The Forum Daily | Wednesday June 7, 2023
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THE FORUM DAILY

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said yesterday that the number
of daily encounters along the US-Mexico border has remained low nearly
a month after the end of Title 42, reports Priscilla Alvarez of CNN
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Unlawful entries between ports of entry along the Southwest Border have
decreased by more than 70%. And between May 12 and June 2, DHS
repatriated over 38,400 noncitizens to more than 80 countries under
Title 8, per a DHS statement
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But the U.S. policies have affected Mexico, where the government and
nonprofits are struggling to keep up with asylum-seekers arriving,
reports James Frederick of NPR
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"The United States is transferring responsibility for people to Mexico.
But the Mexican government has only received people without necessarily
creating the conditions that allow them to stay," says Melissa Vértiz
of the Migration Policy Working Group <[link removed]> in Mexico. We
addressed Mexico's challenges last month
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and in March
<[link removed]>. 

Separate but on the topic of migration, today we're co-hosting a
webinar to unveil new research on migration narratives in northern
Central America. Find details and register here
<[link removed]>. 

Welcome to Wednesday'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,
Ashling Lee 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]>. 

RESETTLEMENT UP - Newly released State Department data
<[link removed]> shows the U.S.
resettled 6,975 refugees in May, the highest number since fiscal year
2017. We've resettled more than 6,000 refugees each month since March,
a positive trend. Stay tuned for more on refugee resettlement as World
Refugee Day on June 20 approaches.  

DESANTIS RESPONSIBLE - The administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
(R) confirmed that it was behind the flying of migrants from El Paso to
Sacramento in recent days, report Nicholas Nehamas and Shawn Hubler of
The New York Times
<[link removed]>.
Whether migrants were deceived before consenting remains a big question.
"[M]igrants are human beings, not cargo to be shipped around without
regard for their humanity," the Los Angeles Times
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editorial board wrote Monday.  

A PLEA - Meanwhile, some Florida Republicans are asking migrants to
stay in the state despite a harsh new immigration law, reports David
Edwards of Raw Story
<[link removed]>. "This bill is
100% supposed to scare you," Rep. Rick Roth (R) said in a meeting with
migrants Monday. "I'm a farmer, and the farmers are mad as hell. We are
losing employees." Florida is already in the "more severe" labor
shortage category, and the economy would suffer if more immigrants
leave, reports Cristian Benavides of CBS News Miami
<[link removed]>.
 

STRAIN - Texas, among the leaders in the number of resettled Afghans
it has received, is experiencing the effects of limitations in the
resettlement system, reports Caroline Covington of The Texas Tribune
<[link removed]>.
The recent collapse of Texas's largest resettlement agency, Refugee
Services of Texas, has increased the strain as thousands of Afghans
continue to live in uncertainty. To learn more about the need for
long-term solutions for Afghan evacuees, join the Forum's Facebook
Live <[link removed]>
tomorrow at 1 p.m. ET. 

**NURSING SHORTAGE** - In an op-ed for Time Magazine
<[link removed]>,
former secretaries of Health and Human Services Alex M. Azar (R) and
Kathleen Sebelius (D) urge Congress to change immigration policies to
tackle the U.S. nursing shortage. "Policymakers need to treat this
crisis with the urgency it deserves - if we can't heal our ailing
health care system, we can't heal our patients who need care most,"
they write. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

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