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THE FORUM DAILY

Our hearts go out to the families and community in Uvalde, Texas, where
an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two adults at Robb
Elementary School. 

It was the deadliest school shooting in Texas history and the deadliest
shooting since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown,
Connecticut, in December 2012. 

According to a law enforcement official, one Border Patrol agent rushed
into the school without waiting for backup, taking down the shooter, per
Acacia Coronado and Jim Vertuno of the Associated Press
. 

Uvalde, a predominantly Latino community, is home to about 16,000 people
and about 75 miles from the border with Mexico, they note.  

A "small, working-class city," where more than a quarter of city
residents are children, census data shows Uvalde is also home to "a
large Mexican American population," report Robert Gebeloff and Jacey
Fortin of The New York Times
. 

"This is just evil," Rey Chapa, an Uvalde resident told The Times
'
Josh Peck and J. David Goodman. "I'm afraid I'm going to know a lot
of these kids that were killed," adding that his nephew was in the
school at the time of the shooting but was safe. 

Welcome to Wednesday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Becka Wall,
Vice President of Digital Communications at the Forum. If you have a
story to share from your own community, please send it to me at
[email protected] .  

**MIGRANT CHILDREN** - A Los Angeles U.S. District judge is slated to
consider a proposed settlement between the Center for Human Rights and
Constitutional Law and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, revolving
around standards for safe and sanitary detention of unaccompanied
migrant children, reports Spectrum News 1
.
Per court documents obtained Monday, the 61-page agreement comes after
two years of the Center challenging the conditions in which children
were separated from their parents and held in Texas Border Patrol
facilities during the Trump era. Separately, the director of Casa del
Refugiado - El Paso's largest migrant shelter network - is
planning to end operations in July, unless the city and county can step
in, reports Julian Resendiz of Border Report
. 

HUMAN SMUGGLING - Strict U.S. immigration laws and limited pathways
for legal migration have made migrants more reliant on human smugglers,
writes Stuart Anderson, executive director of the National Foundation
for American Policy, in an op-ed for Reason Magazine
.
According to DHS data, smuggler usage rates have not only increased
steadily over the last five decades, but the percentage of migrants
turning to smugglers has also increased - "from 40 percent to 50
percent in the 1970s to 95 percent by 2006, coinciding with increased
federal spending on immigration enforcement." To truly end human
smuggling and provide migrants security, "U.S. laws and policies must
provide significantly greater avenues for individuals to live and work
legally in the U.S. and to gain access to human rights protections,"
writes Anderson. 

REFORMS - Given Florida's 2022 legislative session passing
anti-immigrant legislation blocking migrants from seeking refuge,
Congress needs to step up and pass long-lasting immigration reform,
writes our friend Ted Hutchinson, Florida State Immigration Director at
FWD.us., in an op-ed for the Orlando Sentinel
.
"Congress can enact immigration reform - it only needs the will to do
so. Withan overwhelming majority of Americans

in support of immigration reform, there is no reason for Congress to
delay sending a real legislative solution to President Biden's desk,"
he writes. "... I urge Congress, especially Sens. Rubio and Rick Scott,
to stand with the American people and commit to reforming our nation's
failed immigration system." 

S

**ISTERHOOD** - With a lack of government assistance, Members of
Sisters of Service, an organization of American female veterans, have
stepped up to support Afghan women soldiers they worked alongside to
navigate the immigration and resettlement process, reports Madeline
Lyskawa of Law360
.
"As U.S. troops started withdrawing from Afghanistan, we came together
as a loose network of U.S. women talking with these Afghan women and
deciding we need to do something - these women are going to be extreme
targets as Afghanistan falls to the Taliban," said co-founder Ellie, a
U.S. service member. "We are not legal experts, we are not immigration
experts; we are just military women that really care about our Afghan
sisters."   

More on local welcome: 

* In New York, Oswego Mayor Billy Barlow endorsed the nonprofit Oswego
Welcomes New Americans' efforts to sponsor an Afghan family of five
and help them resettle. (Xiana Fontno, Oswego County News Now
) 

* Nonprofit Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services in
Florida's Tampa Bay area has supported recently resettled Afghan
refugees with "health screenings, registering kids in school, and
helping people get ESOL classes," but like other local charities, need
more volunteers and donations to continue their efforts. (Lissette
Campos, 83 Degrees Media
) 

Thanks for reading, 

Becka  

P.S. Check out this cool story about Texas' first Japanese immigrants
who built its multimillion-dollar rice industry, per the Houston
Chronicle
's
Ryan Nickerson. 

 

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