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THE FORUM DAILY
Last night, Donald J. Trump once again became president-elect, the Associated Press reports.
We’ll have more from Jennie later this morning, but for starters we want to acknowledge the deep anxiety many immigrants and their loved ones are feeling. Also: It remains true that across the country, immigrants are working alongside native-born Americans, contributing to our churches, schools, communities and economy.
Trump plans to use resources across the United States government to deport millions of immigrants, Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke of Reuters summarize.
Tom Homan, a former acting director of ICE who is expected to rejoin the administration, says mass deportation plans would "hinge on potential officers and detention space."
According to the American Immigration Council, such an effort would cost around $968 billion and take at least 10 years. [See also our own resource on the costs — fiscal and otherwise.] Economists continue to warn that such a measure would have deeply negative effects on the U.S. economy, reports Mark Niquette of Bloomberg.
Other advocacy groups are prepared to go to court if the Trump administration crosses legal boundaries, Hesson and Cooke note.
Separately, Arizona voters approved Proposition 314, a measure that would make it a state crime to cross into Arizona without authorization, reports Gloria Rebecca Gomez of the Arizona Mirror.
The law will not go into effect immediately, and some border sheriffs warn that there is no comprehensive way to enforce such a measure, Ben Giles of NPR reports. Before the vote, businesses expressed concern over how Prop. 314 could exacerbate already bad worker shortages, reports Emily Wilkins of CNBC.
Welcome to Wednesday’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, Clara Villatoro and Becka Wall. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected].
ECONOMIC GOOD — Economists find that immigration often creates work for native-born Americans, Jerusalem Demsas and Rogé Karma of The Atlantic discuss in the latest episode of "Good on Paper." Separately, recent research underscores that the American-born children of immigrants have a large impact "in offsetting the declines in U.S. workers brought about by aging and lower fertility rates," Jeanne Batalova, Michael Fix and Julia Gelatt of the Migration Policy Institute write.
Here’s more recent coverage of the economic impacts of immigration:
BACKLOGS — Archbishop Jerome Listecki and other faith leaders are urging the federal government to change a new work visa policy that affects certain foreign-born members of the clergy, reports Sophie Carson of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Many now are forced to return to their home countries with lengthened reapplication times, exacerbating church staffing shortages. "We urgently seek your help ... not only for the sake of religious workers and their employers, but for the many American communities that rely upon them," Listecki and other Wisconsin diocese leaders wrote to members of Congress.
DANGERS — Mexico’s National Guard fatally shot two Colombian migrants and wounded four others in a "confrontation" near the U.S. border, the Associated Press reports. Elsewhere, despite worsening humanitarian conditions and gang violence, the U.S. continues to deport migrants to Haiti, report Jacquelien Charles and Syra Ortiz Blanes of the Miami Herald.
SOME GOOD NEWS — Former Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient Cindy Nava won a seat in the New Mexico Legislature and will represent part of the Albuquerque area, reports Taylor Velasquez of KUNM. Nava was 7 when her parents brought her to the United States and will be one of the first DACA recipients to hold an elected office.
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