14% had been convicted of or charged with violent offenses, reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS News [link removed]. 

The source of the data, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document, run counter to the administration’s "frequent assertions" about whom its immigration crackdown is targeting, Montoya-Galvez notes. 

The news emerges as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) looks to shift tactics while staying with its mass-deportation goals, Nick Miroff of The Atlantic [link removed] reports. 

One area to watch: ICE’s policy sanctioning agents to enter homes forcibly with an administrative warrant, not one signed by a judge. 

"We urge the Department of Homeland Security to adhere to the Constitution and end the practice of conducting forcible entry into homes without judicial warrants," half a dozen former DHS general counsels or acting general counsels who served in Republican and Democratic administrations write in a New York Times [link removed] op-ed. 

Immigration attorney Raul A. Reyes makes similar points in his Los Angeles Times [link removed] op-ed and notes broader privacy and civil liberties implications. The policy "threatens people in the sanctity of their own homes and puts Americans at risk of intrusive government overreach," he writes. 

Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan Gordon, and the great Forum Daily team also includes Jillian Clark, Nicci Mattey, Malaika Onyia, Luisa Sinisterra and Clara Villatoro. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected] mailto:[email protected]. 

**HEARING TODAY **— Several federal immigration officials are appearing now before the House Homeland Security Committee ahead of the DHS funding deadline on Friday, report Kaia Hubbard and Melissa Quinn of CBS News [link removed]. "I am committed to ensuring ICE, [Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services] are effectively using the historic resources provided through reconciliation to strengthen public safety," Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-New York), who requested the hearing, said. " ... Transparency and communication are needed to turn the temperature down." 

**APPEALS** — A federal appeals court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for about 60,000 people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua, reports Chris Cameron of The New York Times [link removed]. Meanwhile, on Friday the administration appealed a judge’s ruling blocking the end of TPS for Haitians, reports Jacqueline Charles of the Miami Herald [link removed]. And in The xxxxxx [link removed], Jonathan Cohn writes that Haitians with TPS are a part of a crucial immigrant workforce in the care of seniors and people with disabilities.  

**THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR** — The administration plans to test a citizenship question ahead of the 2030 census amid its talk of omitting noncitizens from the count, Hansi Lo Wang of NPR [link removed] reports. The Supreme Court blocked the first Trump administration’s 2018 plans to include such a question in 2020. Our initial take [link removed] and deeper dive [link removed] in 2018 are still relevant: Such a change would hurt red states, not just blue ones. 

**COMMUNITY FEARS** — Brevard County, Florida, residents say increased immigration enforcement is affecting homes, churches and schools, reports Finch Walker of Florida Today [link removed]. "[E]ven American citizens are scared because they feel like ICE is just going to randomly stop people," said Seeta Begui, a naturalized citizen originally from Trinidad. "And you have to have your documents to prove who you are." Joel Tooley, a Melbourne pastor and Forum mobilizer, has seen the effects in his own congregation and others. Each one calls for balanced immigration solutions. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

**P.S.** "Sinners" producer Sev Ohanian is making history as the first Armenian American immigrant to receive a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards, report Monica Bushman and Julia Paskin of LAist [link removed]. 

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