Welcome to an abbreviated Thursday edition of The Forum Daily while much of the team attends a communications conference. I’m Dan Gordon, the Forum’s strategic communications VP. 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].

Here’s some of what we’re reading today:

A new study from the National Foundation for American Policy shows that after 2052, the U.S. labor force will grow only through immigration, reports Stuart Anderson for Forbes.

Tufts University global migration expert Karen Jacobsen explains Temporary Protected Status and humanitarian parole — which she sees as "legal and carefully considered ways to support people from countries experiencing wrenching conflict, disorder and disaster who are seeking safety in the U.S." — in The Conversation.

Mass deportation would separate families and hurt Idaho’s economy, Jesse Robison writes in an Idaho State Journal op-ed.

Fiona Harrigan of Reason offers some answers to the question her headline asks: "How did immigration politics get so toxic?"

In The Guardian, Oliver Laughland looks at how this toxicity is affecting Arizona.

And some other headlines we found to be worth clicking:

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