The Forum Daily | Monday, December 18, 2023
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As of this morning, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has temporarily
closed railway crossings in El Paso and Eagle Pass, Texas, to reallocate
necessary personnel to assist with migrants, reports Texas Public Radio
.

Border authorities reported nearly 3,000 apprehensions in Del Rio,
Texas, and around 1,300 migrants in El Paso on Sunday, as Rosa Flores
and Sara Weisfeldt of CNN

report.

In Arizona, Gov. Katie Hobbs ordered the state's National Guard to the
Mexico border to help federal agents manage the increasing number of
migrants crossing into Arizona, reports Stacey Barchenger of the Arizona
Republic
.

This move comes after CBP closed a remote Arizona border crossing near
Lukeville. "Arizona needs resources and manpower to reopen the Lukeville
crossing, manage the flow of migrants, and maintain a secure, orderly
and humane border," Hobbs said.

The order has received mixed reactions from other Arizona leaders.

Separately, despite the Senate having postponed its winter recess and a
weekend filled with negotiations, a deal on border, asylum and aid for
Ukraine and other allies is not likely before January, report Burgess
Everett and Myah Ward of Politico
.
For more on the kinds of real people whom the policies under
consideration would affect, read Julia Decker, policy director of the
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, in the Minnesota Reformer
.

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

**DISTURBING**- Donald Trump's dangerous rhetoric

on immigration continued at campaign stops in New Hampshire and Nevada
over the weekend, Kate Sullivan of CNN

reports. In New Hampshire, Trump also showed deference to Vladimir Putin
of Russia and Viktor Orban of Hungary and called people charged in the
Jan. 6 attack "hostages," Isaac Arnsdorf writes in The Washington Post
.
"[E]xperts, historians and political opponents have voiced growing alarm
about Trump's rhetoric, ideas and emerging plans for a second term,
pointing to parallels to past and present authoritarian leaders,"
Arnsdorf notes.

**ECONOMIC GROWTH** - International migration will be key to growth in
New Hampshire, Phil Sletten of the NH Fiscal Policy Institute writes in
the New Hampshire Business Review
.
"With more than twice as many job openings as unemployed workers in New
Hampshire thus far in 2023, employers will need the skills of
international migrants ... [t]o keep the state's economy moving
forward," Sletten notes. Separately, the Congressional Budget Office's
report on expected GDP growth this year notes that immigration at higher
levels than expected helped mitigate a growth slowdown, as Reuters

reports.

**ONGOING BATTLE** - The Farmworker Association of Florida has
challenged a state law criminalizing the transportation of undocumented
immigrants, reports Syra Ortiz Blanes of the Miami Herald
.
The provision, part of a tough law Gov. Ron DeSantis backed and signed
earlier this year, is facing scrutiny over potential harm to families
with mixed immigration statuses, clergy, and seasonal workers. As Fiona
Harrigan writes in Reason
,
leaders embracing such policies "could very well stifle the force that
has powered so much of Florida's success."  

**VOICE OF REASON**- We're fans of longtime immigration law and
policy expert Charles Foster, whom we honored this fall as a Keeper of
the American Dream
.
That's not the only reason we recommend his interview with Regina
Lankenau of the Houston Chronicle
.
In it, Foster shares his perspective on U.S. asylum policies - and
solutions. Here's hoping more people listen.

Thanks for reading,

Dan

 

 

 

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