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About half of agricultural workers in the U.S. are undocumented immigrants, and Donald Trump's mass deportation plan would cause a huge problem for America's farmers, reports Alan Guebert of Farmer's Advance [link removed].??

States such as Wisconsin and California could be especially hard-hit. In the dairy industry alone, "Immigrant labor accounts for 51 percent of all dairy labor, and dairies that employ immigrant labor produce 79 percent of the U.S. milk supply," according to the National Milk Producers Federation.??

Guebert also highlights how mass deportation could lead to lost jobs for American workers.??

Beyond economic effects, mass deportation would cause chaos and terrorization, J.D. Long Garc??a writes in America Magazine [link removed]. Dylan Corbett, executive director of Hope Border Institute in El Paso, Texas, said such a plan would "mean the division of families, it would mean fear and constant anxiety for families with children. It would represent a real attack on the family and our community. It would rip us apart."??

Separately, George Mason University researcher Christine McDaniel??writes in The Hill [link removed] about how better trade policy could help address root causes of migration.??

Welcome to Thursday's edition of The Forum Daily. This month we will take a break on Fridays - we'll be back in your inbox on Monday. 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] mailto:[email protected].??

**BENEFITS** - An increase in international migration is boosting economies in California and nationwide, reports Don Lee of the Los Angeles Times [link removed]. Benefits outweigh short-term costs for the government, Lee notes. A separate report [link removed] the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy released this week shows that undocumented immigrants paid almost $100 billion in taxes in 2022, reports Nic Querolo of Bloomberg [link removed]. According to the report,??six states, including California, Texas and Florida, collected at least $1 billion apiece.????

**PROTECTION** - Undocumented immigrants who assist with government investigations of labor abuse now have up to four years of protection from deportation, reports Sarah Betancourt of WGBH [link removed]. "All workers, regardless of their immigration status, deserve protection from workplace violations and exploitation," said Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell.??

**'MORAL DUTY'** - The U.K. government has opened applications to reunite Afghan families separated during the August 2021 evacuation, Adina Campbell and Becky Morton report for the BBC [link removed]. "It is our moral duty to ensure that families who were tragically separated are reunited and are not left at the mercy of the Taliban," said Immigration and Citizenship Minister Seema Malhotra.??

This week in local welcome:??

* A partnership in Tulsa, Oklahoma, leads to new opportunities for Afghans and other newcomers. (Lauren Henry, KTUL [link removed]) ??

* A Newburyport,??Massachusetts, church's initiative to house Afghan families who have been living in the church basement could serve as a model elsewhere. (Lynn Jolicoeur, WBUR [link removed])??

* Expanding its housing of migrants, a Catholic retreat center in Queens, New York, has welcomed four Afghan women. (Paula Katinas, The Tablet [link removed])??

**FARMERS** - Immigrant farm owners looking for federal grants face language and other barriers, reports Isa Luzarraga of Iowa Public Radio [link removed]. Nonprofits such as The Heartland Regional Food Business Center are stepping up to fill gaps. "I want to follow my own path, growing food and taking care of people," said Sandro Lopes of David City, Nebraska, who came to the U.S. from Brazil in 2015.??

Thanks for reading, ??

Dan??

**P.S.** Natalie Gonnella-Platts, Director of Global Policy at the George W. Bush Institute, highlights in a blog post [link removed] that Afghan women in the Olympics and worldwide still need our support.??

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