The Forum Daily | Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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**THE FORUM DAILY** 

A new anti-immigration bill in Iowa is making immigrants consider
whether to leave the state, reports Hannah Fingerhut of the Associated
Press
. 

The legislation reflects pieces of Texas' controversial (and currently
court-blocked) SB 4 and would make being in Iowa a state crime for
someone previously deported from, or denied entry to, the U.S.  

The fragile, hard-earned trust between law enforcement and the immigrant
community could be at risk.  

Des Moines Police Chief Dana Wingert said that someone's immigration
status does not determine how the department keeps the community safe.
"I'm not interested, nor are we equipped, funded or staffed to take on
additional responsibilities that historically have never been a function
of local law enforcement," he said. 

An hour to the northeast in Marshalltown, Chief Michael Tupper [a Law
Enforcement Immigration Task Force co-chair]
expressed concerns last week, Zach Fisher of WHO 13 News

reported: "It just seems like something that is being sold to us as a
solution that's just going to make things worse for us here locally.
... My job is to keep the city of Marshalltown safe, and in order to do
that we need everybody in the community willing to work with us, talk to
us, call us when they need help." 

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

**TO WELCOME?** - While Americans continue to demonstrate welcome and
appreciate refugees' individual stories, the country on a larger scale
remains "in danger of turning its back on the global order set by the
Refugee Convention," Dara Lind writes in The American Prospect
.
With global displacement at a record high, Lind concludes that despite
the government's failings, "The U.S. isn't full. Its people are
demonstrating every day that they can make more room; that they can
support newcomers and therefore lead them to better support
themselves." 

**DACA'S BENEFITS** - A new report
by Clemson University
indicates that by not allowing DACA recipients to get professional
licenses, South Carolina is missing out on about $68 million of economic
output, reports Carlos Cristian Flores of WYFF 4
.
A bill that State Rep. Neal Collins (R) supports would pave the way.
"You have return on investment," Collins said. "You have the idea that
it's the American dream of getting a higher education and getting the
best job that you can and to me it's just a win/win for everybody." 

**LETHAL JOURNEY** - A boat carrying Chinese migrants capsized off
the coast of Mexico, killing eight people, Reuters

reports. The lone man to survive said the group had left Tapachula,
Mexico, near the border with Guatemala. As it becomes more difficult to
obtain U.S. visas and the economic situation in their homeland becomes
less tenable, more Chinese nationals are trying to reach the U.S. border
via Mexico.  

**COMMUNITY** - Staff at the International Institute of Southwest
Missouri (IISM) help guide newcomers as they navigate the complex U.S.
immigration system, Chris Drew of KSMU

reports as part of a "Sense of Community" series. Aline dos Santos
Gomes, IISM immigration coordinator, notes that many immigrants do not
understand how complicated the process can be. In the final installment
of the series
,
Michele Skalicky tells the story of two brothers who have made a new
home in Springfield, Missouri, after first fleeing the Democratic
Republic of Congo as refugees.  

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

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