The Forum Daily | Thursday, May 11, 2023
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THE FORUM DAILY

For more than three years, the United States has rapidly expelled many
migrants under the Title 42 public health order without giving them the
chance to seek protection. Today, that is finally set to end at 11:59
p.m. Eastern. 

Daily apprehensions at the border already have increased dramatically,
surpassing 10,000 on both Monday and Tuesday, Michael Roy Blake and Ted
Hesson report for Reuters
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Yet in El Paso, one of the cities with heightened arrivals, some
promising developments have emerged, Daniel Borunda and Lauren Villagran
of the El Paso Times report for the USA Today Network
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Earlier this week, Border Patrol agents successfully urged migrants to
turn themselves in proactively for processing instead of hiding from
authorities. Thousands of people had been sleeping in alleys and on
sidewalks Monday. But by Wednesday, that number had dropped
precipitously to around 135.  

In a new resource
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we address why asylum seekers can't just apply in countries along the
way, as the rule the Biden administration finalized yesterday would
require. Meanwhile, in Congress, a growing list of lawmakers
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- including a few Democrats - are supporting a bill that resembles
Title 42 (but is more extreme
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Al Weaver and Rafael Bernal report in The Hill
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And the House is expected to vote on a restrictive border security bill
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later today.

None of these are the solutions we need
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Challenges at our border are in part a result of deter-and-enforce-only
policies. More deterrence and enforcement will not keep people in
desperate situations from trying to reach the U.S., nor will it stop
smugglers and cartels from selling misinformation. And, as Jennie said
yesterday, "Americans still want
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and immigration solutions and to welcome people seeking refuge."  

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 Alexandra Villarreal, Sam Benson, Keylla Ortega 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]>. 

**MEXICO'S KEY ROLE** - Mexican law enforcement will be sent to
migration routes into Mexico, adding to existing efforts to reduce
illegal immigration into the U.S, reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS
News
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"Mexico's crackdown on migrants illustrates that country's increasingly
crucial role in the Biden administration's border management strategy,"
Montoya-Galvez writes. In the Christian Science Monitor
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Whitney Eulich writes that in the wake of Title 42, communities in
northern Mexico "have leaned into flexibility to face the changing
populations in their towns and cities and had to rethink the rights of
migrants - and their role towards and obligations to them." 

**MORE SUPPORT** - New York City is suspending key protections for
families as its promise of shelter for all clashes with heightened
demand from migrant newcomers, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Andy Newman
report for The New York Times
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Fabien Levy, a spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams, appealed for more support
from the federal and state governments. Similar reports are emerging
from other cities. It will take a village - and active collaboration
across the country - to respond to migrants and asylum seekers
humanely. 

**FLORIDA** - Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed the state's sweeping
immigration bill into law Wednesday, and Brandon Girod breaks it down in
the Pensacola News Journal
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"I've been getting a lot of calls from people asking me if they should
leave the state," said Jacksonville immigration lawyer Susan Pai. "The
undocumented community is very scared to even show up for work." 

**THE GIFT OF SOUND** - Zlata Kuzmina's family fled Odessa, Ukraine,
last year. In South Carolina they found welcome - and life-altering
surgery to restore 2-year-old Zlata's hearing, David Begnaud and T.
Sean Herbert write for CBS News
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Coincidentally, the great-grandparents of surgeon Teddy McRackan had
fled persecution in Odessa a century earlier. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan

 

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