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**THE FORUM DAILY**
Welcome to an abbreviated Friday 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 Gass?? 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:??

* Deporting millions of working migrants would worsen inflation, reports Chris Williams of Fox News' Live Now [link removed].????

* Build your knowledge with the Forum's brand new explainer on immigrants and housing [link removed] followed by Andrea Riquier's USA Today [link removed] piece about how immigrants in Dayton, Ohio, are helping the housing market and rejuvenating the local economy.??

* Also from Dayton: former Police Chief Richard Biehl shares his department's experience with having welcomed immigrant communities. Read his Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force [link removed] blog post.??

* According to a new report [link removed] from the American Immigration Council and Upwardly Global, immigrants are helping to boost economic growth in the Great Lakes Region, reports WisBusiness [link removed].????

* A new report from Open Doors and World Relief finds that the U.S. resettled more Christians escaping persecution in fiscal year 2024 than it has since 2016, reports Diana Chandler of Baptist Press [link removed].??

* Misinformation surrounding the immigrant community is rampant this election season, and NPR Here & Now's [link removed] Robin Young and Politifact's Katie Sanders home in on falsehoods in some Senate campaigns.??

* In Detroit, Matheen Syed uses his experience as an immigrant and food industry insider to help other newcomers break into the food world, reports Terrance Friday of??CBS News??Detroit [link removed].??

And some other headlines worth clicking:????

Billboards asking people to welcome, respect migrants pop up across country [link removed]??(Salvador Rivera, Border Report)??

Survey: Majorities favor path to citizenship over mass deportation [link removed] (Steven Kull and Evan Charles Lewitus, The Fulcrum)??

DHS deports Chinese migrants on charter flight [link removed] (Ashleigh Fields, The Hill)??

Family of Afghanistan refugees living in Lacey 'thriving' in school, workplace [link removed] (Drew Mikkelsen, KING5)??

Thanks for reading,????

Dan??

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