The Forum Daily | Wednesday, August 30, 2023
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THE FORUM DAILY

The Texas National Guard shut down its intelligence division within
Operation Lone Star after officers were caught using WhatsApp to spy on
migrant groups traveling through Mexico, report Davis Winkie of Military
Times
<[link removed]"a financial failure
and threat to the lives of asylum-seekers," reports Julian Resendiz of
Border Report
<[link removed]"medical emergency" less than 24 hours after
being taken into CBP custody in Harlingen, Texas, per the Associated
Press
<[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]. 

ASSUMPTIONS - A report analyzing records of communications between
California's corrections department and ICE shows that corrections
staff routinely assume people in their custody are deportable
immigrants, even when they are U.S. citizens or green-card holders,
reports Andrea Castillo of the Los Angeles Times
<[link removed]'s report comes after a lawsuit
<[link removed]'s signatories
state that "employers are prepared to offer training and jobs to
individuals who are authorized to work in the United States." 

'ZERO UNITS' - Thousands of Afghan fighters who served under the
CIA in covert "Zero Units" are among those facing uncertainty over their
status in the U.S., writes Dan De Luce of NBC News
<[link removed]"[I]f anybody deserves to be
here, it's the Afghans who stood alongside us against terrorism," said
Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Florida, whom we hope is encouraging movement on the
Afghan Adjustment Act
<[link removed]'s President Rodrigo Chaves yesterday
and discussed efforts to address high migration in the Western
Hemisphere. Early this year, Costa Rica agreed to set up two centers
where qualified migrants can be processed for asylum protection. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

P.S. On a recent episode of the podcast The Kingdom & Its Stories
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