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THE FORUM DAILY

We need immigration solutions to fight inflation, bolster our economy
and compete in the world. Plain and simple. 

But you don't have to take our word for it.  

A long line of research suggests that increasing immigration can help
stave off inflation, stabilize the labor market and perhaps fight off a
recession, report Ben Winck and Jason Lalljee of Insider
.
"Increased immigration ... provides a rare chance to rebalance the labor
market and drag inflation lower without driving millions of Americans
out of work," they conclude. Separately, researchers at Brookings
highlight

how the immigrant workforce benefits U.S. workers. 

Zoom in on specific sectors: The aging services industry is struggling
to fill 11 million job openings, reports Kimberly Bonvissuto of
McKnights Senior Living
.
In construction, Sebastian Obando of Construction Dive

reports that there are currently 407,000 unfilled jobs
,
with experts banking on immigration to help fill them.  

On the global competition side, a new report
from the
National Academies urges the U.S. to better compete with China and
other countries, per Stuart Anderson of Forbes
.
The report recommends increasing immigration as well as attracting and
retaining more foreign-born talent. "Internationally, the United States
needs to find new and better ways to encourage scientists, engineers,
and their families to come to this country to work and live,"
the researchers recommend in part. Our Council on National Security and
Immigration leaders have sounded similar themes
.
 

All of this comes as inflation and immigration are top of mind for
American voters, as Julia Manchester reports in The Hill
.
So, let's find solutions that restore order at the border and address
inflation and labor fluctuations, not to mention protect Dreamers and
help farmers. Americans support such reforms
.  

A quick piece of good news: On Monday, President Biden signed the
bipartisan Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act
.
The law is a first step toward addressing employment barriers for
immigrants. For more, see our recent press statement
. 

Welcome to Wednesday'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] .  

NEW PAROLE PROGRAM - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has
launched a new parole program
 for
Venezuelan asylum seekers, as Al Jazeera

reports. However, immigrant advocates continue to raise concerns about
the Biden administration's decision to simultaneously expand the use
of Title 42 to rapidly expel Venezuelan asylum seekers at
the U.S.-Mexico border, report Rebecca Beitsch and Rafael Bernal of The
Hill
.
In Catholic News Service
,
Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, also a Forum board member, says,
"Now we must all work harder, especially the faith community, to build a
culture of hospitality that respects the dignity of those who migrate,
and to continue to press lawmakers and the Biden administration to
establish a safe, humane, functioning and rights-respecting system to
ensure protection to those in need." 

**MORE SOLUTIONS** - Speaking of Catholic bishops, their push
continues for government leaders to set partisanship aside and work
together to find immigration solutions, reports John Lavenburg of Crux
.
"We simply cannot allow partisan divisions to continue to impede the
needed interventions of government," Auxiliary Bishop Mario Dorsonville
of Washington, D.C., said in a statement yesterday
. "...
National, state, and local governments must work collaboratively with
one another and civil society to devise a collective and human response
to the unavoidable reality of migration, seeking to embrace the
potential it offers. In this context, strong federal leadership is
especially important."  

PROTECTIONS FOR DREAMERS

** **- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients
continue to live in uncertainty as their protections could be ended by
a court decision soon
.
In an op-ed for The Press Herald
,
Carroll Conley, executive director of the Christian Civic League of
Maine, calls on his state's legislators in Congress to protect
Dreamers: "It's a biblical principle that we ought not hold children
responsible for their parents' decisions. ... [Congress] should act
immediately to solve multiple crises - and I'm praying that
Maine's U.S. senators will once again lead the way." Separately,
some "documented Dreamers" are
already facing self-deportation while waiting for a solution from
Congress, Mollie Swayne reports in KCRG
.
An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) could
change the future of thousands of documented dreamers - and we'd
note that national security leaders support it
.
 

**LAWSUIT AGAINST ICE **- Five nonprofit legal services organizations
are suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for allegedly
preventing them from adequately communicating with their clients,
reports Greg LaRose of the Louisiana Illuminator
.
The complaint describes limited access to private spaces for
confidential conversations, expensive phone access, and difficult
scheduling requirements among the obstacles lawyers face. "The right to
a lawyer should be the minimum level of fairness that someone gets when
the government puts them in jail," said Homero López Jr., legal
director of Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy (ISLA).  

Thanks for reading, 

Dan  

 

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