The Forum Daily | Thursday July 20, 2023
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With Florida facing a severe labor shortage in its construction
industry, more lenient immigration policy could be part of
the solution, reports Clayton Park of The Daytona Beach News-Journal
<[link removed]>. 

But Florida's recent anti-immigration law poses further challenges, with
many construction workers leaving the state. "We are in a situation
where if we don't have more immigrants to take jobs, we won't be able to
grow," said Ron Hetrick, a senior economist with Lightcast. 

And in the Chicago Sun-Times
<[link removed]>,
Scott Grams, executive director of the Illinois Landscape Contractors
Association, writes that the Illinois landscaping industry is also in
need of more immigrant workers. 

"Expanding the temporary work permits during the labor shortage crisis
we have been facing for years would not only allow my industry and
others to be able to plan for long-term growth, it also would lessen the
underground economy and improve wages and benefits for all workers,"
Grams notes. 

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 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]>. 

SHELTERS BILL - A bill barring the use of public K-12 schools as
shelters for migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. was passed by the U.S.
House on Wednesday night, reports Ariana Figueroa of the States
Newsroom
<[link removed]>.
The bill is a Republican initiative and stems from New York City
officials' decision to convert several school gyms to shelter
migrants. The bill is likely to die in the Senate; if it doesn't,
President Joe Biden vowed he would veto the bill in a statement
<[link removed]>
Wednesday.  

OVERWHELMING RESPONSE - Canada's new program to attract H-1B visa
holders received an overwhelming response, reaching its
10,000-application limit in less than 48 hours, Stuart Anderson writes
in Forbes
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The high number of applicants is "likely a warning sign to U.S.
policymakers that many highly sought foreign-born scientists and
engineers ... are dissatisfied with the U.S. immigration system and
seeking other options," Anderson writes. Canada may reopen the program
if not all applicants are approved, and its fate for 2024 will depend on
the success and feedback from the current crop of applicants. 

PREVENTABLE - A new report from an independent federal court monitor
states that the death of 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez under
U.S. custody in May could have been prevented and rings alarms on the
government's system of caring for migrants, reports Camilo
Montoya-Galvez of CBS News
<[link removed]>.
Report author Paul Wise offered several suggestions to improve the
system, including for "Border Patrol to more closely monitor cases of
at-risk migrants, streamline hospital transfer requests, and improve
communication among medical staff," Montoya-Galvez notes. 

'CONSIDER ANOTHER CITY' - New York City plans to distribute flyers
telling migrants arriving from the U.S.-Mexico border to "consider
another city" in an attempt to reduce the strain of housing them, writes
Ted Hesson for Reuters
<[link removed]>.
Along with highlighting the high cost of living migrants will face, the
city plans to limit shelter stays for adult asylum seekers to 60 days.
Mayor Eric Adams said the flyers would seek to "combat misinformation"
and that the city would help migrants find other housing.  

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

P.S. Coming to bus shelters across the U.S. and Mexico is artist and
DACA recipient Felipe Baeza's "Unruly Forms" art series, featuring
mixed-media paintings exploring the displacement of migrants and
Mesoamerican antiquities, Jori Finkel writes in The New York Times
<[link removed]>. 

 

 

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