THE FORUM DAILY

Two years since the United States completed the withdrawal of troops
from Afghanistan, around 80,000 Afghan evacuees in the U.S. remain in
limbo. 

Efforts to pass the bipartisan Afghan Adjustment Act
<[link removed]"[T]here's no pathway for [resettled Afghans] to apply for permanent
status," said Helal Massomi, an evacuee and now the Afghan policy
adviser for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. "And I think
that's not keeping a promise to allies of 20 years of war."  

In Whitney Shefte's video for The Washington Post
<[link removed]' welcome - on its "Stranger Becomes Neighbor
<[link removed]" podcast.
The two most recent episodes feature a female former elite Afghan
soldier
<[link removed]"to ensure 'better outcomes for Afghan
families.' " (Cameron Morsberger, Lowell Sun
<[link removed]'re pausing the Daily one more Friday and will be catching up
Tuesday, so we'll be back in your inbox Wednesday. 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 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]
<mailto:[email protected]>.  

**FASTER DEPORTATIONS** - The Biden administration's Family
Expedited Removal Management program is meant "to quickly sort out which
families can clear its asylum standards, which were tightened recently,
and give a final answer to those who can't," Alicia A. Caldwell
and Michelle Hackman report in The Wall Street Journal
<[link removed]"the Church's work assisting migrants
is to make up for the failures of the government, which refuses to enact
just immigration laws." 

**FARM LABOR** - Workers here on H-2A visas compose up to 15% of the
farm workforce and are becoming more important - despite the visa
program's challenges, report Andrea Hsu and Ximena Bustillo of NPR
<[link removed]'d note that the Farm Workforce Modernization Act
<[link removed]