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THE FORUM DAILY
Law enforcement officials continue to share unease over state immigration laws, reports Marty Schladen of the Ohio Capital Journal.
"We just don’t have the time to do that and we don’t have the resources to do that," Marshalltown, Iowa, Police Chief Michael Tupper said recently during the Forum’s Leading the Way convening. About Iowa’s SF 2340, Tupper said, "We all have concerns about just what this legislation will do and the unfunded mandates it will place on local governments."
A bill in North Carolina is raising concerns about the implications of requiring sheriffs to work with ICE, Ned Barnett writes in his News & Observer column.
"Those who commit crimes — whether citizens or not — should be prosecuted with due process. But intimidating whole communities by making undocumented immigrants who are arrested disappear from the U.S. creates more problems than it solves," writes Barnett.
Law enforcement leaders in Massachusetts also are troubled, Jim Jordan, retired director of strategic planning at the Boston Police Department, writes in the CommonWealth Beacon.
Large-scale deportations would "compromise public safety and create a crisis of legitimacy for many municipal police departments in [Massachusetts] and across the U.S.," Jordan writes.
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, Clara Villatoro and Becka Wall. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected].
INTEGRATING — In Aurora, Colorado, 31 migrants graduated from the African Leadership Group's English as a Second Language program this weekend, reports Jasmine Arenas of CBS News Colorado. The 12-week program gave graduates tools not only in language but also American culture, preparing them to integrate better. "I don't want to cause trouble. I'm here for work and family," said graduate Macodou Diouf, originally from Senegal.
THE COSTS — Deportations would hurt rural South Carolina, reports Macon Atkinson of The Post and Courier. Our mobilizer Patrick Taylor gets the last word: "Obviously, our safety and security are crucial, and immigration enforcement, including some deportations, is necessary," Taylor said. "It only becomes a problem if we start targeting these community members who are staying out of trouble, people who have, in many cases, U.S. citizen family members. And I think that's the real fear right now." Elsewhere:
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Leaders in other industries, including construction, also are worried about their workforces. (Julian Aguilar, NPR)
COURTS — Experts say mass deportation only would exacerbate backlogs in immigration courts, which already have more than 3.7 million pending cases, reports Russell Contreras of Axios. Even at the record rate at which immigration cases were closed in fiscal year 2024, just the current pending cases would take until 2028 to clear, according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University.
SEASON OF GIVING — A Western New York community is helping immigrants prepare for winter, reports Viktoria Hallikaar of Spectrum News 1. Some businesses and organizations are providing warm clothes, while others are helping with translation, utility assistance and other services. "We're going to make sure ... that people are taken care of, that they're warm, that they're healthy, so they can really know that Buffalo is truly their city," said state Assemblymember Jon Rivera (D).
P.S. San Fransisco-born poet Genny Lim became the city’s first Chinese American poet laureate in September, reports Mariella Radaelli of China Daily. To counter prejudice, "I had to resurrect my culture and language in a dignified, celebratory way, and with pride," Lim says.
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