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THE FORUM DAILY

Customs and Border Protection data

for July were released yesterday and show a new annual high, Santiago
Pérez and Michelle Hackman of The Wall Street Journal

report. This fiscal year to date, CBP has made 1.82 million arrests,
compared with 1.66 million in the previous fiscal year. 

Pérez and Hackman rightly point out some key factors behind the
numbers: the quicker rebound of the economy in the U.S. than in Latin
American countries, smugglers' efforts, and inflated numbers caused by
the use of Title 42, "a U.S. policy meant to deter migration but which
appears to have backfired." 

Repeat attempts to cross are not penalized under Title 42. As our policy
expert Danilo Zak points out
,
July's rate of repeat crossers was 22%. And migration overall has
declined for two consecutive months, reflecting typical seasonal
patterns. 

Separately, at least 187 Cuban migrants fleeing political persecution
and poverty were detained by the Border Patrol in the Florida Keys
last weekend, report David Goodhue and Omar Rodríguez Ortiz of the
Miami Herald
. 

Welcome to Tuesday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan
Gordon, the Forum's strategic communications VP. If you have a story
to share from your own community, please send it to me at
[email protected] . 

**AFGHAN ALLIES** - The hurdles to establishing lives in the U.S. are
greater for our Afghan allies than for Ukrainians, writes retired Lt.
Col. Margaret D. Stock in an op-ed for The Hill. Helping more of our
Afghan allies reach the U.S., and offering certainty to those already
here, "is a matter of national security," Stock writes. "[I]n future
conflicts, why would anyone risk their lives by serving alongside our
soldiers or providing critical translation services if the U.S. can't
keep our promises to them when we depart? ... What was true a year ago,
as the U.S. withdrew, remains true now: We must not turn our backs on
our Afghan allies." Passing the recently-introduced bipartisan Afghan
Adjustment Act could be a solution, Forum Senior Fellow Linda Chavez
writes for The xxxxxx. Evangelical leaders and national security
experts also support congressional action, as Jeff Brumley reports in
Baptist News Global. (And read the Forum's statement here.) 

Locally: 

* Thanks to Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas, Afghan journalist
Qasim Rahimi was able to resettle in the U.S. One year after Kabul's
fall, he recounts his harrowing escape and more: "Afghanistan lost
everything: human rights, women's rights, civil liberties, the national
army, the national police. But the future can still be ours ..." (KCUR
) 

* Spearheaded by former refugee Halima Kazem-Stojanovic, the Afghan
Visiting Scholars program at San José State University has become a
critical haven for Afghan scholars fleeing the Taliban. (Rachael Myrow,
KQED
) 

* Five members of Afghanistan's Art Lords, an artist's collective,
are creating temporary tape art murals in Brattleboro, Vermont, after
the Taliban painted over the group's 2,000-plus murals in Afghanistan.
(Bob Audette, Brattleboro Reformer
) 

'THE TIME TO ACT IS N

**OW'** - Carlos has lived nearly his entire life in the U.S. but
is unable to apply for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
due to a legal stay on all first-time applicants, report Omar Ornelas,
Hank Farr, and Josh Morgan for USA Today
.
His older brothers are DACA recipients. "I basically feel like the black
sheep when it comes to ... the work side ... [My brothers] have a
better work environment and better work opportunities than I do," Carlos
said. As Samuel Zelaya Rivas, a former DACA recipient, writes in a
separate piece for the Boston Herald
,
"Policymakers need more exposure to the significant impact it creates
when immigration status is clear and how hard it is to obtain ...
Congress has the ability to positively impact many lives by passing a
solution such as the Dream Act, to include a pathway to permanent
residency and eventually citizenship. The time to act is now." 

IMMIGRANT NURSES - We need more nurses, writes Julie Collins, program
director at the Department of Cardiopulmonary Sciences at Rush
University, in an op-ed for The Chicago Sun-Times
.
The shortage is "already dire," she writes: "Nationwide, there will
be 194,500 open positions
 for
registered nurses each year, and the demand for nurses is expected to
rise to 3.3 million overall in the next seven years." Collins offers
solutions that Congress and individual states can implement to bring
more nurses into the health care system, including helping immigrant
nurses relocate, making more visas available, and moving already
introduced bills forward. 

A TASTE OF HOME - Many Guatemalans in the U.S. rely on small-scale
delivery services for authentic food from their home country, reports
Joel Millman for Bloomberg
.
Family members send traditional Guatemalan products to loved ones abroad
by dropping packages at shipment centers. Companies then fly them to
cities with large Guatemalan populations for distribution. "This
nostalgic trade is a way to nurture your identity," said Manuel Orozco,
an analyst at the Inter-American Dialogue. "What's happening with
Guatemalans shows just how spread out they are: not just major cities,
but suburbs and rural areas, too." 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan  

 

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