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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.
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