Elements of this story resonate today — whether you’re Jewish or not. Our friends at HIAS have great resources connecting the Jewish people’s flight from persecution with the more than 100 million people who have been forcibly displaced around the globe today.  

And in the Gotham Gazette, American Jewish World Service global ambassador Ruth Messinger writes powerfully on this theme: "For me, the Passover story is a story about human rights, about the intrinsic right of every person to flee harm at the hands of an oppressor — and about the fundamental responsibility each of us has to see those from another land ... as human beings worthy of our concern, compassion, respect, and love."  

Chag Sameach to those celebrating, and may all of us move from bondage — literal or figurative — toward freedom. 

Welcome to Wednesday’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]. 

PROTESTS — Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Canadian Public Safety Minister's office Tuesday in Toronto, reports Molly Cone of Reuters. They called for the end of an asylum treaty between Canada and the U.S. after eight people drowned as they tried to cross the nations’ border in search of asylum and refuge.  

INVESTIGATION DEVELOPMENTS — Three Mexican immigration officials, a private security guard and a Venezuelan migrant will be held as part of the investigation following the tragic fire that killed 40 migrants in a Ciudad Juárez detention center, per the Associated Press. 

OPPORTUNITY TO FLOURISH — Florida’s 10-year-old law that allows undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at state colleges and universities has been a boon to the state, writes Sam Scott, interim president of the American Business Immigration Coalition, in a Sarasota Herald-Tribune op-ed. "Treating the children of immigrants just like our own children — and keeping higher education within their reach — is the right thing to do both morally and economically," he writes. 

NATIVE TONGUES — The Los Angeles Community College District is offering tuition-free instruction languages other than English for vocational classes or courses that help prepare immigrants for their GED, reports a team at the Los Angeles Times. "We’re beginning the process in community colleges of redefining the relationship between language and higher education," said Gabriel Buelna, a member of the district’s board of trustees. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan