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THE FORUM DAILY

What a rough weekend news cycle. Our hearts go out to the victims of the
mall shooting and killing of migrants outside a shelter, both in Texas,
as well as to their families.  

In Brownsville yesterday, eight people were killed and many others
injured after a driver ran over a crowd of mostly Venezuelans across
from a shelter housing migrants, report Valerie Gonzalez and Michael
Gonzalez of the Associated Press
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Whether the collision was an accident or intentional remains unclear, as
the suspect is refusing to cooperate, authorities said Sunday.  

Diana Eva Maldonado of ValleyCentral.com
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spoke with Luis Herrera, a survivor, who said that he had been on his
way to the airport when "a woman in a car passed by and advised us to
separate and moments later the killer was coming in the car gesturing
and insulting us." 

This harrowing incident came just one day after a shooter who reportedly
harbored white supremacist, extremist sympathies killed eight people at
an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, as reported by a CNN.com
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team, and barely a week after five Honduran immigrants were fatally shot
outside of Houston, as Juan A. Lozano of the Associated Press
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updates. 

Meanwhile, in a column for the Los Angeles Times
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Jean Guerrero draws a line between demonizing rhetoric against people
migrating and draconian policies that hurt them. It's a poignant
reminder that words matter - and can fuel hate and harm. Find our
related resources here.
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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 Alexandra Villarreal, Clara Villatoro and Becka Wall. If
you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me
at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. 

ASYLUM IN THE BALANCE - Even as the Title 42 public health order is
set to expire later this week, "asylum seekers' experiences aren't
likely to change anytime soon" with the Biden administration rolling out
new hardline policies meant to deter migration at the U.S.-Mexico
border, Kate Morrissey of the The San Diego Union-Tribune
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and Andrea Castillo of the Los Angeles Times
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report. Meanwhile, for The Guardian
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our policy expert (and current Daily contributor) Alexandra Villarreal
writes about the solutions we need as the right to seek asylum is
faltering: "Polls show that Americans continue to overwhelmingly
support
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U.S. as a land of refuge and welcome. Contrary to the impression left by
partisan squabbles, there are solutions." 

'BAND-AID SOLUTION' - "What we need is our system fixed, not this
Band-Aid solution," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said
Sunday on Face the Nation, per Caitlin Yilek of CBS. He was referring to
last week's Senate proposal that could allow quick deportations as
Title 42 ends.  

ICE FLIGHTS CANCELED - Flights to return mainly women and child
migrants from the U.S. to Colombia were temporarily canceled last week
by Colombian migration authorities, reports Reuters
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"There are recurring complaints about the poor conditions in detention
centers and mistreatment during flights, which represented a determining
factor in the decisions adopted in the last few hours," said Fernando
García, head of Colombia's migration agency.  

JOB SPONSORSHIP - A new program based on Uniting for Ukraine is
starting to welcome Ukrainian refugees with jobs waiting for them,
reports Steph Solis of Axios Boston
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A quick job placement means one fewer obstacle for refugees when they
arrive in the U.S., "and one less job vacancy as the nation grapples
with a persistent labor shortage," Solis writes. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan

 

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