The Forum Daily | Thursday, September 28, 2023
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The bodies of two Central American migrants were found Wednesday morning
along the railway tracks in Coahuila, Mexico, the Associated Press

reports.

The migrants had tried to climb a moving train that is part of a Mexican
network known as "The Beast" but didn't make it. Mexico President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he's planning a meeting with
officials from countries with high migration in the region.

"We have to reach an agreement. This is not just a Mexican issue, it's
a structural issue," López Obrador said.

Mexico is not the only country concerned with historically high
migration: Costa Rica officials recently ordered a state of emergency,
Sky News

reports.

The drivers of migration are solidifying the increase numbers, Rafael
Bernal of The Hill

reports. The political and economic crises in countries such as
Venezuela and Nicaragua and the ever-adapting smuggling trade are some
of the conditions fueling this "new normal," Bernal writes. At the same
time, channels such as parole for Haitians have resulted in small
successes.

"We must recognize these challenges for what they are: a humanitarian
crisis we must meet with compassion and resources," Forum President and
CEO Jennie Murray said
 
last night. "Americans want solutions, and we want Republicans and
Democrats to work together - not to divide us." 

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 Jillian Clark, Ashling Lee, Clara Villatoro and Katie
Lutz. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send
it to me at [email protected]
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**RESETTLEMENT NUMBERS** - The Biden administration will again set a
refugee cap of 125,000 for fiscal year 2024, including up to 50,000
slots for displaced people from Latin America and the Caribbean, reports
Camilo Montoya-Galvez for CBS News

**.**The latter shift is unprecedented and intended to take pressure off
of the U.S-Mexico border. "[T]he Biden administration has sought to
rebuild the resettlement infrastructure," Montoya-Galvez notes - with
some success.  

**BRAIN DRAIN** - In an op-ed for USA Today
,
Laurens Van Beek shares his experience of self-deporting at age 21 when
he aged out of the legal status granted through his parents' visas.
Despite being raised in the United States legally and being gainfully
employed, he had no legal path to stay. "[A]s countries like Canada
streamline their systems to attract new foreign talent, America can't
even retain the thousands of kids it raised and educated. This is a blow
to U.S. competitiveness," Van Beek writes. Speaking of Canada: It's
ramping up efforts to lure foreign "digital nomad" professionals with a
forthcoming "tech talent strategy," Lebawit Lily Girma reports in the
Financial Post
.

**STRUGGLE** - Dr. Feroz Bashari, a father of five and lecturer at the
University of Oklahoma, is just one of the many displaced Afghans
waiting on permanent solutions, Hannah France reports for KOSU
.
After the fall of Kabul, Bashari became one of the 1,800 Afghans to
resettle in Oklahoma. Now, their pending status is making everything,
including their employment status, uncertain. "[We] deserve the right to
live like others and plan like others for the future," Bashari said.

**UNDERSTANDING** - A conference at the Portland Public Schools'
Multilingual and Multicultural Center in Maine focused on how best to
help migrants integrate, reports Adam Bartow of WMTW News 8
.
With many migrants making their way to Maine within the last few years,
the conference focused on social, political and cultural integration.
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