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THE FORUM DAILY

People across the globe understand that immigrants make their countries
stronger, Charles Dunst writes for Time
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demonizing migrants and refugees as burdens, politicians must start
recognizing their benefits, too - or else economic consequences and
public backlash may ensue.  

In the United States, Heidi Zapata - who arrived undocumented as a
child after fleeing scarcity and violence in Nicaragua - has gone on
to care for countless Americans as an infectious disease physician
during the COVID-19 pandemic, as she writes in the San Francisco
Chronicle
<[link removed]>.
 

And Latino truck drivers continue to bring essential supplies into our
communities every day - while some are calling for a halt to
deliveries to Florida in the wake of the state's new hardline
immigration law, C.A. Bridges reports for the USA Today Network
<[link removed]>.
 

Meanwhile, where there are not enough immigrants, Americans stand to
suffer. In 2006, a pear farmer named Nick Ivicevich lamented how a
backdrop of thuds around him was the sound of pears rotting off
the trees in his California grove. "I waited my whole life for a crop
like this," Ivicevich told Bruce Maiman. Since then, the problem has
only worsened, Maiman now writes for HuffPost
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These are but a few examples of why our conversation needs to be about
more than the huddled masses gathering at the southern border, yearning
for a breath of life on the other side. Let's address the acute needs
at the border and in communities receiving migrants now - together
with a conversation about longer-term solutions in immigration. 

Welcome to Tuesday'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, Keylla Ortega,
Samuel Benson 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]>. 

**THE BORDER** - The Biden administration attributed the drop in
migrant crossings since the end of Title 42 to the "warnings to
asylum-seekers and displays of immigration enforcement," a team at CNN
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reports. The U.S. has deported nearly 2,400 people to Mexico over the
last three days, said DHS Assistant Secretary for Border and Immigration
Policy Blas Nuñez-Neto. Meanwhile, glitches continue to plague the CPB
One app to schedule asylum appointments, Hilary Beaumont writes for Al
Jazeera
<[link removed]>.
 

DIVERSE CAMP - Soumya Karlamangla of The New York Times
<[link removed]>
takes a look through the fence at the diverse migrant camp between
Tijuana and San Diego, including its "striking system of order." 

STEM WORKERS - More than five dozen national security experts are
urging Congress for more high-skilled immigrants to compete with China,
report Alison Snyder and Sophia Cai of Axios
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In a letter sent to the House China Select Committee, the experts ask
Congress to address "immigration bottlenecks" for international science
and engineering graduate students and workers. The signatories include
members of the Forum's Council on National Security and Immigration
<[link removed]>.  

**'WE ARE ALL HUMAN'** - Local farmworker Luis Ames provides food,
water and friendship to migrants held in a dirt lot at the
Arizona-Mexico border, reports Sarah Lapidus of the Arizona Republic
<[link removed]>.
Ames began doing so in 2021 after witnessing a crowd including pregnant
women, children and the elderly who had been kept without food and water
for hours. "Everything I do, I do for humanity," he said. "Because we
are all human. We all feel the same, and so we have to help." 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

 

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