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. "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.  

"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.  

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. "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 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].  

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. 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 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. "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. "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, pastor Joseph D. Wallace offers prayers and shares faith leaders’ urgency for solutions for Dreamers following an appeals court’s DACA ruling 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. "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, 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 reports. The two Indigenous Siberians were afraid of being conscripted to fight in Ukraine; Russia is targeting minorities for the war effort.