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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 and Vance-Walz comparisons.
Rhetoric aside, unauthorized southern border crossings are at a four-year low, reports Tyche Hendricks of KQED.
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. 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 and, separately, Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio of the Boston Globe 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.
"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 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].
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. 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. 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). It would hurt taxpayers and big business (Nick Penzenstadler and Lauren Villagran, USA Today), small businesses (Marlese Lessing and Rob Watts, Bankrate), and international students and those with immigration applications already being processed (Stuart Anderson, Forbes).
Alarm bells are going off for families affected by family separation during Trump’s first administration (Myah Ward, Politico). State and local law enforcement would have to cooperate for mass deportation to be successful, reports Amanda Hernández of Stateline — which we’ve noted 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). 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.
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. "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. In the Salt Lake Tribune, Jonathan Campbell, co-CEO of Utah-based equipment distribution business Campbell Companies, underscores immigrants’ essential role in construction and related industries. Elsewhere:
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