Laravel 5.2 migration with reset password

I am trying to migrate some users from my legacy system to the new one that I am currently building. For that purpose, I have decided to reset the user's passwords and send them a link to update it.

//use ResetsPasswords;

foreach ($oldUsers as $oldUser) {

                    if (!in_array($oldUser->email, $this->duplicateUsersEmails)) {
                        $this->processingUserId = $oldUser->id;
                            $olduserAccounts = OldUsers_MyAccounts::where('user_id', $this->processingUserId)->first();

                            NewUser::create(
                                [
                                    'createdAt' => $oldUser->created,
                                    'updatedAt' => $oldUser->modified,
                                    'email' => $oldUser->email,
                                    'username' => $oldUser->username,
                                    'password' => Hash::make(time().$oldUser->email),
                                    'activated' => 0,
                                    'lastLogin' => $oldUser->lastlogin,
                                    'firstname' => $oldUser->forename,
                                    'lastName' => $oldUser->surname,
                                    'dob' => $oldUser->dob,
                                    'titleId' => 0,
                                    'balance' => ($olduserAccounts !== null) ? $olduserAccounts->currency_balance : 0,
                                    'creditBalance' => ($olduserAccounts !== null) ? $olduserAccounts->monies_balance : 0,
                                    'migrated' => 1,
                                ]
                            );
                        }
                         $request = request()->merge(array('email' => $oldUser->email));
                        $this->postEmail($request);
}

Thing is that most of the online resources are effectively around creating controllers, routes etc for this but wondering if there is a simpler way to achieve this. What I'd like to do, is to reset the password and fire off an email with a Password Reset link straightaway.

via Chebli Mohamed