The Forum Daily | Thursday, September 24, 2026https://www.forumtogether.org

Immigration enforcement is affecting hundreds of thousands of children, as well as faith-based ministries, Kathleen Murphy of EWTN News [link removed] reports. 

More than 145,000 U.S.-citizen children have had a parent booked into immigration detention since January 2025, Jenny Cachaya of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network said during a webinar yesterday.  

"What we saw was children who were triply hit by the loss of a family member, the loss of financial security, and the precarity and the loss of their daily routine," said Ashley Feasley of The Catholic University of America’s Immigration Law and Policy Initiative. 

And in a preliminary report from Catholic academic entities, 39 Lutheran, Jewish or Catholic organizations reported immigration enforcement incidents at courthouses, schools and near churches, out of 49 surveyed. 

Lawmakers from Southern California are advocating for an end to enforcement actions near schools, reports City News Service [link removed]. Their letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin follows two enforcement actions near San Diego schools in recent weeks. 

Elsewhere, Ohio immigration attorney Farhad Sethna writes in the Akron Beacon-Journal [link removed] that the administration has put at risk protections for children who have "either only one parent who[m] they cannot be safely reunited with, or no parents at all." 

Sethna focuses on a decision that children with pending Special Immigrant Juvenile status cannot pause their deportation cases. 

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**COMMUNITY SAFETY** — Involving local police in immigration enforcement puts community safety at risk, the Sentinel Colorado [link removed] editorial board writes. "Local police depend on victims and witnesses to report crimes," it writes. "If a substantial portion of a community becomes reluctant to seek police assistance because of immigration concerns, the effects could reach victims, witnesses, officers and everyone who lives or works alongside them." Our Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force [link removed] would agree.  

**INHUMANE CONDITIONS** — Immigrants in a Florida detention facility are reporting sleeping in handcuffs and chains, bathrooms overflowing with waste, the presence of black mold, and no access to basic hygienic supplies, reports Syra Ortiz Blanes of the Miami Herald [link removed]. A new whistleblower report includes the allegations. Migrants detained in a Colorado jail continue to report poor treatment as well, Owen Swallow writes in the Sentinel [link removed]. The reports come as Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to employ "mobile detention facilities," per Jasmine Garsd of NPR [link removed]. 

**IN SERVICE OF DEPORTATIONS** — The federal government is sending many migrants to detention facilities in Louisiana, where a scarcity of lawyers makes challenging detentions especially difficult, report Megan Crepeau, Seamus Hughes, and Alexia Fernández Campbell of Bloomberg Law [link removed]. Habeas corpus petitions without an attorney are very rarely successful, they note. Separately but related, the government has removed 440,000 asylum seekers since President Trump returned to office, Ted Hesson of The Washington Post [link removed] reports. The number exceeds the combined total from the previous eight years. 

**KANSAS **— Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions are affecting multiple Kansas communities, reports Calen Moore of High Plains Public Radio [link removed]. In Liberal, a meatpacking plant is delaying shifts for employees, and schools are warning families about detentions. Dodge City police reported a lack of information from, let alone coordination with, federal personnel, Ryan Newton, Aniyah Robinson and Joseph McCarty of KSN [link removed] report. In Leavenworth, a former maximum-security prison is now an immigration detention center — over the community’s objections, reports Nathalie Levey of The Intercept [link removed]. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

P.S. Hispanic Heritage Month is offering business owners in East Charlotte, North Carolina, an opportunity to celebrate as they bounce back from immigration enforcement actions nearly a year ago, Alexandra Rios-Malviya of WCNC [link removed] reports.

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