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The Biden administration appears likely to announce new measures tomorrow that would offer legal protections to undocumented immigrants??married to U.S. citizens, as Laura Barro??n-Lo??pez, Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett of PBS NewsHour [link removed] first reported.??

Biden is expected to raise the curtain on the new effort during a White House event tied to Saturday's 12th anniversary of the announcement of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), they report.??

The new measure could grant parole in place [link removed] to unauthorized immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years and are married to U.S. citizens, reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS News [link removed].??

As Miriam Jordan of The New York Times [link removed] alluded to last week, even someone married to a U.S. citizen often??faces 10 years outside the country if they first entered without authorization. ????

Montoya-Galvez reports that the Biden administration also is considering a process for Dreamers and other undocumented immigrants to have a path to temporary visas, including H-1B visas for professional workers.??

Speaking of Dreamers, Saturday's DACA anniversary was celebrated amid uncertainties and delays in renewals, report Rafael Carranza and Raphael Romero Ruiz of the Arizona Republic [link removed]. "It's our entire lives that have to be renewed," said Natchell Bello, a DACA recipient.??

The piece cites our recent??polling [link removed] in which 68% of registered voters supported Republicans and Democrats working together on legislation that would enable Dreamers to earn legal status and eventual citizenship. This??included support among Republicans by a 25-point margin.??

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

'DOCUMENTED DREAMERS' - In a letter [link removed] to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, 45 bipartisan lawmakers urge the Biden administration to offer relief to children who arrived legally under their parents' visas, then aged out, reports Andrew Kreighbaum of Bloomberg Law [link removed]. The lawmakers propose three actions. "These young people grow up in the United States, complete their education in the American school system, and graduate with degrees from American institutions," the letter says. "[T]he economic case is clear and the moral case is clear. It is common sense."??

GROWTH??-??Steady job market growth and cooling inflation can be attributed in part to increased immigration, reports Rebecca Picciotto of CNBC [link removed] May, the U.S. added 272,000 jobs, while consumer prices remained stable. Immigrants are "contributing to labor supply in places where it was most badly needed," Goldman Sachs analysts report.????

STATES' RHETORIC - Following Texas' example, Republicans in 11 other states are trying to advance enforcement measures, often incorporating "invasion" rhetoric [link removed], reports Jazmine Ulloa of The New York Times [link removed] and scholars have voiced concerns that such measures would increase racial profiling, harm state economies and perpetuate dehumanizing narratives, Ulloa notes.??With six state laws enacted or moving, court challenges center on the federal government's authority to enforce immigration law.??

NEW SKILLS??-??Seventeen Haitian immigrants have graduated from a program at the New England Culinary Arts Training school taught fully in Haitian Creole, reports Natalie La Roche Pietri of The Boston Globe [link removed].. "I feel like after the graduation, they have something in their hands to live with, and a skill to provide for their family," said Chef Michelene Desormeau, who created the program. Also in Boston, the nonprofit African Bridge Network offers educated immigrants technical and soft skills training, followed by a paid internship, reports Mimi Wishner Segel of NBC Boston [link removed].??

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