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THE FORUM DAILY

It is a long journey from Venezuela. They walked through the dangerous
Darién Gap in Panama, then crossed at least five other countries to
finally arrive at the Mexico-U.S. border. Now many migrants are seeking
a light of hope while building a new life, even if from a shelter.  

In New York City, a group of migrants who were bused from Texas found
inspiration in sports, reports Raúl Vilchis of The New York Times
<[link removed]>.
"If he can make it here, so can I," migrant Samuel Liendo, 22, said
while watching Yankees rookie and Venezuela native Oswaldo Cabrera,
who's only a year older.  

In Chicago, different church shelters have offered a new beginning to
hundreds of Venezuelans since their arrival from Texas, reports Laura
Rodríguez Presa of the Chicago Tribune
<[link removed]>.  

"There's so much food, I still can't believe it, I may even get a
stomach ache," Marianella Hernandez said after eating dinner at the
Adalberto Memorial United Methodist Church. Hernandez and her husband
decided to migrate after years of struggles to bring food to the table
under Nicolás Maduro's regime in Venezuela, despite their hard
work. 

"[Migrants] are creating a new home, we give God thanks for their new
home," said Pastor Jacobita Cortes. 

But Liendo and Hernandez were lucky to arrive before the Biden
administration started expelling their countryfolk arriving at the
border as a rule by expanding Title 42
<[link removed]>.  

Shelters on the Mexico side of the border are seeing more migrants since
the measures took effect a week ago - more than the number of beds
available, reports Manuel Rapalo of Al Jazeera
<[link removed]>.
"People aren't given their due process; they're simply detained and
left on the border with Mexico without a chance to request asylum," said
Eunice Rendon of Agenda Migrante, a nonprofit in Mexico. 

Almost two dozen lawmakers have sent a letter to President Biden asking
him to reconsider the measure, saying the protocol violates U.S. and
international asylum law, Alisa Reznick of KJZZ
<[link removed]>
reports.  

I keep coming back to Marianella Hernandez's words: "I didn't want
to come, I was scared to cross that jungle, I was worried for my
grandchildren, but we really had no other option. People don't
understand that." 

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] <mailto:[email protected]>.  

**WESTERN HEMISPHERE REFUGEES** - Officials along the U.S.-Mexico
border processed a total of 572,500 of Cubans, Venezuelans and
Nicaraguans during past fiscal year, Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports for
CBS News
<[link removed]>.
These three groups together have surpassed the number of migrants from
the northern triangle of Central America. The shift has challenged the
administration: These countries' authoritarian regimes make
deportation more difficult. Separately, Claudia Torrens and Vanessa A.
Alvarez of the Associated Press
<[link removed]>
have more on the Border Patrol sending Venezuelan migrants to office
addresses - not shelters - in other cities without notice, leaving
migrants stranded. 

**POTENTIAL WORKFORCE LOSS** - The end of the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program would affect not only recipients'
lives but the country's labor force and economy. The prospect is
setting off alarms among corporations, reports Andrew Kreighbaum of
Bloomberg Law
<[link removed]>.
"Taking 600,000 workers that are productively engaged in the US
workforce out of it at this point in time would be economically damaging
to say the least," said Glenn Hamer, president and CEO of the Texas
Association of Business [and a Forum board member]. Last week, the
Coalition for the American Dream, which comprises more than 500
companies, urged Congress to protect Dreamers
<[link removed]>.
"The end to this program means that an estimated 22,000 jobs would be
lost every month for two years. That is roughly 1,000 job losses per
business day at a time when the U.S. economy already faces significant
workforce shortages," the coalition wrote. 

**'A SOURCE OF HOPE'** - In an op-ed for the Catholic Star Herald
<[link removed]>,
pastor Joseph D. Wallace offers prayers and shares faith leaders'
urgency for solutions for Dreamers following an appeals court's DACA
ruling
<[link removed]>
early this month. "We lament the anxiety and turmoil this ruling is
causing in our communities ... [we are] urging our elected officials to
enact legislation, which provides a pathway to citizenship for DACA
recipients and other undocumented immigrants with deep ties to this
country," he quotes the Rev. Elizabeth Eaton, presiding bishop of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church. Wallace concludes with a prayer: "May we
greet each stranger as a neighbor and friend and be a source of hope and
comfort for Dreamers and all immigrants." 

**LATINO VOTERS** - Immigration remains a top issue among Latino
voters, with varying interests including more humane treatment of
migrants, a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented, and border
security, reports Boris Sanchez of CNN
<[link removed]>.
"Neither party is addressing [immigration] well," said Carlos Gonzalez,
an immigration attorney. "Either they talk to the right, or they talk to
the left, but they don't come (to the border) and talk to us. They
don't see what we're doing on a daily basis." Added Abraham Enriquez,
founder of Bienvenido US: "I think Latinos, we don't really care much
about what you say, it's about what you're going to do." Americans
overall want action, too: In a poll earlier this year
<[link removed]>,
79% of registered voters said they want Democrats and Republicans to
work together on reforms that address border security, citizenship for
Dreamers and a legal, reliable farm workforce. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

**P.S.** This is fascinating: Two asylum seekers arrived by boat early
this month - to Alaska, from Russia, Mark Thiessen of the Associated
Press
<[link removed]>
reports. The two Indigenous Siberians were afraid of being conscripted
to fight in Ukraine; Russia is targeting minorities for the war
effort.  

 

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