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"They told us they're going to relocate us, but not here in Manhattan, not close to where my kids go to school," said one Venezuelan mother who is waiting with her family to be transferred to another shelter. While officials say they are working with each family to find school transportation for their children, the city has a backlog of 2,000 transportation requests. Separately, Kevin Baxter of the Los Angeles Times walks through the challenges the U.S. immigration system poses for most immigrants. From young people who missed qualifying for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to people on temporary statuses, all face legal hurdles. "The pathway to legally immigrate to the U.S. has become so constrained that for many, it doesn’t truly exist," Baxter writes. Pamela Portocarrero, a DACA recipient herself, advocates for bipartisan immigration solutions in an op-ed for The Salt Lake Tribune. "The immigration system fails to provide millions of impacted families with certainty and a chance to fulfill our fullest potential," she writes. "These immigration bars, as well as threats to DACA, are devastating to millions of mixed-status families like mine." The challenges, as well as blessings, of temporary statuses and protections were the focus of one of our panels at our annual convening this month. All sessions are now posted online. 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, Isabella Miller and Darika Verdugo. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected]. LATEST ON THE HILL — Senators’ efforts to find agreement on immigration policy changes — to pair with funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan — are not looking promising, as Ursula Perano, Daniella Diaz and Burgess Everett spell out in Politico. Liz Goodwin and Jacob Bogage of The Washington Post have more on the negotiations, and for the Associated Press, Lisa Mascaro, Stephen Groves and Rebecca Santana look at the asylum and parole programs that "a deal … would greatly restrict." CHURCHES’ EXAMPLE — Seventeen churches are partnering to provide shelter to migrants in Chicago, Marissa Perlman, Todd Feurer and Sabrina Franza of CBS News Chicago report. Through the "Unity Initiative," each church will receive 20 migrants and help connect them with services and resources. "We are prepared to receive the migrants compassionately," said Dr. Michael Eaddy, pastor missionary of People's Church of the Harvest. To the east, the YMCA of Greater Boston is opening its doors during the day to migrant families, Matt Stout reports in the Boston Globe. CONTRAST — Joseph Berger, a retired journalist and Holocaust survivor who was 5 when his family fled to the U.S. in 1950, compares his family's experiences with those of modern migrants in a New York Times piece. Berger notes the stark contrast between the support his family received and the minimal resources available to today's migrants: "Bare bones as [our] refugee services were, they were almost luxurious compared with what today’s migrants are receiving." WELCOME — After arriving from Central Africa this past summer, Raphael and Ngongo Joseph were welcomed in Oneonta, N.Y., thanks in part to the Welcome Corps program, reports Jimmy Vielkind of The Wall Street Journal. "We need them as much as they need us," said Mark Wolff, a French language professor who helped the couple settle. "If you talk about immigration in the abstract, it can be scary. But when you meet people like Ngongo and Joseph you just want to help them." Our partners at We Welcome and Women of Welcome are working to form Welcome Corps sponsorship groups — for more information, please reach out.
Thanks for reading, Dan
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