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**THE FORUM DAILY**Over the past two years, Venezuelan families have made their way to the United States in large numbers. For many, it is difficult to find the safety and security they sought, reports Bianca V??zquez Toness of the Associated Press [link removed].????

Take Ivanni Herrera, who was eight months pregnant last November when she, her husband and their 4-year-old son were forced to sleep on the street in Aurora, Colorado, after they were forced out of a shelter.????

When Herrera had to be treated for an infection, doctors urged her to stay in the hospital, horrified that a pregnant woman would sleep outdoors in 32-degree temperatures. She refused: "How could I sleep in a warm place when my son is cold on the street?"??

School enrollments, and teachers who work hard to welcome, provide relief for some. Zulynel Ferrer, an asylum seeker whose young daughter is now in second grade at a school in San Diego County, says it is "the first sign for many of these parents that they had achieved some sense of refuge, stability and consistency for their children," report Kristen Taketa and Alexandra Mendoza of The San Diego Union-Tribune. [link removed]??

"I feel like she finally started living her childhood," said Ferrer.??

Fresno County teacher Efra??n Tovar's support goes beyond his own newcomer students, reports Charley Locke of Alta Journal [link removed], which covers California and the West. He also formed a now expanding network of educators who are supporting one another as they address new arrivals' needs.??

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, 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].??

**RESETTLEMENT** - According to the latest report [link removed], the U.S. resettled 9,520 refugees in August, up from 6,457 refugees in July and the second highest monthly arrival number this fiscal year, our colleague Dan Kosten points out. In Minnesota, Somali residents, many of whom were refugees, are fighting back against negative rhetoric, reports Riley Beggin of USA Today [link removed]. About 44,000 Minnesota residents were born in Somalia and another 29,000 are first-generation Somali Americans, Beggin notes.????

**TRUMP'S WORDS** - Speaking of harmful rhetoric, former President Trump said at a campaign rally in Wisconsin that the immigrants he plans to deport would experience a "bloody story," reports Adeola Adeosun of Newsweek [link removed]. Trump was referencing his plans for mass deportations if elected, and his words reflect his intensifying rhetoric on immigration, Adeosun notes.??????

**FROM AGENT TO SHELTER LEADER** - After a successful 26-year career as a Border Patrol agent, Michael DeBruhl now directs the shelter at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in downtown El Paso, Texas, Lauren Villagran of USA Today [link removed] reports. "I am in a unique position. I can add some fidelity to this discussion we're having - or not having - about immigration policy," DeBruhl said. He's really good at it, as some of us have been fortunate to witness during border immersion experiences.????

**STAY COOL** - Sisters with Border Compassion, a southern California nonprofit, provided plastic pools and popsicles to help children at the U.S.-Mexico border stay cool amid temperatures exceeding 115 degrees, Rhina Guidos writes in Global Sisters Report [link removed]. The nonprofit raised about $15,000 for its hot weather fund.??

Thanks for reading,????

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