The Forum Daily | Friday, May 19, 2023
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THE FORUM DAILY

When it comes to border and immigration solutions, where do we go from
here?   

On World Radio
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Bonnie Pritchett gets at the need for solutions that go beyond
deterrence and enforcement. "We [also] need visas based on supply and
demand, we need a guest worker program that actually works," said Monica
Weisberg-Stewart of the Texas Border Coalition. "We need farm workers,
we need construction workers, we need individuals to be able to, to
actually come in here legitimately, we need a process that works."
(Don't miss our own Jennie Murray's comments in the piece along the
same lines.) 

Meanwhile, Addie Offereins of World magazine
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limbo in which migrants remain. "There's broad confusion. People just
aren't sure what they're supposed to be doing," said Sami DiPasquale
of Abara, which works along the border in El Paso, Texas, and Juárez,
Mexico. 

Meanwhile, Ashley Lopez of NPR
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visits the border city of Brownsville, Texas, and learns that people
there are focused on more than the migration conversation. And Hamed
Aleaziz and Patrick J. Mcdonnell of the Los Angeles Times
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speak with migrants and others to try to tease out why border crossings
have dropped in the week since Title 42 ended. 

Welcome to Friday'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, 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]>. 

**ECONOMIC SUSTENANCE** - As Michigan faces damaging population
decline, "immigrants are helping to sustain Michigan's economic
future," Steve Tobocman and Alaina Jackson write in a Bridge Michigan
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op-ed. "Scores of Midwest communities like ours have come to the
realization that immigration is ... a community issue that is
inextricably linked to our economic well-being and future," they write.
On a national scale, the Bloomberg
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editorial board weighs in on immigration as one solution to our nursing
shortage.  

**FEARS** - Hardline state immigration policies in Texas and Florida
are giving Hispanic residents of those states pause, reports Rafael
Bernal of The Hill
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Florida's farmers, as well as farmworkers, are concerned about the
state's forthcoming E-Verify requirement, Carmen Sesin and Edwin
Flores report for NBC News
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That same provision is causing angst in the construction industry, as
Zachary Phillips writes in Construction Dive
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parses E-Verify's problems in a Newsweek
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op-ed.  

**A TOWN SHAKEN** - The shootings last September of two migrants in
Sierra Blanca, Texas, looms over the town, Alfredo Corchado and Angela
Kocherga report in the Dallas Morning News
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Legislation pending in the Texas legislature "would make it a state
felony to enter the country from Mexico without documents and would
deputize private citizens to create a new border police force," they
note. Said resident Sara Villatoro, "We thought this was a tranquil
place. But everyone lives with a prayer on their lips." 

**HELPLINE** - A new, free 24/7 helpline is available for resettled
Afghans in the U.S., Jen Rice reports for the Houston Chronicle
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Refugees experiencing "sadness, anger, anxiety, fear, depression and
difficulty sleeping" can call and receive professional assistance in
Dari, Pashto, Uzbek and English. 

Meanwhile, this week in local welcome: 

* Volunteer Margaret Costantino, 75, has been dubbed "the mother of
Afghan people." She leads five paid staff and 15 volunteers at San
Antonio's Center for Refugee Services, which has supported more than
4,000 resettled Afghans since 2021. (Vincent T. Davis, Express-News
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* In late 2021, 64 women arrived at Arizona State University after
fleeing Afghanistan. "I am blessed to have all these amazing people
around me," said Maryam Alizada, the first of them to
graduate. (Samantha Talavera, ASU News
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* Just in time for Mothers Day, Maryam Azizpour and her daughters, who
fled Afghanistan in 2021, received notice that they'd been approved
for permanent asylum. (Scott Hewitt, The Columbian
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Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

**P.S.** We love to leave you hungry. Read the story of Peter Bian and
Linda Cao's dumpling success in Minnesota's Twin Cities, as reported
by Nicole Norfleet in the Star Tribune
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Can't help but wonder if they might ship nationwide someday. 

 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

 

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