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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]. 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. Thanks for reading, Dan |
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