Lots of southern border news to update today. 

First, a federal survey has found that the floating barrier Texas installed in the Rio Grande under the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott is mostly in Mexico, Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS News reports. 

Elsewhere, CBP has confirmed the deaths last month of two migrants who were found in medical distress amid scorching temperatures, reports Fernie Ortiz of Border Report. Separately, nonprofits in Matamoros, Mexico, are working to relocate a camp of more than 1,000 migrants to a hospital being renovated to house them, Sandra Sanchez reports, also in Border Report. The camp had no running water and little food. 

In El Paso, some migrants are sleeping on the streets as the city receives migrants from other border sectors, shelters reach capacity and some migrants reach a time limit for shelter stays, Cindy Ramirez of El Paso Matters writes. "We don’t want to be here on the streets any more than you want us here," said a 23-year-old woman. "We’re just looking for work, for an opportunity that we didn’t have in our country."  

Evangelical women and the bishop of El Paso are among those pushing back on the harsh treatment of migrants arriving in the state under Operation Lone Star. Nearly 800 people have signed an open letter urging Abbott to remember Jesus’ call "to see every person as a whole human made in the image and likeness of God." 

"The border measures that we are seeing in Texas go against Christian values that [Texas] has proudly protected in the past," We Welcome Director Tess Clarke said in a statement. " … We need policies that uphold human dignity and support the interests of the American people."  

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 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].   

DACA UNCERTAINTY — Ongoing court challenges to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals have left 22,000 eligible migrants in Arizona without legal protection as their applications languish, reports Shelly Garzon of Cronkite News. People such as college student Maria Benitez are unable to access professional licenses and face employment hurdles. "You have to work extra hard just to level up with everyone else," she said. "It’s kind of just like waiting for a little miracle to help you get what you want." 

FLORIDA LAWSUIT — Immigration activists are hurrying toward another try to temporarily halt a part of Florida’s new immigration law that criminalizes the transportation of undocumented migrants into the state, reports Syra Ortiz Blanes of the Miami Herald. "Our plaintiffs show the profound human impact of who this law affects," said Evelyn Wiese, attorney at Americans for Immigrant Justice. "We have families that are now afraid to travel together back into Florida." 

AFGHAN ALLIES — Jen Kirby of Vox takes an in-depth look at both the progress and the holdups for tens of thousands of Afghan allies who await congressional action to cement their futures here. "It’s not only a humanitarian issue, which it certainly is, but it’s a matter of national security," said our President and CEO, Jennie Murray. Separately, Joseph Stepansky of Al Jazeera reports that many Afghan allies who supported American forces are still trapped in Pakistan, waiting for a visa that could allow them to travel to the U.S. 

ACCOMPANIMENT — "In the world of asylum seekers, everything that happens to them is based on the discretion of others. That often means at the whim of authority," Pauline Hovey in a personal essay for the National Catholic Reporter. But a friendly hand makes a difference. Hovey describes her journey accompanying an asylum seeker in the process of being released from a detention center and welcoming her to her home, "a grace beyond description."  

Thanks for reading, 

Dan