The Forum Daily | Monday, September 11, 2023
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THE FORUM DAILY

Cities and states far from the southern border are feeling the effects
of increasing migration and urging the Biden administration to help. 

As one example: Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey appealed for more
funding and, especially, quicker work authorizations, Mike Damiano
reports in the Boston Globe
<[link removed]"With
a historically low unemployment rate, tens of thousands of open jobs
across our state are going unfilled." 

In a new campaign, the Biden administration has begun to focus efforts
on encouraging eligible immigrants to apply for work permits, reports
Michael D. Shear of The New York Times
<[link removed]'s six months after they arrive.  

Julia Preston of The Marshall Project
<[link removed]"hiding in plain sight" and takes a
powerful look at the real people caught up in the process. "Whatever
honest work comes to me, I will do it," said Juan Carlos Bello, a
Venezuelan migrant who is now in New York. "No job has ever been a
dishonor for me." 

The administration should do more - and Congress could help, by
passing the bipartisan Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act
<[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 Jillian Clark, Ashling Lee, Clara Villatoro and Marcela
Aguirre. If you have a story to share from your own community, please
send it to me at [email protected]
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**SCHOOL ENROLLMENT** - Some migrant children are facing delayed
school enrollment, Gabrielle Emanuel reports for WBUR
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Here and Now. For the 800 migrant families in Massachusetts placed in
overflow hotels, lack of access to case workers and translators
complicates enrollment. The uncertainty of where families will be living
and for how long adds to the challenges. 

**THE GOSPEL'S CALL** - "Love must be the motivator for our actions.
And love is severely lacking in what the state of Texas is doing to
deter illegal immigration," megachurch pastor Ralph West writes in a
Houston Chronicle
<[link removed]"in the interest of both compassion and border security." 

**UNCERTAIN FUTURES** - Backlogs in the green card process continue to
affect young people who grew up in the U.S. on dependent visas thanks to
their parents' work but now are aging out, Sophie Carson reports in
the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
<[link removed]"All
people like me want is to stay in the place that we've called home for
so long," Vella said.  

**'CERTAINTY AND STABILITY'** - Under a class-action settlement,
the U.S. government has agreed to speed up the asylum process for around
20,000 Afghan evacuees living in the United States, reports Rafael
Carranza of the Arizona Republic
<[link removed]"This settlement will help bring certainty and stability as [Afghans who
fled] move forward with their new lives," said attorney Michael
Williams. An even better solution than moving asylum applications more
quickly? Passage of the Afghan Adjustment Act
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