The Forum Daily | Wednesday, July 29, 2026https://www.forumtogether.org

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) is calling the Trump administration’s plans to arrest and deport Haitians a mistake, Camilo Montoya-Galvez and Joe Walsh of CBS News [link removed] report. 

Thousands of Haitians live in Ohio, including many in Springfield, they note. DeWine said that the Haitian community has helped Springfield and that planned enforcement after the expiration of Haitians’ Temporary Protected Status [link removed] (TPS) would harm the city and the state. 

It’s not a first for DeWine. Anna Staver and Sabrina Eaton of cleveland.com [link removed], among others, reported on DeWine’s comments a month ago after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the end of TPS for Haitians and others to go forward. 

This week, Montoya-Galvez also spoke with people at risk [link removed], as did Linsey Davis of ABC News [link removed]. 

Businesses, meanwhile, are in turmoil as the clock winds down on work authorizations for people who’ve had TPS, Gisela Salomon and Matt Sedensky of the Associated Press [link removed] report. 

"[Long-term care] providers and the patients themselves are dealing with a ton of uncertainty for months and months," said Katie Smith Sloan, CEO of LeadingAge. "And so now it all feels like it’s about to come to a head." 

For more on the impacts for Haitians and their communities, read Jordan Mead in Florida’s Spectrum News 13 [link removed] and Eden Turner in the Nashville Banner [link removed]. 

Looking for some clear definitions on a confusing issue? Check out our new Glossary of Key Immigration Terms [link removed]. And welcome to Tuesday’s edition of The Forum Daily. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to [email protected] mailto:[email protected]. 

**FROM ASSISTER TO TIPSTER** — Since last year, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) has shared information about nearly half a million migrant children, their sponsors and other household members with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), reports Kristina Cooke of Reuters [link removed]. More than 12,000 arrests have followed the tips, per internal government data. "They are weaponizing a child welfare program for the purposes of more deportations," said Jen Smyers, a former deputy director of ORR. 

**DACA DELAYS** — Delays continue in the processing of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) renewal applications, causing uncertainty for businesses and communities, Lexi Salazar, Ken Molestina and Michael Lozano of CBS Texas [link removed] report. Nearly 150 business, faith and community leaders signed a recent letter urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to quicken its review of applications, they report. 

**AIRPORTS** — Immigration enforcement appears to be increasing at airports, Alexandra Skores and Priscilla Alvarez of CNN [link removed] report. The airport actions come as ICE employs a variety of tactics to increase arrests, they report, and some arrestees are in the United States legally as they pursue immigration paths forward. "If the new expectation is that if you have a pending application, you can’t travel … that would be very, very new," said Jeff Joseph, president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. 

Elsewhere in the impacts of the government’s approach to immigration: 

* A 16-year U.S. resident originally from Ukraine was violently arrested at San Francisco International Airport last week. (Aldo Toledo and St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle [link removed]) 

* A federal judge told DHS to continue trying to return a man to the United States because immigration officials may have violated his constitutional rights before deporting him to Honduras (Billal Rahman, Newsweek [link removed]) 

* New international student enrollments dropped 20% last year in Massachusetts high schools. (James Vaznis, Boston Globe [link removed]) 

**WELCOME** — Jason Yon of Mitchell Road Presbyterian Church in Greenville, South Carolina, writes in The Post and Courier [link removed] of the welcome he received when trying to help a resettled Afghan family. "Loving the stranger does not mean we eliminate immigration laws, but it should shape the kind of policies Christians support and how we show up for our neighbors," Yon writes. Meanwhile, Meir Rinde of WHYY [link removed] takes readers along to two Northeast Philadelphia neighborhoods vibrant with immigrants from Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan

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