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THE FORUM DAILY

Arizona's Proposition 308 would permit undocumented high school
graduates there to pay in-state college tuition. The vote on the measure
remains too close too call, reports Gloria Rebecca Gomez of the Arizona
Mirror
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More than 600,000 ballots across the state had yet to be counted as of
yesterday evening.

"I am optimistic that the yes vote will lead," said retired Republican
state Sen. Bob Worsley, who co-chaired the Yes on 308 campaign. "In the
end, Prop. 308 will prevail, providing much-needed relief to Arizona
students and strengthening our economy."     

The measure has bipartisan support among Arizona lawmakers. It would
allow more than 3,600 undocumented students
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graduate from the state each year to be eligible for state-funded
financial aid as well.  

Some of Tuesday's results are final, and they include some good news.
Here in Massachusetts, voters affirmed a recently passed law that allows
undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses - and thus requires
that they be insured. "Supporters of the law argued roads are safer for
everybody when more drivers are properly educated and fully insured,"
Walter Wuthmann reports for WBUR
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"They pointed to data that show hit-and-run crashes fell in
California and Connecticut after lawmakers passed similar measures." 

More broadly, Addie Offereins of WORLD Magazine
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the midterm results mean for border states and potential border and
immigration reforms, including for farmers, farmworkers and Dreamers.
She notes recent Lifeway Research polling
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showing 71% support among evangelicals for border and immigration
solutions. (Read on for more about that support.)  

Welcome to Thursday'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]>.   

**SECURITY AND COMPASSION** - A vast majority of Texas evangelicals
want to balance security and compassion when it comes to immigration and
border reforms, Kathryn Freeman, Calla Parker and Garrett Pearson write
in an op-ed for The Houston Chronicle
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The writers, who work for evangelical resettlement agency World Relief
in Texas, cite the aforementioned Lifeway polling
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Evangelicals "do not want open borders or amnesty for those who have
violated the law, which would be inconsistent with biblical teachings
that compel us to respect governing authorities," they write, "but they
also recognize legal immigration as a blessing to the country and want
to ensure that our national policies avoid separating families." The
writers note that Congress has bipartisan bills to use as starting
points, including the Dream Act, Bipartisan Border Solutions Act and
Farm Workforce Modernization Act. 

**EUROPEAN MIGRATION** - After stalling for weeks, Italian officials
recently allowed migrants on two humanitarian rescue ships to safely
come to port, report Colleen Barry and Nicole Winfield of the
Associated Press
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The country remained silent about a third ship carrying 234 rescued
migrants, which appealed to France: "We are facing very severe
consequences, including risks of loss of lives," said Xavier Lauth of
European aid group SOS Mediteranee. "Physical and psychological
well-being of survivors and crew have been exhausted by over two weeks
of blockage at sea. It is now a humanitarian emergency." To the
northeast, Poland's Border Guard rescued 10 migrants from a swamp
that borders Belarus on Tuesday amid a recent increase of migration
there, Reuters
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reports. The border was the site of a humanitarian crisis last year.  

**BORDER NARRATIVES** - Ernesto Castañeda of American University
analyzes how border encounter data can lead to misleading narratives.
"These numbers represent encounters, not the number of individuals who
have come across the border," Castañeda writes in The Conversation
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"It's a misleading and inaccurate way of describing the number of
people coming into the U.S." Castañeda explains that when an
individual migrant repeatedly attempts to enter, each attempt is
counted. In addition, he writes, the number includes people allowed to
remain in the country while an application for asylum or a humanitarian
visa is pending. Our policy expert Danilo Zak offers more on border
encounters - and demographics - in this recent explainer
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**'CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA'** - Known historically for its
early-childhood development and immigration service across Yuma County,
Arizona, Chicanos Por La Causa <[link removed]>'s new San Luis
office will open today, reports José Ignacio Castañeda Perez of the
Arizona Republic
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intention and effort is to really get closer to new communities that are
coming in from the border and just offer and expand our menu of services
in this new location," said Erin Garcia, the organization's vice
president of social services and education. The nonprofit's new
office will also provide counselors accredited by the U.S. Department
of Justice to help with DACA and permanent residency renewals.  

**CULINARY RICHNESS** - Mando Rayo, "taco journalist" (taco
journalist!) and host of the critically acclaimed podcast "Tacos of
Texas," tells David Brown of the Texas Standard
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that his goal is to understand immigrant communities through their
culinary richness. "It's [about] the people in the back of the
kitchens, whether it's a Mexican restaurant or other. They're the
foundation. They're the ones that are feeding us," Rayo says in an
audio interview transcribed by Kristen Cabrera. " ... [W]hen we think of
the fresh foods - the fresh vegetables and fruit that we have for our
dishes and our meals - we often forget who's picking, who's
cultivating that food in hot weather, extreme weather, harsh working
conditions. It's migrant farmworkers."  

Thanks for reading,  

Dan   

 

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