The Forum Daily | Thursday, April 4, 2024
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**THE FORUM DAILY**

Migrants are accusing Mexican National Guard members of abuse of power,
reports Salvador Rivera of Border Report
.  

Migrants in camps along the U.S.-Mexico border say Mexican law
enforcement abused and robbed them. Katerine, a migrant from Ecuador,
said she and other women were separated from the men in their group and
then experienced body searches. She said the Mexican National Guard
soldiers also asked for $2,500 from each migrant. 

Separately, Amna Nawaz and colleagues at PBS NewsHour

report on the long and arduous journey through Mexico that asylum
seekers need to navigate to reach the southern U.S. border. Through an
interpreter, Nawaz spoke to a Venezuelan family to understand how their
already 15-day walking journey had unfolded and what kept them
going.  

"We had to pass through the jungle and cross rivers. They stole our
money and lied to us," 10-year-old Brittany said. Despite the tough
journey, Brittany keeps focused on a dream: "I want to study." 

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

**RESETTLEMENT** - The U.S. refugee resettlement program has rebuilt
in recent years, yielding higher numbers of admissions. But advocates
worry that a change in administration could squander the progress,
reports Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times
.
"The United States has allowed more than 40,000 refugees into the
country in the first five months of the fiscal year after they passed a
rigorous, often yearslong, screening process that includes security and
medical vetting and interviews

with American officers overseas," Aleaziz notes. 

**GROWTH** - Economists say that more immigrants joining our workforce
are a big reason the job market is expanding, even as unemployment rates
drift up, reports Justin Lahart of The Wall Street Journal
.
That also would suggest "the economy can keep adding plenty of jobs
without overheating," he writes. Meanwhile, without a different
immigration approach in Texas, "the shortage in our workforce will
remain and eventually become our Achilles' heel," Dan Hooper opines in
The Dallas Morning News
. 

**TOO FAR?** - Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielson said during
appeals court arguments that "maybe Texas went too far" with SB 4,
report Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed of CNN
.
But he also argued that new law, currently blocked while court hearings
proceed, would not intrude on federal immigration authority. A
conservative member of the three-judge appeals court panel already
suggested last month "that the law likely violated the Constitution and
Supreme Court precedent." 

**CHANGES** - Dalal and her children are among more than 2,000 Syrian
refugees who have resettled in Arizona since the civil war in their
homeland began, reports Samantha Callicutt of Arizona Luminaria
.
After her activism in Syria and the long journey to the U.S., Dalal says
of being in Arizona, "I feel happy here, but I also feel so sad that
there is a lot of people still suffering [in Syria]." 

**REST IN PEACE** - Peter Schey, an attorney who was involved in
immigrant rights cases related to the detention of children and
education, has died, Andrea Castillo of the Los Angeles Times

reports. Schey also led the charge to overturn California's
Proposition 187 in the 1990s. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

 

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