Yesterday, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution that would block the Biden administration from easing Trump-era restrictions that target low-income, would-be immigrants. 

The Senate voted 50-47 to halt the Biden administration’s rule, which generally restores the U.S. immigration system's decades-long precedent around which noncitizens constitute a "public charge," Nicky Robertson and Ted Barrett report for CNN.  

The Trump administration’s criteria could make it much harder for people of lesser means to receive visas and stay in the U.S. legally, Hamutal Bernstein and Archana Pyati at the Urban Institute explain. (In announcing the policy in 2019, then acting director of USCIS Ken Cuccinelli said, "Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet." Here’s what we said then.) 

The House would need to vote on the new resolution before it would reach President Joe Biden — who has already said to expect a veto. 

Rather than curtail eligibility around existing legal immigration paths, Democrats and Republicans must work together to come up with meaningful reforms that uphold human dignity and restore fairness to our immigration system.  

A bipartisan bill introduced yesterday could be a good place to start. The proposed legislation would support certain young immigrants who have been in the U.S. legally via their parents’ visas but "age out" when they turn 21 and don’t have a clear way to stay in the country they call home, Reuben Jones reports for Spectrum News.  

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, 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]. 

CHILD DIES IN CUSTODY — An 8-year-old girl died in Border Patrol custody on Wednesday after suffering a medical emergency, per a U.S. Customs and Border Protection statement. Her family was being processed at a station in Harlingen, Texas, when the tragedy occurred. It’s the first known death of a migrant child in Border Patrol custody since the Trump administration, reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS News.  

BORDER SOLUTIONS — The bigger humanitarian crisis at the border is on the Mexican side, León Krauze writes in an op-ed for  The Washington Post. Krauze calls on the Mexican and U.S. governments to provide aid and safe conditions to migrants. "Deterrence cannot be synonymous with cruelty," he writes. Separately, Josh T. Smith calls on Congress "to build new bridges, not just walls" in an op-ed for the Washington Examiner. "[W]e need to see legal options as key pieces of border control rather than as antithetical to border security," Smith writes. 

WORK APPROVAL — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has called for expedited work approval for migrants as a "path out of the shadows," reports Nick Reisman of Spectrum News. That’s one theme of our statement yesterday — together with compassion from local leaders and more federal resources as localities address migrant arrivals. 

TECHNOLOGY AND MIGRATION — Social media and other apps are sources of information — and misinformation — for people journeying to the U.S., reports Melissa Gerber of the Los Angeles Times. Migrants are relying on their phones for tips and routes for the journey, translation tools, and messaging options to keep in touch with their families, Gerber notes. But Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a professor at George Mason University, notes that smugglers are using the same tools too. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan