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**THE FORUM DAILY**
Deep breath, all - it'll be an interesting week. Please find what grounds you. I, for one, am planning to spend as much time outside as possible.??
In terms of the candidates' real stances on the border, immigration and a productive conversation about both, we've put what we know in our Harris-Trump [link removed] and Vance-Walz [link removed] comparisons.??
Rhetoric aside, unauthorized southern border crossings are at a four-year low, reports Tyche Hendricks of KQED [link removed].????
The San Diego-Tijuana region saw a decrease of 50% in unlawful entries just in August and September, and "[n]ationwide numbers have declined as well," said Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesman Michael Scappechio.????
The trend appeared to continue in October, reports Ted Hesson of Reuters [link removed]. CBP credits Mexico's stronger enforcement, as well as policy and messaging changes from the U.S. government.??
Nativist rhetoric is causing immigrants anxiety over their safety and their future in the U.S., Josh Marvine of KCUR [link removed] and, separately, Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio of the Boston Globe [link removed] report. And immigrant advocates, "villainized by one candidate and feeling spurned by another," are preparing for an uncertain future, reports Raheem Hosseini of the San Francisco Chronicle [link removed].????
"Only one side is investing in creating a narrative around what our immigration system is and what it should be, so it's no wonder that Americans ... have been swayed by these hundreds of millions of dollars that have been spent telling them they should be afraid," said Anu Joshi of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York.????
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, 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
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**THRIVING** - In Dalton, Georgia, the children of immigrants are adding to their parents' legacy as contributors to the economic future of the town, reports Joel Millman of Bloomberg [link removed]. Meanwhile, the Dayton, Ohio, public schools have set up a special space for incoming immigrant children who may not know English, reports Eileen McClory of the Dayton Daily News [link removed]. It's "making a big difference in the lives of students and families," Superintendent David Lawrence said.??
**COSTS** - Mass deportation would increase the cost of groceries (Deena Shanker, Bloomberg [link removed]). It would hurt taxpayers and big business (Nick Penzenstadler and Lauren Villagran, USA Today [link removed]), small businesses (Marlese Lessing and Rob Watts, Bankrate [link removed]), and international students and those with immigration applications already being processed (Stuart Anderson, Forbes [link removed]). Alarm bells are going off for families affected by family separation during Trump's first administration (Myah Ward, Politico [link removed]). State and local law enforcement would have to cooperate for mass deportation to be successful, reports Amanda Hern??ndez of Stateline [link removed] - which we've noted [link removed] would make all of us less safe.??
**CITIZENSHIP LIMBO** - The Biden administration's "Keeping Families Together" program would allow green card-eligible spouses of U.S. citizens to proceed without risking years of separation (see our explainer [link removed]). But with the program held up in court, families who would be eligible are afraid to apply, reports Anna-Catherine Brigida of the Houston Landing [link removed].??
**SMUGGLING** - Smugglers continue to make millions of dollars off desperate migrants as the United States' tools to catch and prosecute such criminals are lacking, reports Mary Beth Sheridan of The Washington Post [link removed]. "There's a great deal of effort that goes into mapping how drug trafficking works" in Latin America, said Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute. "That doesn't happen with migrant smuggling."??
**FAITH, BUSINESS VOICES** - False narratives around immigrants are the real crisis, Tina Jensen Augustine of Salt Lake City, a member of Mormon Women for Ethical Government, writes in the Deseret News [link removed]. In the Salt Lake Tribune [link removed], Jonathan Campbell, co-CEO of Utah-based equipment distribution business Campbell Companies, underscores immigrants' essential role in construction and related industries. Elsewhere:??
* North Dakota evangelical Dave Jenkins issues "a call for compassionate immigration reform" in the North Dakota Monitor [link removed].??
* In the Kansas City Star [link removed], Church of the Resurrection daily devotional contributor Dawn North shares the realities she witnessed during a border immersion experience.??
* Compassion isn't limited, author and church ESL volunteer Jen Pollock Michel writes in the Cincinnati Enquirer [link removed]: "Distributed one to another, it might just multiply like fishes and loaves."??
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