The Forum Daily | Friday, February 9, 2024
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THE FORUM DAILY

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In a new report
, the
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that immigration will add
nearly $7 trillion to the economy within the next decade by boosting the
workforce and demand for goods, services and housing, reports Rich
Miller of Bloomberg
.
 

The CBO isn't alone in noting the potential for growth. "The U.S.
economy has benefited from immigration," Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome
Powell said on CBS News' 60 Minutes

last weekend.  

Miller notes that the report emerges just after the Senate halted the
bipartisan border and immigration deal. Molly Ball of The Wall Street
Journal

offers some history that led to this point, and in an opinion post on
Texas GOP Vote
,
Charles Frantes agrees with us

that the bill could serve as a foundation for future negotiations.  

"Rather than playing political football and blaming the other side for
lack of action on the border crisis, Republicans and Democrats should
work together on solutions," Frantes writes.  

Evangelical leaders continue to advocate for a conversation - and
solutions - that center on biblical principles, reports Addie Offereins
of World
.
"Evangelical means follower of Christ, and proclaimer of the good news,"
said Gabriel Salguero, President of the National Latino Evangelical
Coalition. "It's my hope that we, as evangelical voters, would
approach the immigration issue from a gospel centered lens and not a
partisan lens." 

And Justin Giboney, a minister, attorney and president of the AND
Campaign, has a compelling commentary in Christianity Today
.
"We can't afford these partisan rivalries and the selfish ambition
that perpetually stalls important legislation until the next election,"
he writes.  

Welcome to Friday'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, Ally Villarreal and
Clara Villatoro. If you have a story to share from your own community,
please send it to me at [email protected]
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**SPEAKING OF FAITH** - Hostility toward refugees contrasts with
faith-based calls to welcome the stranger, Joan Rosenhauer, Executive
Director of Jesuit Refugee Service/USA, writes in Jesuit magazine
America
.
"The message seems lost that welcoming the stranger is central to who we
are as followers of Christ - and should be central to who we are as
Americans, having built our country through the contributions of
generations of immigrants," she writes. 

**NAVY OFFICER'S PATH** - When he was 16, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr.
Shahram Sean Ahrar came to the U.S. from Iran with nothing, writes
Senior Airman Zachary Foster of MacDill Air Force Base
.
Decades later, after building a life in America, Ahrar's people skills
and cultural knowledge allowed him to help Afghans resettle in the
U.S. as part of Operation Allies Welcome.  

This week in local welcome: 

* A rescue mission led by former Army intelligence officer Jason Kander,
also a Democratic former Missouri secretary of state, helped several
families escape the Taliban and make their way to the United States.
(Eric Adler, The Kansas City Star
)  

* Beautiful photos and text allow Afghans to share their stories of
welcome and challenge as they resettled in Sacramento, California.
(Sasha Abramsky and Fred Greaves, Comstock's Magazine
) 

* In Knoxville, Tennessee, Mohamad Hamdard started a restaurant that
celebrates his culture with the help of a local nonprofit. (Ryan
Connors, WBIR
) 

**BORDER, MIGRATION QUICK BITES** -  

* Deportation flights from the U.S. to Venezuela, part of a pact
intended to curb migration, have been halted, with Venezuela initiating
recent cancellations, report Annie Correal, Genevieve Glatsky and Hamed
Aleaziz of The New York Times
. 
 

* The share of unauthorized migrant crossings is down in Texas and up in
Arizona and California, though irregular migrant encounters have
generally dropped across the southern border,

** **reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS News
. 

* David Martin Davies of Texas Public Radio

has more on Eagle Pass, Texas, residents' anxiety as their city
remains a focal point. 

**GUESS WHO SAID IT** - Fewer arrivals from abroad were causing "a
great deficiency of laborers in every field of industry, especially in
agriculture and in our mines ...." The occasion was an address to both
houses of Congress, which responded with an immigration bill. Find the
answer in Harold Holzer's book excerpt in Smithsonian Magazine
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Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

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