Physicians along the southern border are trying to better track and study the phenomenon and suggest that the increase stands out beyond the higher number of migrants coming to the border, Jordan writes. 

"One look, and I know it’s another wall fall," said Brian Elmore, an emergency medicine physician at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso. 

Meanwhile, with pressure from the U.S. government to curtail migration north, El Salvador has begun to charge a $1,130 fee to travelers from dozens of countries who connect through the country’s main airport, reports Megan Janetsky of the Associated Press.  

Authorities say 57 people from mainly African countries and India have paid the fee since the end of October. Officials say the fee is not explicitly to counteract migration, though the government acknowledged a recent increase in migrants from these countries. 

A note that we’re heading to Houston for the Forum’s annual Leading the Way convening. What better time than a year from the 2024 election to gather faith, law enforcement, business and national security leaders and talk about immigration solutions that unify rather than divide? We’ll bring you an abbreviated Daily tomorrow, with no edition Thursday or Friday. 

On my reading list: J. David Goodman, Edgar Sandoval and Robert Gebeloff’s piece in The New York Times on Texas’ changing demographics.  

Welcome to Tuesday’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]. 

MAYORKAS — Eight Republicans joined Democrats last night in at least slowing a politicized effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, report Melissa Quinn and Caitlin Yilek of CBS News. The House voted 209-201 to refer the impeachment measure, introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), to committee. A DHS spokesperson said the effort is "completely without merit and a harmful distraction from our critical national security priorities."  

ON CAMPUS — Good news at colleges and universities: International students are returning after the pandemic. The growth rate of such students is at its fastest in 40-plus years, reports Nick Anderson of The Washington Post. The number of international students in U.S. higher education grew 12% last school year from the previous one, according to a report from the State Department and Institute of International Education. Students from India and other South Asian countries fueled the growth. Their economic contribution last school year alone was a cool $40.1 billion, Anna Esaki-Smith reports in Forbes. 

CITIZENSHIP — A bill in New York that would help the families of military veterans become U.S. citizens is awaiting Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature, reports Jamie DeLine of News10. The measure would provide legal resources and social workers to guide eligible family members through the process. 

GRANNIES RESPOND — An appeal to nationwide members of Grannies Respond/Abuelas Responden seeks secondhand winter coats to help legally processed migrants on the Texas-Mexico border stay warm, reports Sandra Sanchez of Border Report. Organization leaders launched the effort after a visit to the Rio Grande Valley in October where they heard the needs of Team Brownsville, a nonprofit that assists migrants.  

Thanks for reading,  

Dan