The Forum Daily | Friday July 14, 2023
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A bus from Brownsville, Texas, arrived in Los Angeles Thursday carrying
30 migrants. It was the third bus sent to California by Texas Gov. Greg
Abbott (R), report Jack Herrera, Nathan Solis, Raul Roa and Irfan Khan
for the Los Angeles Times
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Volunteers with the LA Welcomes Collective, a network of nonprofit,
faith and immigration groups, greeted the bus. "We are committed to
continuing to welcome all people with dignity, and if that means
somebody putting them on a bus to their final destination, where they
have family and friends, we will continue to support and welcome them,"
said Guerline Jozef, executive director of the Haitian Bridge
Alliance. 

Jozef's group has worked in Texas to ensure that migrants are
consenting to their transport and have enough food and water for the
trips, and in California to make sure city officials and local
organizations are prepared for migrants to arrive. 

Texas has sent 118 migrants to California since last month - and
22,000 to large cities elsewhere, including New York and Chicago.  

Writing in The Dallas Morning News
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on Wednesday, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council
had an interesting suggestion: creating a federal office to help
migrants and the communities that receive them. 

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 Karime Puga, Clara Villatoro, Christian Blair and Ashling
Lee. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send
it to me at [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>. 

WORKFORCE - New York City needs workers. Thousands of asylum seekers
have arrived in the past several months and could fill those jobs, but
work permits are still a hurdle, report Daniela Sirtori-Cortina and
Augusta Saraiva of Bloomberg
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Different business sectors have supported a petition to the federal
government to expedite work permits for asylum seekers to tackle labor
shortages. And economists say cities will benefit from migrants'
arrival, Christopher Maag and Raúl Vilchis of The New York Times
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report.  

LETHAL COMBINATION - Experts say recent triple-digit temperatures
alone are not why migrants have died trying to reach the U.S. -
deterrence policies and physical infrastructure are also to blame, Jose
Ignacio Castaneda Perez reports in The Arizona Republic
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Walls and other barriers lead to added physical exertion
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researchers report. "That's just a recipe for death. It's just going to
make the journey that much more difficult," said Brad Jones, professor
at the University of California and volunteer with Arizona nonprofit
Humane Borders. 

**RACIAL BIAS** CONCERNS - Advocates say Black immigrants in Ohio's
immigration court system, particularly from Mauritania, face racial
bias, reports Danae King of The Columbus Dispatch
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Many immigration judges have been denying their asylum claims, despite
evidence of torture scars and solid, legitimate cases, according to
advocates. Judges are being criticized for questioning the credibility
of Black asylum seekers and displaying a lack of understanding of trauma
and cultural differences. 

'BRAVE AND SMART' - Our hearts go out to the family of Ahmad Yar,
who was fatally shot in Washington, D.C., last week. Ahmad was an Afghan
interpreter for U.S. Special Forces and was starting to build a new life
in the U.S. Friends and colleagues described Yar as "brave and smart and
always happy," writes Susan Svrluga of The Washington Post
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This week in local welcome: 

* In Oklahoma, Pathways, a program launched by Epic Charter School, is
assisting young resettled Afghans in obtaining their high school
diplomas. (Nuria Martinez-Keel, The Oklahoman
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* In Roanoke, Virginia, a former Afghan pilot has found solace in the
welcoming support in his community while he works on bringing his family
to the U.S. (Heather Rousseau, The Roanoke Times
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* In Massachusetts, Dabeeri Emad is working as a case specialist for a
resettlement agency and helping other resettled Afghans. (Matthew
Ferreira, South Coast Today
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Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

 

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