The Forum Daily | Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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**THE FORUM DAILY**
Immigrant communities in Iowa are preparing for a new anti-immigrant
law to go into effect, reports Catherine E. Shoichet of CNN
. 

Signed into law just last week, the legislation allows state law
enforcement to arrest undocumented immigrants and effectively gives
deportation powers to local judges. Iowa is one of nine states that have
passed or considered passing legislation along the lines of Texas' SB
4, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. 

For many immigrants in Iowa, the new legislation has caused confusion
and concern. Some law enforcement leaders worry about the effects on
community safety, as The Gazette

reports.  

"This law will make the job of law enforcement more difficult. It will
diminish public safety because it will cause people to needlessly fear
the police," Marshalltown Chief of Police and Law Enforcement
Immigration Task Force Co-Chair Michael W. Tupper said in a statement
. 

Anthony Pahnke, who witnessed the aftermath of the 2008 immigration raid
in Postville, Iowa, and is vice president of Family Farm Defenders,
writes that the new law could cause similar trauma. "Far from
celebrating this legislation, we should recognize how such heavy-handed
approaches are not only cruel, but ultimately ineffective," Pahnke
writes in a Des Moines Register

op-ed. 

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] . 

**GROWTH** - As birth rates decrease and some native-born Americans
move out of Ohio, immigrants have become crucial to Columbus' growth,
reports Peter Gill of The Columbus Dispatch
.
Per the Census Bureau, immigrants account for more than half the
city's population growth from 2020 to 2023. "If it wasn't for
immigration in a state that struggles retaining population like Ohio, we
would have much faster population loss," said Ohio State University
urban economist Mike Partridge. "Once you start losing population, it's
pretty easy to turn into a vicious cycle downward." 

**JOB CREATORS** - Per capita, immigrants are 80% more likely to start
businesses than people born in the U.S., according to a Massachusetts
Institute of Technology study. On Marketplace Morning Report
,
host David Brancaccio and senior economics contributor Chris Farrell get
into the details. "Immigrant entrepreneurs in the U.S. are associated
with a net gain in jobs," Farrell said. "Specifically, they're
responsible for roughly one in four of all jobs in young firms
." 

**'INDISPENSABLE'** - We've been mentioning our board member,
Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, a lot. He continues to bear
mentioning. His latest, an essay in America: The Jesuit Review
,
is a moving piece about the "betwixt and between" nature of living at
the border. Seitz encourages us to see the border through migrants'
eyes. "We have forgotten that despite all the fits and starts, despite
the history and legacy of injustice and exploitation, migration is an
indispensable part of our American narrative, not something to fear," he
writes. 

**CHOICES** - On one front, some advocates are urging the Biden
administration to grant work authorization to longtime undocumented
immigrants, as Miriam Jordan and Lydia DePillis report in The New York
Times
.
On another, the president could yet move forward with a "nuclear"
executive order focused on reducing unauthorized border crossings, as
Stef W. Kight and Hans Nichols report for Axios
. The
Chicago Sun-Times

editorial board points to a different path forward - and to the need
for "Congress ... to get real" about immigration reforms. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

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