The Forum Daily | Tuesday, August 29, 2023
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THE FORUM DAILY

On one hand, we have a labor shortage in the United States. On the other
hand, thousands of asylum seekers and other arriving migrants are
willing to work. Jasmine Garsd of NPR
<[link removed]"Outside of periods of crushing recessions, labor is always our biggest
challenge," said Scott Grams, executive director of the Illinois
Landscape Contractors Association and one of scores of business leaders
urging the government
<[link removed]"It is a difficult blow being here and not
being able to do anything," said Venezuelan Jessica Davila. 

At the same time, the Fed continues to nod to immigration as important
in countering inflation as well as labor shortages, Diccon Hyatt writes
on Investopedia
<[link removed]'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, Jillian Clark, Ashling Lee and Katie
Lutz. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send
it to me at [email protected]. 

GLOBAL TALENT - With North Dakota's job vacancies estimated around
40,000, the brand new state Office of Legal Immigration will
be looking for global solutions, reports David Olson of Inforum
<[link removed]"[W]e're seeing massive shortages, and we need highly educated, highly
skilled people to fill those jobs. And we're creating these artificial
barriers that are preventing those students from accessing those jobs
and helping fill those roles," said Sonny Metoki of The Education Trust
in Tennessee. 

INHUMANE TREATMENT - U.S. Border Patrol has been violating a federal
court order mandating the humane treatment of migrants by detaining
asylum-seekers outdoors in harsh desert conditions in Arizona for an
extended period, Ryan Devereaux reports in a deep dive for The Intercept
<[link removed]"Management is forcing us to violate these things that they should have
- basic human necessities," a CBP official told The Intercept.  

HIGHER RISK - Migrant deaths are just shy of the total number in
2022, reports Salvador Rivera of Border Report
<[link removed]"A lot of the anti-asylum measures
push migrants trying to cross into the U.S. through very treacherous
ways, whether it's mountains or deserts or climbing a 30-foot border
wall where the risk of dying is very high," said Pedro Rios, director of
the American Friends Service Committee.  

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

**P.S**. On my list to try in Boston: One resettled Afghan family's
pop-up dining. If you aren't hungry before you read Devra First's
story in the Boston Globe
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