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The proposal, according to Hochul, aims to promote independence for those who rely on state services. "I’m anxious to get this moving quickly," she said. State agencies already have identified nearly 4,000 entry-level government positions that could be filled by newcomers with work authorization. The jobs are mostly in food service, equipment maintenance, facilities management and office assistance, Williams and Nahmias note. In Massachusetts, Gov. Maura Healey (D) visited a provisional shelter set up in a recreational complex in the Roxbury neighborhood hours before migrants who have been sleeping on the floor at Logan International Airport started relocating there, report Paula Moura and Beth Healy of WBUR. "We need to make sure we have a place for people to go safely," Healey said. "I continue to call on Congress to act. President Biden has put forward a plan." Healey also is working with resettlement agencies on a yearlong pilot program to help migrant families get long-term housing and jobs, Chris Van Buskirk reports in the Boston Herald. 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 Isabella Miller, Jillian Clark, Clara Villatoro and Ally Villarreal. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected]. STILL ON HOLD — The narrative on the Senate border compromise has swung back to pessimism, Stef W. Kight and Zachary Basu report in Axios. Meanwhile, Miriam Jordan of The New York Times analyzes how seeking asylum has become the path of choice for so many. "We do need more boots on the ground," said security expert, George W. Bush administration alum and CNSI leader Michael Neifach. "We do need more border infrastructure. But you can’t fix this by just doing that. We need to understand that the border is not the end of it." DANGEROUS — Robert Downen and Uriel J. García of the Texas Tribune report that Texas’ defiance of the federal government is encouraging right-wing secessionists and far-right militias, which increases the risk of border vigilantism and violence. As some politicians use "invasion" rhetoric regarding the border, Frank O. Bowman, III writes in Just Security that per the Constitution’s definition, the situation is nothing of the kind. We’ve noted before that such rhetoric already has had consequences. A CALL FOR COMPASSION — A state contractor of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R) administration dropped flyers promoting free migrant relocation trips at a Latino church in Orlando, reports Ryan Gillespie of the Orlando Sentinel. Local faith groups, as well as elected officials, are upset and calling for compassion, reports Jeff Brumley of Baptist News Global. "We must call upon our state government to literally stand down from your political agendas and begin to look at the well-being of mankind," said Bishop Derrick McRae of The Experience Christian Center in Orlando. AMERICAN VALUES — As he endures his own challenges in Chicago, Venezuelan asylum seeker Kelvin Garcia also is volunteering to help other newcomers, Angela Chen of ABC7 reports. Separately, After seeing the reality at the U.S. border himself, College of Charleston (S.C.) professor William McCorkle calls for compassion for people seeking asylum in an op-ed for The San Diego Union- Tribune. Asylum seekers "believe in the dream and promise of America — an America that George Washington said should be a refuge to all, not just the highly educated and elite," McCorkle writes. Thanks for reading, P.S. A new exhibition, "Portraits of Immigrants: Unknown Faces, Untold Stories" by Betsy Ashton, is now on display at Trinity Church in Princeton, N.J. Krystal Knapp of Planet Princeton has the story.
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