The Forum Daily | Monday, November 06, 2023
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it will release more
than 64,000 supplemental H-2B Visas, for non-agricultural temporary
workers, in fiscal year 2024, reports Andrew Kreighbaum of Bloomberg Law
.  

The expansion comes after employers and elected officials around the
country have been asking for an increase in work visas to address both
the high numbers of migrant arrivals and labor shortages in key sectors.
The visas will benefit industries related to hospitality, tourism,
landscaping and seafood processing, among others. 

The temporary final rule will designate 20,000 supplemental visas to
workers from El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras and other South
American countries as part of efforts to reduce economic migration from
the region, Kreighbaum notes. 

Meanwhile, at the Western Hemisphere summit President Biden hosted
Friday, officials from 11 countries discussed ways to boost the
economies of the region and address migration, reports Michael D. Shear
of The New York Times
.  

Biden opened the meeting with words of hope, saying that the summit's
goal was to "harness the incredible economic potential of the Americas
and make the Western Hemisphere the most economically competitive region
in the world," Steve Holland and Andrea Shalal of Reuters

report. The leaders agreed to meet every two years, with Costa Rica
hosting in 2025. 

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
mailto:[email protected] [email protected]
.  

**LONG-TERM CARE** - Provider groups are applauding the efforts to
collect unused green cards and address labor shortages in the health
sector through the bipartisan Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act,
reports Jessica R. Towhey of McKnight's Long-Term Care News
.
"Creating more opportunities for international nurses to immigrate to
the U.S. will help strengthen our long-term care workforce and protect
access to care," said Clif Porter of the American Health Care
Association/National Center for Assisted Living.   

**SNAG** - With the Texas Legislature's special session ending
tomorrow, time is running out on a sweeping immigration enforcement
bill, reports Julián Aguilar of
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The bill, which would make unauthorized entry into Texas from Mexico a
state crime, has been subject to concerns - including among some
Republicans in the legislature - that it would conflict with federal
law. The bill could be taken up again in a follow-up special
session.  

**PRAYER**- Catholic representatives from different states gathered in
El Paso, Texas, to pray for the migrants who have died this year along
the U.S-Mexico border, reports Julian Resendiz for Border Report
.
The Mass held along the Rio Grande is a yearly tradition made especially
poignant this year by the record number of deaths. "We are praying in a
particular way here for those who have died pursuing their dream of
finding a place of refuge, of safety and found that dream die with them
in our deserts, in our canals," said El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz (who
is also a Forum board member). 

**HOPE** - Little Amal, the puppet depicting a refugee Syrian girl
searching for home, visited the U.S.-Mexico border, reports Lorena
Figueroa of The Guardian
.
Reaching gate 36 in the border fence, she stood on Mexican soil and
waved to migrant children, who stood in awe of the giant puppet. "Amal
made me feel happy and at peace again. For a moment, I forgot all my
hardships," said Esaú Colindres, an undocumented migrant. "She gave me
hope." 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan   

 

 

 

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