The Forum Daily | Wednesday, February 21, 2024
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**THE FORUM DAILY** 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is suing Annunciation House, a
Catholic nonprofit that assists migrants at the border, William Melhado
of The Texas Tribune

reports. 

The legal battle between the two started when Paxton demanded that the
organization hand over "extensive documentation about the immigrant
clients that it serves along the border," with a deadline of the
following day, Melhado reports. If the state wins, Annunciation House
might have to stop operating in Texas, 48 years after it began helping
migrants with daily needs - including food and places to go that that
aren't city streets - as well as legal services. 

"If the work that Annunciation House conducts is illegal - so too is
the work of our local hospitals, schools, and food banks," Annunciation
House Director Ruben Garcia said in a statement. 

Meanwhile, the disagreement between Texas and the federal government
over immigration policy and enforcement continues as Gov. Greg Abbott
(R) announced a new military base outside of Eagle Pass, reports Ali
Bradley for NewsNation
.
The base will house up to 2,300 National Guard soldiers working at the
border.  

A large number of them, up to 1,000, may come from Florida, Kirby Wilson
of the Tampa Bay Times

reports. That doesn't count members of the Florida State Guard whom
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) also has offered. Wilson takes a deeper look at
DeSantis' border-related actions. 

Welcome to Wednesday'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, Darika Verdugo and
Clara Villatoro. If you have a story to share from your own community,
please send it to me at [email protected]
. 

**HOUSE MEASURE** - Bipartisan members of the House have put forward a
foreign aid and border package, Caroline Coudriet and Briana Reilly
report in Roll Call
.
Our policy team summarizes

the border- and asylum-related details. "We appreciate bipartisan
efforts and solutions, but we have significant concerns that this bill
would cut off humanitarian protections and place asylum seekers in
danger without including workable alternative pathways," Jennie said in
a statement

yesterday. Separately in The Atlantic
,
Jerusalem Demsas writes that the federal government's dysfunction on
immigration fails both migrants and the American communities receiving
them.  

**TOGETHER FOR DREAMERS** - In Wisconsin, a bipartisan legislative
push seeks to empower DACA recipients to further their education and
workforce integration - and help the state - by removing hurdles
like high out-of-state tuition and barriers to professional licensure,
reports Lina Tran of WUWM
.
Led by state Reps. John Macco (R) and Sylvia Ortiz-Velez (D), the
proposed legislation is designed to mitigate workforce shortages in
essential sectors. 

**CONTRIBUTIONS** - The benefits of immigrants' diligence, diversity
and entrepreneurship in the U.S. underscore the importance to the
nation's future of reforming immigration policies, columnist Josh
Farley writes in The Seattle Times
.
Farley zooms in on the story of Simón Sosa, who fled Venezuela in 2017
and now is managing green energy projects. Immigration naysayers, Farley
writes, "cannot contend with a universal truth: Our country needs
immigrants, and an orderly way to bring them here." 

**A BLESSING** - Florida groups are partnering to provide health care
services to immigrants, reports Lizbeth Gutierrez for Bay News 9
.
Nancy Hernandez of Ministerio Mujeres Restauradas Por Dios started the
clinic after the state's new immigration law required hospitals to
start asking about patients' immigration status. "After seeing all
those people that would come scared and asking for help, I decided to
open this as a blessing for them," Hernandez said. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

**P.S.** As spring training gets under way, poet and essayist Jaswinder
Bolina writes in The Washington Post

about immigrants who bring so much to the game. This sounds familiar
.  

 

 

 

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