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THE FORUM DAILY

At least 930 asylum seekers have come to Portland, Maine, in search of
immigrant communities, aid and employment, report Jon Kamp and Alicia A.
Caldwell of The Wall Street Journal
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Maine is mostly rural and aging, and it needs newcomers to help fill
labor gaps, Portland Mayor Kate Snyder notes. The city has set a
decades-long precedent to welcome asylum seekers and resettle refugees,
she added. 

But with Portland's housing shortage, rising prices and lack of space,
"[t]he pressure right now on emergency shelter is so incredible," she
said. 

Nebraska and Iowa also have experienced an increase in newcomers.
Advocates and lawyers cite available jobs and a lower cost of living as
part of the reason. 

Meanwhile, border towns in Mexico continue to face record migration, in
part because the U.S. has externalized its border policies, Joel Rose of
NPR
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reports. And as CBS News
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reports, migrants are still struggling to get asylum appointments via
the CBP One app
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Elsewhere on NPR
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Franco Ordoñez reports on several other border-management challenges
for the Biden administration, especially with the forthcoming lift of
Title 42 in May. And in theLos Angeles Times
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Leila Miller breaks down which countries are the origin points for
migrants to the U.S., in addition to the push and pull factors behind
migrants' decisions to flee. 

Welcome to Tuesday'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]>. 

**REASONS FOR GROWTH** - Those needs Mayor Snyder mentioned are not
just in Portland: An increase in immigration can help address population
challenges throughout the U.S., Matthew Yglesias writes in an analysis
for Bloomberg
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"[L]egal immigration remains a fast-acting and relatively
straightforward option that deserves a consideration from Congress,
separate from any controversies about asylum-seekers," he writes.
"Educated, skilled workers in particular would help stabilize
communities in decline while bolstering the economy as a whole." 

**NO ANSWER** - Migrants desperately cried for help in last week's
tragic fire that killed 40 migrants at a detention facility in Mexico,
but no one came, reports Lizbeth Diaz of Reuters
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"When I saw everything begin to fill with smoke, I worried a lot about
my family," recalled Eduard Caraballo, a Venezuelan migrant and
survivor. "My God, don't let me die." In the aftermath, we're
praying for human dignity to prevail going forward.  

**IMMIGRATION REFORMS STALLED** - A decade has passed without
significant action since Republicans and Democrats in the Senate worked
together on comprehensive immigration reform, report Will Weissert and
Adriana Gomez Licon of the Associated Press
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"We need a total reset," said Domingo Garcia, president of the League of
United Latin American Citizens. "I think that people on the far left are
just as wrong as those who believe they should close the border and let
no one in." Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum recently
looked back at the 2013 bill and the economic impacts
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of comprehensive reforms. 

**IN THEIR SHOES** - Dreamers have a lot to offer our communities -
and Christians must "reflect on how uncertainty limits [Dreamers']
lives," writes Rich Nathan, the founding pastor of Vineyard Columbus
Church, in an op-ed for the Ohio Capital Journal
<[link removed]>.
"I urge Ohio senators to stand up for Dreamers and support bipartisan
initiatives to offer them a legal path to citizenship." 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

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