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**THE FORUM DAILY**In the short term, government data indicate that restrictions at the border have decreased daily encounters by 25%, according to reports. But experts and advocates question the measures' long-term effectiveness and warn of the challenges that migrants are facing, reports Jasmine Garsd of NPR [link removed].??

"Every single one of those policies does push the numbers down for a few months, and then they start to recover and come right back," said Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America.??

Misinformation around the policy changes have spread through social media,??Garsd notes - another layer of risk for migrants.??

In California, Andrea Castillo of the Los Angeles Times [link removed] shares the story of Ze, a Chinese migrant who arrived in San Diego just as the new measures took effect. After a long journey from Ecuador to the U.S. border, Ze was separated from his brother and had no choice but to wait for him a couple of days??outside a transit center in California. ??

Castillo notes that migrants have arrived exhausted, confused and lacking information about the new measures.??

Separately,??in New Mexico, information from two migrants who surrendered to Border Patrol agents helped officials rescue 13 migrants in Ju??rez, Mexico, reports Julian Resendiz of Border Report [link removed].??

DHS investigators and Mexican authorities partnered to free the group of migrants, who were kept in a house where they suffered torture, extortion and sexual assault. Among the group there were two minors, Resendiz notes.??

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

**BORDER ALTERNATIVE** - Legislative solutions that can make our border more secure, efficient and humane are the answer to border challenges, Forum board members Mustafa Tameez and Glenn Hamer, both of Texas, write in an Austin American-Statesman [link removed] op-ed. They highlight the Forum's Border Security and Management Framework [link removed] as a blueprint for Congress. "Let's do right by our border communities, Border Patrol agents, migrants, our economy and the significant majority of Americans who want lasting solutions," they write. ??

**CHALLENGING JOURNEYS** - Who are the people enduring long, difficult journeys in hopes of finding refuge in the U.S.? Nina Shapiro and the photo and graphics teams at The Seattle Times [link removed] introduce us to a number of them who have now settled in Seattle. Some were fleeing for their lives, others from "extreme poverty and scarcity." But the trek, especially through the Dari??n Gap jungle in Panama, was harrowing. "There are things that happened there that scar you for life," said Venezuelan migrant Sugey Del Valle.??

**TO PROTECT CHILDREN** - The Biden administration says new rules go beyond a settlement agreement when it comes to keeping children in immigration detention safe. Advocates argued otherwise in court Friday, reports Jaimie Ding??of the Associated Press [link removed]. The administration is asking the court to terminate the Flores settlement agreement for the Department of Health and Human Services, though it would still apply when children are in Border Patrol or other DHS custody. ??

**A CHURCH'S WELCOME** - The arrival of a migrant mother and daughter from Honduras in 2019 helped lead Dayspring Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, to create a full-fledged "hospitality house" for asylum seekers in 2021, as Marv Knox relates in Baptist News Global [link removed]. Members of the relatively small church had gone to Central America on mission trips, and when migration to the U.S. increased, "we realized we know these people," said Tiffani Harris, Dayspring's associate pastor for community life.??

Thanks for reading,??

Dan

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