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THE FORUM DAILY

Immigrants are essential to population growth in the U.S., and larger
counties are among those reaping the benefits, a team at The New York
Times
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reports. 

Immigration nearly tripled in the U.S.'s 20 most populous counties
from 2021 to 2022, returning to pre-pandemic levels nationally,
according to the latest Census Bureau data
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San Diego, Miami-Dade County and King County in Washington (home to
Seattle) are large counties in which immigration was the reason the
population increased. In other large counties, immigration helped stem
declines. 

Another key finding: Deaths outnumbered births in 75% of U.S. counties
last year. In the words of University of New Hampshire demographer
Kenneth Johnson, "If places are going to grow, it's immigration that
helps."  

The Forum has written before
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why immigration is so important as America's population grows older on
average and fertility rates remain generally low. 

Welcome to Monday'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]
<mailto:[email protected]>.  

**RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REDUX** - Charles R. Davis of Insider
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has more on Florida evangelical pastors' concerns regarding state
legislation supported by Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R). "As followers of
Christ, we are living out our faith most clearly when we answer the call
to care for those in need: widows, orphans, immigrants and the poor,"
Jody Ray, a pastor at Chets Creek Church in Jacksonville. "Any law that
would hinder our ability to carry out our calling to care for anyone in
need would be a violation of our religious freedom." For more, read WLRN
editor Tim Padgett's op-ed for the Miami Herald
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**NORTHERN BORDER DEATHS** - The bodies of eight migrants, including a
child, were found in the St. Lawrence River along the U.S.-Canada
border on Thursday, reports Dan Bilefsky of The New York Times
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The migrants were Romanian and Indian nationals, authorities say. "This
shows that people are desperate and that Canada and the United States
need to do more to review the immigration processes in place," said
Abram Benedict, the Grand Chief for the Indigenous territory in Quebec
where the tragedy occurred. 

**VIRTUAL WALL, REAL SURVEILLANCE** - A new map
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by the Electronic Frontier Foundation highlights the location of
hundreds of surveillance towers along the southern border, Hilary
Beaumont of The Guardian
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reports. CBP will focus most of its surveillance tower expansion on the
border near the El Paso port of entry, per the EFF. Fernando García,
executive director of the Border Network for Human Rights, said funds
should be allocated for additional welcome centers and resources for
processing asylum claims rather than more border surveillance. 

**UKRAINIANS** - More than 280,000 Ukrainians have fled their war-torn
country and entered the U.S. via the Uniting for Ukraine
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program, with many private sponsorships working well. But some
Ukrainians have become homeless after sponsors disappeared or otherwise
didn't work out, Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura reports in The New York
Times
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Separately, as Women's History Month concluded, our president and CEO,
Jennie, reflected
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on key lessons she learned last year while serving displaced Ukrainian
women.

Thanks for reading,

Dan

 

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