The Forum Daily | Thursday, February 29, 2024
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**THE FORUM DAILY**

Today, President Biden and presidential candidate Donald Trump will make
separate border stops in Texas, as Uriel J. García of The Texas Tribune

reports.  

The White House said in a statement

that during his visit to Brownsville, President Biden will urge
Congress, especially GOP leaders, "to provide the funding needed for
additional U.S. Border Patrol agents, more asylum officers, fentanyl
detection technology and more." 

Meanwhile, Trump will be in Eagle Pass, where state officials have taken
over Shelby Park as a staging area for border enforcement. Trump has
expressed interest in further militarizing the immigration system, Gaige
Davila reports for Texas Public Radio
. 

Residents' reactions are mixed, reports Rick Jervis of USA Today
.
For the people of Brownsville and Eagle Pass, "any campaign stop will
simply showcase an immigration system that continues to disrupt their
communities - and a political one that has yet to deliver them a
solution," Jervis writes. 

Americans, including evangelical Christians, continue to want solutions,
as newly released polling shows
.
In contrast, Zolan Kanno-Youngs of The New York Times

analyzes how the visits to the border have become a performative symbol
in American politics.  

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 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]
. 

**EVANGELICALS' OPINIONS** - One of the new polls, from Lifeway
Research
,
indicates that evangelicals' support for immigration reforms has
increased, reports Diana Chandler of Baptist Press
.
That could encourage faith leaders to talk about immigration and
biblical perspectives,

she notes. "We can talk about both things, the rule of law and
compassion," said Dan Darling, director of the Land Center for Cultural
Engagement at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Read more in
the Evangelical Immigration Table's statement
. 

**EMERGING DATA** - Recent immigration court data show the
distribution of asylum seekers around the country, report Elena Mejia
and Lisa Beyer of Bloomberg
.
Although many are landing in states with big cities such as New York and
Illinois, rural areas with significant work in the meatpacking and
agriculture industries have seen an increase as well. A growing backlog
is a challenge for immigration courts, Mejia and Beyer note. In
Massachusetts, the Department of Justice plans to open a new immigration
court in early April to address the backlog there, Carla Rojo of NBC
Boston

reports. 

**E-VERIFY** - The Iowa State Senate has passed a bill that would
require businesses to use the federal E-Verify system to determine
workers' legal status in the United States, reports Stephen
Gruber-Miller of the Des Moines Register
.
The E-Verify system isn't 100% reliable and can often be burdensome to
employers, as we've noted
. Many
businesses in the state oppose the bill, Gruber-Miller reports. 

**COMPASSION** - In Dallas, Oak Lawn United Methodist Church is
responding with compassion to newly arrived migrants, reports Simone
Carter of the Dallas Observer
.
Its outreach program, Dallas Responds, hosts a welcome center "where
migrants can rest, refuel and receive travel assistance." That's a
blessing for many. "I am happy that I'm here: that I have hope, that I
have a new way to protect my family and that I escaped the threats,"
said Marvin, a migrant from Honduras. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

 

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