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THE FORUM DAILY

The U.S. resettled 6,122 refugees in March
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number, per the latest refugee resettlement report. January 2017 was the
last time more than 6,000 refugees were resettled in a single month.  

We still have work to do: Halfway through the 2023 fiscal year, total
resettlement stands at 18,429, despite a cap of 125,000. If the March
pace continues, we'd reach about 55,000 admissions on the year - a
vast improvement, but less than half the cap. 

That said, the March totals are a positive sign that the work to rebuild
our refugee resettlement infrastructure is starting to bear fruit.  

We share some bittersweet news today as well: Dynahlee Padilla-Vasquez,
our Senior Communications Associate and Forum Daily drafter
extraordinaire, is in her last week at the Forum. We can't thank her
enough for her crucial work - and early mornings - to make the Daily
what it is. 

Dynahlee, we'll miss you greatly, and we wish you all the best at the
United Nations Foundation! 

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]
<mailto:[email protected]>. 

**IN MEMORIAM** - A network of advocates, including family members of
victims, are pushing for a memorial to be built where a fire at a
Mexican detention facility claimed 40 migrants' lives, reports Julian
Resendiz of Border Report
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"I don't want this to happen to any more migrants. Not because they
are migrants but because they are human beings," said Jesus, a
Venezuelan migrant who lost his brother Oscar Regalado Silva to the
tragedy.  

**PHILLY PREPARES** - Philadelphia is preparing to welcome more
immigrants and refugees to its communities ahead of the forthcoming
Title 42 lift, per Jeff Gammage and Ximena Conde of The Philadelphia
Inquirer
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Using the fall migrant bus transport situation
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as a learning lesson, Amy Eusebio, director of the city's Office of
Immigrant Affairs, said, "As a city we're definitely in preparation.
We feel ready." 

**SERIOUS EFFORTS** - With his border plan, President Biden "is trying
to flip the script on immigration," Foreign Policy
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columnist Edward Alden writes. The Uniting for Ukraine
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program and expanded processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and
Venezuelans <[link removed]> are among the initiatives
making an impact. "It has become cliché to say that the U.S. border is
broken," Alden writes. "But in the absence of congressional immigration
reform ... Biden's new plans are the most serious effort yet to fix
it." 

**FIRST SALVADORAN BISHOP** - Meet the nation's first
Salvadoran-born bishop, Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, via Héctor Alejandro
Arzate and Tyrone Turner's piece on WAMU
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Menjivar-Ayala came to the U.S. at age 20 in 1990, during El
Salvador's civil war. He says his being named bishop "is recognition
of the entire Hispanic community, which is growing and strong and
contributing here in the diocese." 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan

 

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