The Forum Daily | Monday, April 1, 2024
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**THE FORUM DAILY** 

"Texas may not like the answers it's likely to get" from the courts
regarding its SB 4 law, attorneys Mark Fleming and Charles Bridge write
in Bloomberg Law
.
 

The pair dissect the legal case, including Texas' argument that the
U.S. Constitution's State War Clause allows it to act without
congressional approval if "actually invaded." But Arizona tried a
similar argument more than a decade ago, and it failed. 

"Texas' attempted end run around Arizona and federal preemption is
unlikely to succeed. Invoking the State War Clause depends on equating
immigration with invasion - an unsound position as a matter of
constitutional text, structure, and history," Fleming and Bridge
write. 

Separately, even Texas sheriffs who support SB 4 worry over the cost of
enforcement, reports John Mone of Scripps News
.
"We're financially strapped, you know, anything else that would be an
unfunded mandate could cripple this county," said Dale Carruthers,
county judge of Terrell County, a less populated area of West Texas that
includes 50 miles of the border. 

Other law enforcement officials, in Texas and beyond, have expressed
concerns

about SB 4 and similar state efforts. 

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

**'TO LIVE BETTER'** - As Iowa continues to see a "brain drain" of
young people who were born there, immigrants from Mexico and Central
America are helping to make up for their absence, reports Simon Montlake
of The Christian Science Monitor
.
In Sioux County, one of the only growing nonurban counties in the state
per the 2020 census, newcomers from Mexico and Central America are
filling jobs in key rural industries. "They come here to get a job, to
earn money, and to live better," says Carlos Perez, a Venezuelan-born
evangelical pastor. 

**NUANCE** - Many residents who live in communities in the Tucson
Border Patrol Sector are experiencing internal conflict as crossings
there have risen, Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt report for CNN
.
Retired teacher Paul Nixon recently brought a pregnant migrant woman and
her husband to safety, but only after considering the risks. In a
separate CNN

story, John King reports that many Arizona voters see the border as a
part of their community and economy. The conversation about the border
and immigration "is more polite, more nuanced, and more focused on
solutions than slogans," he writes. 

**REQUEST FOR SPEED** - With thousands of employers at risk of losing
immigrant workers because of work permit renewal delays, Democrats in
Congress are urging President Biden to expedite an extension, reports
Andrew Kreighbaum of Bloomberg Law
.
"Employers in our states cannot afford to wait until mid-April to know
whether their employees will be able to continue working legally," the
lawmakers wrote . "These employers need to
be able to plan and operate knowing that their workforce will not be
disrupted by abrupt changes in work authorization status."  

**BRIDGE** - A new employment-based visa program
that
would be market-respondent could help U.S. employers and alleviate
pressure at the border, Julia Gelatt of the Migration Policy Institute
writes in a Dallas Morning News

op-ed. Dubbed the "bridge visa," Gelatt writes that it "would help fill
in-demand roles in today's labor market, provide flexibility to
address emerging and future needs, and help bring greater order to the
U.S. immigration system."  

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

**P.S.** For the playlist: The Freakonomics podcast just completed a
series on immigration
.
The small piece I caught over the weekend was worthwhile listening. 

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