We also noted that "Congress still must act," given that a future president could undo the protections. 

DACA persists, but it has the feel of being slowly eroded. Virtually no new applications have been processed since October 2017 — with a very brief exception, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has granted only renewals since then. The number of DACA recipients has fallen gradually. 

Now the administration is detaining and deporting some recipients and has significantly slowed its renewal processing, heightening uncertainty for all recipients and leaving gaps in protection, as Lauren Villagran of The Marshall Project is the latest to report. 

"It’s death by a thousand cuts," said former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano, who issued the memo creating DACA. 

As our President and CEO, Jennie Murray, points out in the piece, Americans across the spectrum continue to support DACA recipients and other immigrants brought here as children. A Forum-Bullfinch Group survey a year ago this month offers one example. 

Read more about the current status of DACA in our explainer, and help us renew the push for the congressional action we still clearly need. 

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ENFORCEMENT UP — Immigration enforcement is way up in recent days, Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times reports. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has made arrests "at check-ins with immigration authorities, during traffic stops and on the street," he reports, with daily arrest numbers around 2,000 — about twice what they were earlier in 2026. Arrests have been more visible in Milwaukee, as a team at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Paul Kiefer of Wisconsin Watch reported early this week. In related news: 

MANDATORY DETENTION — A fourth appeals court has rejected the administration’s practice of mandatorily detaining millions of immigrants, reports Kyle Cheney of Politico. Two others have sided with the administration, pointing to the Supreme Court needing to weigh in. Many affected immigrants have challenged their detentions using habeas corpus petitions, flooding courts and the Department of Justice, Cheney notes. 

CONCERN — The pending lapse of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and Syrians is causing concern nationwide. "It's a major departure from our history of really providing a refuge to folks who are escaping persecution and unsafe conditions in their home country," Blake Hamilton, CEO of the International Institute of St. Louis, told Andrea Y. Henderson of St Louis Public Radio. Advocates in Ohio also are advising Haitians and concerned community members, reports Siddarth Sivaraman of the Ohio Capital Journal. And Susan Scott Peterson of WESA covers the impacts in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. 

BIPARTISAN BILL — House Agriculture Chair G.T. Thompson (R-Pennsylvania) has introduced legislation to address agriculture workforce shortages by easing the temporary hiring of immigrants, Rachel Shin of Politico reports. "With the border now secure, it is time to address these shortcomings and provide fair and legal pathways for all of agriculture to obtain workers when they are unable to find U.S. citizens willing to perform these noble but arduous tasks," Thompson wrote. Christina Herrick of The Packer has more on the bill and its bipartisan support.