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THE FORUM DAILY

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"Demographers say [immigrants] are key to providing enough people to
fill the labor force and balance out the swelling population of older
Americans," Tara Bahrampour of The Washington Post

reports today. 

That's based on new data from the Census Bureau indicating that
the nation's population will begin to decline later this century. The
bureau used several different scenarios to look at population change by
2100, basing the numbers on high, medium, low and zero immigration to
the United States.  

"These projections make clear that immigration is absolutely essential
to the nation's future population growth," said William Frey, a senior
demographer at the Brookings Institution. 

The data reinforce our argument

that "[t]he country will need more immigrants in order to continue to
thrive and beat back the looming ill effects of demographic deficit."
Our "Room to Grow" paper includes a formula for setting evidence-based
immigration levels.  

Meanwhile, right now the U.S. is missing out on economic gains because
of the green card backlog, reports Andrew Kreighbaum of Bloomberg Law
. 

According to recent research by the
Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), reducing green card barriers for the 7.6
million people waiting to be admitted to the U.S. and those here on
temporary visas would add $3.9 trillion in GDP gains over 10 years. Most
would be through the addition of workers to a country already dealing
with a significant labor shortage.  

"We're in need of new workers. And immigrants bring lots of skills and
knowledge that complement our existing labor force," said Jack Malde,
senior policy analyst for immigration and workforce policy at the BPC.
 

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

DREAMER SUPPORT - This week 60 companies signed a letter

urging Congress to offer certainty to Dreamers. "Businesses have not
forgotten that we need a lasting solution for DACA recipients and other
Dreamers," said Forum President and CEO Jennie Murray. "America will be
stronger when Republicans and Democrats work together to pass reforms
that offer certainty to Dreamers, their employers and their
communities." One of the signatories, BAL, posted about the effort
in The National Law Review
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WAITING FOR WORD - Thirty-eight people board a boat as part of their
migration journey. The boat seems to disappear. Then a relative of one
of the families aboard starts receiving threats saying that her family
has been kidnapped. What really happened remains a mystery, Lauren
Villagran of USA Today

reports. But "virtual kidnapping for ransom" is increasing, the FBI
says. And more people are using sea routes to avoid the dangerous
Darién Gap. 

PROTECTIONS - Immigrant rights lawyers argued this week that the
federal government can't limit protections for children who were
processed with their families under the "Remain in Mexico" program, then
separated and arrived unaccompanied, reports Edvard Pettersson of
Courthouse News Service
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Because the government relies on hearings that covered families,
children could be deported. The Trafficking Victims Protection
Reauthorization Act "doesn't allow this kind of à la carte treatment of
unaccompanied children," attorney Karen Tumlin said. 

CONTRADICTIONS - Despite the recent agreement between the U.S. and
Venezuela, the political situation in the South American country has not
improved, our Senior Fellow Linda Chavez writes for The xxxxxx
. The
volatile and dangerous conditions in Venezuela are "exactly the kinds of
abuses our asylum laws were intended to protect those seeking refuge in
the United States from enduring," Chavez writes. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan  

P.S. Houston artist Angel Quesada used his experience growing up on the
U.S.-Mexico border while acting as the official artist of a Day of the
Dead parade in Houston, Eric Killelea writes in Chron
. 

 

 

 

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