The Forum Daily | Monday, April 15, 2024
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**THE FORUM DAILY**
Increased patrols by Mexico's army and National Guard along the
U.S.-Mexico border may be having an impact on the number of migrants
reaching the U.S., a team at CNN

reports.  

The increase in patrols followed the Biden administration's push for
more action by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
According to Mexico's Migration National Institute, a government
agency that works to regulate migration, the number of migrants has
dropped since patrols increased. 

Human smugglers are changing their tactics in response. Further
solutions will require the U.S. and Mexico to work together, Mexican
migration official David Pérez Tejada said: "It has to be an in-depth,
serious solution between both Congresses to determine what is going to
be the real reform that we need." 

For migrants who try to reach the U.S. without authorized entry, even
more perils await. Migrant deaths along the southwest border have jumped
in recent years as record numbers make the dangerous journey north,
report Arelis R. Hernández, Marina Dias and Daniele Volpe of The
Washington Post
.
 

An increase in drowning deaths has left officials at an impasse as to
how to handle the remains. "There is an overwhelming sense of 'What
are we going to do?' You want to make sure they get back to their
loved ones, but it's too many people crossing the river. Where do we
put the bodies?" said Jeannie Smith, a justice of the peace who records
migrant deaths. 

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

**TALENT BACKLOG** -Nearly 1.2 million highly skilled Indians and
their dependents are waiting for green cards, writes Stuart Anderson for
Forbes
. The
backlog for skilled immigrants in the top three categories of
employment-based immigration could threaten the United States' ability
to attract foreign-born talent, Anderson notes. Per-country limits in
place for decades are one reason for the long wait. 

**'EMBRACE HUMANITY'** - Elizabeth Nguyen's father came to the
U.S. as a Vietnamese refugee nearly 50 years ago. Now Nguyen and her
husband are hosting migrants arriving in the Boston area, Anjana Sankar
writes in The Boston Globe
.
"Whenever I see so much devastation around, I think about the family
that hosted my dad and the moment they decided to embrace humanity,"
said Nguyen, a minister and advocate. Separately, more than 65,000
private sponsors are enrolled to resettle refugees through the Welcome
Corps, Matthew La Corte of the Niskanen Center

writes. 

**TRAUMA** - Children's advocates in Texas are warning against
busing migrant children and their families to new cities, as it may
cause more trauma for the kids, reports Stella M. Chávez of KERA
. The
long journeys to get to the U.S.-Mexico border are traumatizing to begin
with, they note. Instead of busing families to unknown destinations at
all hours, "we should let these families know where they're going," said
Bob Sanborn, CEO of Children at Risk, based in Houston. "We should help
them decide where they are going to go." 

**COURAGE** - Despite threats, Guatemalan Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini
continues to fight for migrants and others who are marginalized, reports
Giovanna Dell'Orto of the Associated Press
.
Ramazzini advocates for a "strictly and essentially human" approach to
migrants. "You'd be hard-pressed to find another leader in the church
or otherwise in Central America who is more trusted by the poor than
he," said Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, who is working with
Ramazzini to address poverty and other root causes of
migration. (Seitz is also a Forum board member.) 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

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