More than 64 million requests to enter the United States have been registered through the CBP One app since its use expanded in January 2023, reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez for CBS News.

The numbers do not represent unique petitions — individuals can request appointments multiple times — but they shed light on the high demand to come to the U.S., Montoya-Galvez notes. 

"There's a lot of people who would love to migrate to the United States. In essence, they see CBP One as sort of a self-petitioning mechanism that we've never had before," said Theresa Cardinal Brown of the Bipartisan Policy Center and a Council on National Security and Immigration (CNSI) leader. 

The app was designed as one way "to give migrants a legal and orderly way to come to the U.S.," and unauthorized crossings among some groups have dropped. But results overall have been mixed as wait times for an appointment — 1,450 are made available daily — can be long.  

Separately, an unprecedented second impeachment vote for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is planned for today, as Tom Dempsey of NewsNation reports. A vote last week failed by the slimmest of margins. (Here’s a quick reminder of the CNSI's take on the effort.) 

Mayorkas has no plans to resign even if he is impeached, Andrea Castillo of the Los Angeles Times reports in a profile of the secretary. For Mayorkas, whose family escaped from Cuba when he was a boy, "[r]espect for the law and service to democracy are themes that run deep," she writes. 

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

RELIEF FOR DREAMERS — Our friends at the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, which represents more than 550 college chancellors and presidents, sent a letter urging leaders to include Dreamers in future immigration negotiations, reports Bianca Quilantan of Politico. "A failure to provide relief for Dreamers impacts the future of our economy, and losing this ‘capable workforce’ threatens national security interests as well, hampering the nation’s 'ability to be competitive and defend itself,’" the group wrote.  

RELIGIOUS WORKERS — Thousands of priests and other religious workers who came to the U.S. legally may have to leave because of immigration processing changes that have resulted in backlogs for religious worker visas and renewals, The Pillar reports. Fr. Kenn Wandera of Glenmary Home Missioners, which serves rural parishes across the U.S., is one. "My belonging is within Glenmary in the U.S.," Wandera said. "Full stop. ... This has been very worrying for me." 

DANGEROUS SPEECH — U.S. citizens, not migrants, are responsible for the vast majority of illicit fentanyl smuggling, Susan Benesch and Catherine Buerger of the Dangerous Speech Project underscore in a Los Angeles Times op-ed. Misinformation and disinformation to the contrary is dangerous speech, which inspires fear and violence by describing another group of people as a threat, they explain. "[S]uch dangerous disinformation distracts attention and resources from effective responses," Benesch and Buerger write. 

NONSOLUTIONS — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) border enforcement through Operation Lone Star is not among the solutions we need, the Austin American-Statesman’s editorial board writes. Separately, Thomas Rachko and Johanna Cajina of the Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute analyze the state’s SB 4 law, set to take effect March 5, in an op-ed for The Dallas Morning News. The law will empower local law enforcement to arrest individuals for illegal entry or re-entry. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

P.S. Take a look at Brian van de Graaff’s piece for WJLA on one of our faves, D.C. restaurant Immigrant Food.