"We're reaching an agreement so that if they make the decision to deport, they do so directly," said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who also mentioned that Mexico is open to working with the U.S. on the new measures after the presidential proclamation announced Tuesday. 

Meanwhile, migrants are concerned and confused as deportations have begun under the new asylum restrictions, report Valerie Gonzalez and Elliot Spagat of the Associated Press.  

While many migrants are willing to test their luck with the CBP One app, which offers 1,450 daily appointments to enter the United States legally, some worry about whether the already overwhelmed app can handle more applications.  

"Imagine what’s going to happen with what they’ve done. The system is going to collapse again," said Salvadoran migrant Esmeralda Castro, who now is living at a migrant camp near Brownsville, Texas. The app has experienced complications before, Gonzalez and Spagat note. 

How the new asylum restrictions could be implemented on a large scale without new funds and personnel is another significant question, as Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times reports.  

Welcome to Friday’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]. 

ECONOMIC EFFECTS — Economists are saying that President Biden’s executive actions on asylum could tighten the labor market, reports Rebecca Picciotto of CNBC. "A steady influx of immigrants is critical to ensuring the U.S. labor force can continue to grow," said Brookings Institution economist Tara Watson. 

RESETTLEMENT UP — The United States resettled 7,477 refugees in May, per the State Department’s refugee resettlement report. That’s 1,090 more than were resettled in April. Forum policy expert Dan Kosten points out that we have a shot at reaching 100,000 resettlements in fiscal year 2024, which hasn’t happened since 1994. 

Meanwhile, this week in local welcome more broadly: 

WELCOMING — Clevelanders and city officials alike are welcoming large numbers of migrants who signify "an essential path to restoring and growing the city's population, which has declined in every U.S. census since 1960," reports Sam Allard of Axios Cleveland. An estimated 5,000 immigrants arrived in the city in 2023. "Our community does a great job of welcoming people, training them and educating them," said Joe Cimperman, president and CEO of nonprofit Global Cleveland.   

MIGRANT CHILDREN — Denver officials say they are trying to protect migrant children through initiatives including a program the city recently launched, report Alex Fitzpatrick, Kavya Beheraj and Alayna Alvarez of Axios Denver. "[These initiatives] provide actual sustainability for families and allow kids to focus on being kids," said Denver Human Services spokesperson Jon Ewing. The city received more than 1,400 unaccompanied migrant children between 2015 and 2023.  

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

P.S. In a Q&A posted just this morning, Forum Senior Fellow Linda Chavez analyzes the history of birthright citizenship. It’s "one of the characteristics that makes the United States exceptional," she writes.