The Forum Daily | Monday, October 30, 2023
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The digital world continues to influence migration. Today's examples
included an increase in Chinese migrants using Panama's Darién Gap
after seeing video and social media guidance, report Elliot Spagat and
Didi Tang of the Associated Press
.  

From January through September, Chinese migrants were fourth on the list
of nationalities coming into the country, behind Venezuelans,
Ecuadorians and Haitians. 

Seeking to escape the political and economic climate in their home
country, migrants will fly to Ecuador, where they do not need a visa,
and make their way to the U.S-Mexico border. Short video platforms and
messaging apps provide migrants with precise guides for their journey:
not only the Darién Gap route but also what to pack, how to survive in
the jungle and how to interact with U.S. immigration officers. 

Cellphones and success stories on social media - in addition to
politics at home - also are part of the story of high migration from
India, reports Tarini Parti of The Wall Street Journal
.
Nearly 42,000 Indian migrants crossed the border in fiscal year 2023,
more than double the 2022 number, according to U.S. Customs and Border
Protection.  

"[Border data] it really is pointing to this huge trend of mass
migration worldwide. We're seeing that people from other countries are
making their way to the U.S. border, when traditionally they haven't,"
said Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, an analyst at the Migration Policy
Institute. 

Welcome to Monday'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, Clara Villatoro and Katie Lutz. If you have
a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at
[email protected] . 

**WORK PERMITS** -In a federal-state partnership, Massachusetts will
host a work permit clinic as the state tries to lessen the strain on its
emergency shelter system, reports Samantha J. Gross of the Boston Globe
.
Meanwhile, in Nebraska, companies are actively reaching out to local
refugee and immigrant communities to find employees and address a
significant workforce shortage, reports Paul Hammel of the Nebraska
Examiner
.  

**RISKING TALENT** - The United States risks losing talent if the
immigration system is not updated to respond to current needs, Semyon
Dukach writes for Fortune.

Dukach came to the U.S. when he was 9 as a refugee from the Soviet
Union. Now he owns a venture capital firm. "If we continue to
successfully dissuade people from building a life in our country with
border walls and red tape, it will eventually throw the nation into a
labor and economic crisis," he writes.  

**MAINSTREAM** - As Ronald Brownstein looks at many Republican
presidential candidates' harsh rhetoric on immigration in The Atlantic
,
Greg Sargent writes in his column for The 
Washington
Post
 about
new House Speaker Mike Johnson's pickup of conspiracy-theory rhetoric.
Read these, then take another look at our resource on the "Great
Replacement" theory
. 

**SCHOOLS RESPOND** - Public schools across the country are adapting
to an increase in migrant students, a team at Axios

reports. With tight budgets and a teacher shortage, schools are trying
to find the space and meet the needs of students who already have been
through so much just to make it to the United States. 

**WELCOME CENTER** - San Diego County will create a second welcome
center for immigrants and refugees amid the increase in migrant
arrivals, reports Emily Alvarenga of The San Diego Union-Tribune
.
Immigrants planning to stay in San Diego will be able to get information
on topics ranging from resettlement to health care. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

 

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