Absent a government appeal, the decision will take effect in a week. 

"Should it take effect, this decision would mean greater health and safety risks for detained migrants and greater pressure on our agents at the border," Jennie said in our press statement. "Congress’ failure to act on border and immigration reforms is making it harder and harder for better policies to take hold." 

Also yesterday — busy news day — we published new polling. Three takeaways to start: Strong majorities support offering refuge to people who have fled torture and persecution. Similar percentages value welcoming newcomers to our communities. And Americans still (overwhelmingly) want border and immigration reforms. (Click through to see in which group support exceeds opposition by 70 percentage points.)  

Welcome to Thursday’s edition of The Forum Daily. I’m Dan Gordon, the Forum’s strategic communications VP, and the great Forum Daily team also includes Dynahlee Padilla-Vasquez, Clara Villatoro and Katie Lutz. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected]. 

LEGAL PATHWAYS — Senior living providers and advocates could urge lawmakers to expand existing immigration pathways to help address workforce shortages, Kimberly Bonvissuto reports in McKnight’s Senior Living. Carl Risch, an attorney and former assistant secretary of state for consular affairs, said Monday that partnerships could help smooth the way for recent arrivals who have work authorization, and more opportunities for sponsorship also could help. Separately, Arielle Dreher of Axios has more on last month’s National Bureau of Economic Research findings that immigration solutions would help address worker shortages in nursing-home care.  

PROTECT OUR ALLIES — On Wednesday, veterans of the war in Afghanistan pleaded with Congress to account for failures of the U.S. government’s withdrawal, evacuate allies still stuck in Afghanistan and offer permanence to those who have already resettled here, reports Dan Lamothe of The Washington Post. The Afghan Adjustment Act would help. Meanwhile, Mexican asylum authorities are noticing more Afghans seeking asylum there or trying to reach the U.S., Rosa Flores reports for CNN.   

CHILDREN’S PROTECTIONS — Utah Sen. Mike Lee and other Republicans reintroduced a bill Wednesday that would limit protections for migrants, including children, in detention, report Brigham Tomco and Suzanne Bates of the Deseret News. As Jennie said, "This legislation would allow immigration authorities to hold migrant families with children in detention for longer than 20 days, despite a scientific consensus that detaining children can be harmful to their well-being."   

MIGRATION STORIES — In the past decade, more than 7 million people have left Venezuela "amid a political, economic and humanitarian crisis that has lasted the entirety of President Nicolás Maduro’s government," reports Regina Garcia Cano in a powerful feature for the Associated Press. "As people continue to migrate, mostly to elsewhere in Latin America, there’s an increasing divide between ‘los que se quedaron’ and ‘los que se fueron,’ those who stayed and those who left," Cano writes. Don't miss the amazing photos.

Thanks for reading, 

Dan