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"[I]mmigration strengthens Social Security's finances."??

That's a key takeaway from a MarketWatch [link removed] by Robert Pozen, a former president of Fidelity Investments, and Charles Blahous, a former public trustee for Social Security. In particular, undocumented immigrants pay into Social Security and are not able to claim benefits, they point out.??

Whether because of immigration or other reasons, having more workers generally puts Social Security on firmer footing, they write - and immigration has other benefits: "As wage earners and consumers, immigrants have generated demand for more jobs in various sectors and more tax revenues for the government."??

Nobel Prize winning economist David Card dives deeper into misconceptions surrounding the economy and immigration in an interview with Amanda Aronczyk on NPR's Planet Money [link removed].????

In the Upper Midwest, Steve Tobocman of Global Detroit writes in Crain's Detroit Business [link removed] that immigration must be part of the counter to population loss and aging demographics. And an acute need for seasonal farm workers has moved the Wisconsin Farm Bureau to partner with the Great Lakes Ag Labor Service to help farmers petition for visas, reports Hope Kirwan of Wisconsin Public Radio [link removed].??

"I truly believe that if we did not have the immigrant workforce that we have, whether they are on a visa or not on a visa, we could not operate as America's Dairyland," said Tina Hinchley, dairy farmer and vice president of the Wisconsin Farmers Union.??

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, Sam 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].??

**NURSES** - As the United States faces a shortage of registered nurses, immigrant workers could offer relief, write Drishti Pillai, Matthew Rae and Samantha Artiga of KFF [link removed]. However, visa restrictions make recruiting foreign-born nurses difficult. These restrictions could "exacerbate existing shortages in the nursing workforce and negatively impact the U.S. labor market and economy more broadly, particularly given the growing role of foreign-educated nurses in U.S. hospitals," they write.??

**OUR ALLIES** - Without help from the U.S., many of our allies left behind in Afghanistan have fled, Anjana Sankar writes in The Boston Globe [link removed]. Some arrive at the southern border, their circumstances "unique because their plight is the direct result of American policies," she writes. The personal stories she relates are wrenching.??

Recently in local news and welcome:??

* Mustafa, then 7, made it out of Afghanistan as the U.S. withdrew and was able to help his family get to the U.S. - but only in recent weeks, and they have yet to reunite. (Frank Morris, KCUR [link removed]) ??

* Afghanistan's first female fighter pilot is making Owensboro, Kentucky, home with help from the local Catholic church. (Elizabeth Wong Barnstead, OSV News [link removed]; first reported in The Western Kentucky Catholic [link removed])????

* After escaping the Taliban with her family and trekking from Brazil to the U.S. border, Zahra Shahnoory has graduated from a New York City high school. (Andy Weir and Erin McLaughlin, NBC News [link removed])??

**HAITI** - Expanded protections for Haitians are a positive step, and the U.S. can do more to help people escaping Haiti's violence and political crisis, Jennie writes in a Miami Herald [link removed] op-ed. Among her suggestions: pause deportations, raise or remove the cap on private sponsorships, expand virtual visa processing and better protect Haitian children. "We can show we're serious about a more humane, orderly immigration system through our response to Haiti's humanitarian crisis," she concludes.????

**AMERICA AS HOME** - Executive action to help mixed-status families remain together in the U.S. could benefit thousands of families in Utah and hundreds of thousands nationwide, Brigham Young sociology professor Jane Lilly L??pez writes in the Deseret News [link removed] Newsmax [link removed], researcher and writer Robert Zapesochny looks at immigration through an Independence Day lens. And in an Austin American-Statesman [link removed] op-ed,??Lubna Zeidan reflects more pointedly on the concept of home. ??

Thanks for reading,??

Dan??

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