The Forum Daily | Thursday, April 18, 2024
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**THE FORUM DAILY**

It was a busy day on Capitol Hill yesterday.  

House Speaker Mike Johnson brought up a proposal similar to HR 2, a
severe border-focused and asylum-restricting bill
,
as part of the conversation about moving foreign aid forward, Marianna
Sotomayor and Leigh Ann Caldwell of The Washington Post

report. 

But the GOP is divided on how to proceed, and three Republicans on the
House Rules Committee refused to support the bill late in the day. 

On the Senate side yesterday, lawmakers voted to dismiss the articles of
impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after
a three-hour trial, report Jacqueline Alemany and Liz Goodwin of The
Washington Post
. 

Senators found the first article, which claimed Mayorkas had a "willful
and systemic refusal to comply with the law," to be unconstitutional on
a 51-48 vote. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) voted present. The vote
against the second article, which accused Mayorkas of a "breach of
public trust," was 51-49.  

Seems a good moment to re-up findings that Americans
,
including evangelical Christians
,
want cooperation on immigration and border solutions. Our immigration
principles for 2024

offer a better conversation - and check out recently posted
perspectives from Police Chief Ramon Batista
of Santa Monica,
California, and Pastor Eric Costanzo
of South Tulsa Baptist
Church in Oklahoma. 

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]
. 

**SUPPORT** - Mexico Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena visited Texas
yesterday with a message of support for people of Mexican descent who
feel uneasy given the state's immigration enforcement efforts, reports
Julian Resendiz of Border Report
.
"We want Mexican and immigrant communities here to know Mexico will
support them whether or not SB 4 is enforced," she said. Bárcena
reiterated that Mexico will not accept any migrants that Texas tries to
return to Mexico.  

**NURSING ASSISTANTS** - Migrants and asylum seekers can now take
classes and earn nursing assistant certificates at no cost at the San
Diego College of Continuing Education, reports Salvador Rivera of Border
Report
.
The program could be especially helpful for newcomers who were medical
professionals in their home countries. The shortage of certified nursing
assistants is severe, as the Urban Institute

highlighted last year. 

**CLASSROOMS** - Public schools have welcomed immigrant children for
decades, and increasing migration numbers mean new challenges and
opportunities for some schools, report Sarah Matusek and Jackie Valley
for The Christian Science Monitor
.
While some face funding and staffing restraints, educators see
multilingual classrooms as a chance for growth: Arriving students can
offer a "wonderful opportunity to learn a different culture, language,
different perspectives," said Tania Hogan of the University of Colorado
Boulder. 

**OPPORTUNITIES** - Arizona's Proposition 308, passed in 2022, made
a difference for college student and Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals recipient Maria Leon, as she writes in her op-ed for the
Arizona Republic
.
The policy allows more students to access in-state tuition no matter
their immigration status. "Empowering more students to enroll in college
can translate into massive benefits to Arizona and our country," Leon
concludes. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

**P.S.** A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by 19
Republican-led states against a Biden administration policy to expedite
asylum claim processing and deportations at the border, reports Nate
Raymond of Reuters
. 

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