The benefit to GDP could be almost $9 trillion, with deficit decreases of nearly $1 trillion and federal revenues up $1.2 trillion. (Pretty soon you’re talking about real money.)  

Chris Matthews of MarketWatch points out that estimated federal spending would increase by only $300 billion, meaning a savings for taxpayers — at least on the federal level. 

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has connected labor-shortage relief with immigration, as Brown notes. "We've seen labor force supply come up quite a bit through immigration and through recovering participation," Powell said. "That's ongoing, mostly now through the immigration channel." 

Separately, in an interview with Market Place Morning Report’s Sabri Ben-Achour produced by Alex Schroeder, Penn professor Zeke Hernandez delves into the National Origins Act of 1924 and its long-term negative economic impact. 

The immigration quotas applied a century ago have been updated only three times, and Hernandez said the main challenge is that they don’t respond to workforce demand. "The way we manage quotas in this country is really damaging," he said. "Just because we don’t update them enough. And so at a minimum, we have to let the system be more flexible."  

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]. 

POLICY’S RIPPLES — Last week’s executive actions on immigration show a change from "enforcement-heavy rhetoric," reports Rafael Bernal of The Hill. The measures could affect the public immigration debate amid an election year, Bernal notes. Gromer Jeffers Jr. of The Dallas Morning News analyzes the recent policy changes, the concerns of advocates around polarization toward immigration and inaction from Congress. And Will Weissert and Jonathan J. Cooper of the Associated Press tackle different aspects of the new policies that could reshape public opinion. 

DILLEY CLOSING — A South Texas migrant detention center that is holding more detainees than any other nationwide is shutting down to save costs, reports Sandra Sanchez of Border Report. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that the shutdown of the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley will enable a redistribution of funding to increase overall detention bed capacity.   

WORKERS’ RIGHTS — Undocumented immigrants who work without authorization in the United States are often forced to take more dangerous jobs. With no official record or process for their work, it is much harder to get assistance when injured on the job, reports Nell Salzman of The Chicago Tribune.  

HUMANE RESPONSE — Local communities are welcoming new arrivals, but Congress needs to act on immigration reforms, faith leader Cindy M. Wu writes in the Houston Chronicle. Wu highlights a survey this year showing that evangelicals want reforms. "Our nation has prided itself on being a ‘city on a hill,’ a beacon-of-light nation built by the immigrants we welcomed," she writes. Even as migration numbers have increased, "a great nation can respond humanely." Separately, read Jennie’s reflection on World Refugee Day.  

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

P.S. Throwback: Our Digital team put together a playlist with music that was on the radio in 2001, when the Dream Act was first introduced. Feeling old? Dreamers have been waiting too long.