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THE FORUM DAILY

The U.S., Panama and Colombia are launching a 60-day campaign to stem
the flow of migration through the Darién Gap, Kathia Martínez
reports for the Associated Press
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The announcement comes ahead of an anticipated increase in migrants at
the U.S. border once Title 42 restrictions are lifted May 11, and with
the U.S. now "looking at the Darien Gap as the natural choke point to
stop extracontinental migration." Nearly 90,000 migrants have traveled
through the jungle in 2023 alone. 

In a joint statement
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three countries said they're planning the campaign "(r)ecognizing our
shared interest and responsibility to prevent the risk to human life,
disrupt transnational criminal organizations, and preserve the vital
rainforest." 

The statement points to strategies such as "new lawful and flexible
pathways" as alternative ways to migrate, as well as investing in job
creation and poverty reduction in Colombian and Panamanian border
communities.  

As we've said before
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addressing root causes of migration is vital to any sustainable
solutions at the border. Working with local communities to address "push
factors" - as well as creating controlled, legal migration options and
reforming our current asylum system - will do far more to stem
irregular migration than bans or walls.  

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 Clara Villatoro, Joanna Taylor 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]>.    

IMMIGRATION AND INFLATION - After a sharp, pandemic-driven drop in the
number of immigrants coming to the U.S., immigration rates are slowly
starting to recover, Savannah Maher reports for Marketplace
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The years-long decline was a major factor in continuing severe labor
shortages across industries, particularly in service, hospitality and
childcare. "A labor market where jobs can be filled more easily because
of the inflow of immigrants will generate less inflationary pressures
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said Giovanni Peri of the University of California Davis.  

CITIZEN CHILDREN SEPARATED - As many as 1,000 U.S. citizen children
were separated from their immigrant parents at the border under the
Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy in 2018, The New York
Times
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Miriam Jordan writes. "We don't even know where these parents are
today, and whether or not they know where their children are," said
Paige Chan of Together and Free, a nonprofit that has been working with
the federal task force trying to locate separated families. "The U.S.
government is only beginning to account for the number of U.S. citizens
put through this unimaginable trauma." 

SAVE GIRLS ACT - Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) introduced the
Stopping the Abuse, Victimization and Exploitation of Girls (SAVE Girls)
Act on Tuesday, with bipartisan support. Per Liz Brown-Kaiser and Julie
Tsirkin at NBC News
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the bill would authorize $50 million to combat the trafficking of young
women and girls across the U.S., particularly those who were smuggled
across the U.S.-Mexico border.  

'RECOGNIZING THE STRANGER' -  About 4,000 people have
participated in a Catholic effort called Recognizing the Stranger "that
aims to identify, train and mentor immigrant leaders and to nurture
relationships between immigrant and nonimmigrant communities," per Katie
Collins Scott of the National Catholic Reporter
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"I believe this is exactly what it means for us to be a eucharistic
community, going out to the peripheries, seeing the ones who are
struggling, moving closer to them, listening to them, accompanying
them," said Fr. Tim Luschen of the Oklahoma City Archdiocese.  

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

 

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