First, we’ll re-up an invitation: Jennie is speaking tomorrow on a panel that will consider the question, "Should the United States expand legal immigration?" Braver Angels is hosting; register here.   

Per government sources, the Biden administration is planning to announce a regulation that would make asylum restrictions he instituted earlier this year harder to lift, reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS News.  

The restrictions announced in June limit eligibility for and access to asylum at the southern border. The proclamation stipulates that the restrictions would end if the seven-day average of daily unlawful crossings were below 1,500 and remained relatively low two weeks. The update would significantly increase the amount of time crossings needed to stay below 1,500. 

Several advocacy groups are challenging the original rule in court, reports Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times.  

Separately, the phenomenon of migrants taking charter flights to Nicaragua en route to the U.S. gets a look from Emily Green of NPR. The U.S. government says the companies running the flights are part of or working with criminal organizations. And "Nicaragua realized that [allowing flights] was a way ... [to] weaponize migration," said Manuel Orozco of Inter-American Dialogue.  

A different kind of charter flight deported migrants back to Haiti yesterday, despite continuing violence there. 

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, Soledad Gassó Parker, Camilla Luong, Ally Villarreal and Clara Villatoro. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected]. 

CORE PRINCIPLE — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) has introduced a bill that would severely narrow birthright citizenship, reports Jeremy Wynder of Spectrum News. "Birthright citizenship promotes integration, and it strengthens our nation and communities," Jennie said yesterday. "It’s one of the things that makes America exceptional: If you’re born here, you belong here." Read more in Forum Senior Fellow Linda Chavez’s Q&A. 

INVESTIGATIONS — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) continues to target immigrant-focused nonprofits in El Paso, report Alejandro Serrano and Vianna Davila of The Texas Tribune. Last month, Paxton’s office sought an investigation of the Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, and on Wednesday, the nonprofit filed a federal lawsuit to halt the investigation. "Las Americas seeks nothing more than to carry out its mission to help vulnerable immigrants in need," the organization writes. 

HEALTH CARE — In his column for Forbes, Howard Gleckman underscores the importance of foreign-born workers in our health care system. The system, which is already facing staffing shortages, would suffer significantly from former President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans, he writes. "People have passionate views on both sides of the immigration debate. But remember the cost to American patients and their families if the nation is closed to foreign-born health workers," he concludes. A new analysis suggests that Trump’s deportation plans would make inflation much worse, Matt Egan of CNN reports. 

ESCAPE — The Taliban is still going after many Afghan men trained by the U.S. and NATO, reports Monika Evstatieva of NPR. The Afghan Adjustment Act would "open up resources to help in the ongoing efforts to protect Afghans left behind," she reports. Meanwhile, resettled Afghans in San Antonio need more mental health resources to help with integration, writes Raquel Torres of the San Antonio Report. 

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Thanks for reading,  

Dan