The Forum Daily | Monday August 14, 2023
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The Biden administration is seeking funds for a new temporary housing
program for migrant families, reports Stef W. Kight of Axios
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The money for new facilities is part of a $40 billion emergency funding
request to Congress, which includes nearly $2.7 billion for the
Department of Homeland Security's border efforts. The new temporary
housing would allow migrant family members to move around freely during
the day, but it would be mandatory to check in and stay the night in the
facilities, Kight notes.  

Separately, Agence France Presse
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reports that the families of 40 migrants killed in a detention center
fire in Ciudad Juarez back in March will receive more than $8 million
each, according to the Mexican government. The National Institute of
Migration had asked the Ministry of Finance to provide a "special budget
item for the reparation of the damage."  

The tragic fire at a federally operated Mexican detention center was an
especially stark example of the need for the U.S. to improve border and
immigration processes. Writing in El Paso Matters
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on Friday, El Paso and Del Rio pastors Larry Floyd and Shon Young  note
that evangelical Christians "can help provide a constructive way
forward." 

Welcome to Monday'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, 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]>.  

STILL IN NEED - The U.S. labor shortage continues, with workforce
levels still below pre-pandemic figures, reports Giulia Carbonaro of
Newsweek
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Sectors including manufacturing, retail and education struggle to find
skilled workers, while immigration remains below pre-pandemic levels.
"It will take time for the normal flow of migrant workers to return, and
the U.S. is still in need of low-wage immigrant labor," said John
Blevins, a guest lecturer at Cornell University's SC Johnson College of
Business. 

STUDENTS' CHALLENGES - Florida's new immigration law is impacting
undocumented students in the state, writes Danielle Prieur of WMFE
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Salvador Rosas, a Seminole State College student from a mixed-status
family, notes increased stress and racial profiling, for example. About
40,000 college students in Florida could be affected. Meanwhile, in The
Washington Post
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Catherine Rampell writes on how "evidence available so far suggests [the
law is] undermining values that conservatives say they care about." 

STUCK IN LIMBO - Afghan evacuees feel stuck in limbo as their asylum
applications to be resettled in the U.S. under a special program known
as "P2" slowly make progress, reports Charlotte Greenfield of Reuters
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zooms in on the case of a family whom U.S. authorities advised to travel
to a third country to get their application processed. Their only
option: Pakistan, where 16,000 to 20,000 applicants are waiting. "It's
been two years and things have not improved, they should consider our
basic need and speed things up, the process is moving very slowly," said
family member Khalilzad. Ali M. Latifi has more on evacuees'
challenges in The New Humanitarian
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**'OPEN WOUND'** - Pope Francis addressed migrant deaths in the
Mediterranean on Sunday, urging politicians to focus on what he called
an "open wound," reports Valentina Za for Reuters
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"I encourage the political and diplomatic forces who are trying to heal
this wound in a spirit of solidarity and brotherhood, as well as the
efforts of those who work to prevent shipwrecks and rescue migrants," he
said. According to the International Organization for Migration, more
than 22,000 people have died or gone missing in Mediterranean waters
since 2014.  

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

 

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