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THE FORUM DAILY

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday
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with 10.7 million job openings. There were only 6.1 million hires for
the month.  

I was not a math major, but that seems like a pretty huge gap. 

To address labor shortages - and supply-chain issues over the long
term - we need immigrations reforms, Bloomberg
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columnist Thomas Black writes: "Demographics show that improving our
home-grown workforce won't be enough. ... The need of the hour is for
politicians on both sides of the aisle to step back from the ledge of
their parties' extremes and cut a deal on immigration that allows for
an orderly, legal inflow of workers." 

We agree
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And let's make sure we're making it possible for immigrants already
here and working legally to reach their full potential
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Lower birthrates and an aging population are among a myriad of factors
that have exacerbated these workforce challenges, Richard Stradling of
The News & Observer
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points out. Also on the list are an increasing number of young people
continuing their education and pushing back their entry into the
workforce, and, yes, low immigration rates. 

I can't think of a better time to solidify the workforce contributions
of people whose work authorization is temporary and/or tenuous,
including immigrant farmworkers and recipients of Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status. While we're at it,
let's address challenges at the border, including with better legal
immigration channels. Americans want
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these changes - this year
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Apologies to David Tobenkin
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misspelling his name in Friday's edition, and 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]
<mailto:[email protected]>. 

CLINICA HOPE - The nonprofit Hope Border Institute
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medical clinic in partnership with the Mexican government and migrant
shelter "Leona Vicario" in Juárez, John Lavenburg reports for Crux
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At Clinica Hope, volunteer doctors and medical professionals from El
Paso will help migrants in need. "This new program represents our
commitment to address the recent increase in arrivals to the border,
including Venezuelans, and to show that as one binational community, we
can respond with humanity and compassion," said Dylan Corbett, the
organization's executive director. See his moving Twitter thread
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on clinic's launch, including the participation of our board member
Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso. 

WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY - With midterm elections around the corner, the
ensuing lame-duck session may be Congress's best opportunity in at
least the near future to provide Dreamers with permanent protections,
writes Bloomberg
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editorial board. "Years of congressional inaction have left these
migrants subject to capricious court rulings that threaten to force some
of them to leave the only country they've known - which is why
President Joe Biden needs to press lawmakers to make a deal to protect
the Dreamers now," they write. The board suggests that adding border
reforms could get a solution across the finish line in the Senate. Stay
tuned for more in coming weeks on the push for reforms. 

MISINFORMATION - New University of Texas research
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reveals how WhatsApp and WeChat are being used to target Asian American
communities in Texas with political misinformation as the midterms
approach, report Elizabeth Trovall and Yilun Cheng of the Houston
Chronicle
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"We know that diaspora communities are a prime target for bad actors,"
researcher Katlyn Glover said. Lin Chen, a program manager at the
Chinese Community Center in Houston, added that some immigrants in her
community "don't know English well, and most of their social circles
are limited to other Chinese immigrants. They can only get information
from WeChat articles or word of mouth, and that's when inaccurate
information comes into play."  

THIS YEAR'S VOTE - A new poll
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indicates that 73% of voters in five states with close Senate races
support giving undocumented immigrants living in the country an
opportunity to earn lawful status, reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS
News
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Also in the survey of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin voters, 74% said they will vote for a candidate who offers
Dreamers a path to citizenship. Separately, Charles Lane, Linda Chavez
and host Mona Charen discussed the diversity among Hispanic voters on
last week's "Beg to Differ" podcast from The xxxxxx
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lesson we should all take from this is don't overgeneralize," Lane
said.   

**WELCOME AND SUPPORT** - Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) has
asked the federal government to provide aid amid an increase in asylum
seekers arriving to the state, reports Lisa Kashinsky of POLITICO
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"Massachusetts is proud to welcome individuals and families seeking
asylum and refuge and is dedicated to helping families live with
dignity, but additional federal support is required," he wrote
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Baker also called on the Department of Homeland Security and United
States Citizenship and Immigration Services to expedite and streamline
work authorizations for eligible new arrivals, among other requests. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

P.S. In August, poet Christopher Soto, co-founder of the Undocupoets
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and Writers for Migrant Justice, published a collection of poetry called
Diaries of a Terrorist
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in his family's native country of El Salvador. In an Atlantic Magazine
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interview with Nicole Chung, Soto sits down to discuss his work,
experience, border narratives and literary traditions.

 

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