Faith, law enforcement, business and national security leaders are on Capitol Hill today, meeting with 40 Senate offices to urge border and immigration reforms this year. (You too can participate, by email or phone.)
And this evening, the Forum and our sibling (c)4, America Is Better, will present "Keepers of the American Dream" awards to Tyson Foods; World Relief; Maria Gabriela ("Gaby") Pacheco of TheDream.US; and retired Orlando, Florida, Police
Chief Orlando Rolón.
Yesterday Tyson Foods announced an additional $1.5 million investment for legal and citizenship services for its immigrant workers, as Jacob Smith of
Our general session is tomorrow morning, and there will be no edition of The Forum Daily. We’ll be back with a final abbreviated edition on Friday, and
HE’S RUNNING — and we’ll call that news. Linda Qiu of The New York Times -check on some of what Donald Trump said about the border and migration during his announcement last night (starting with a single word: "False").
TITLE 42 BLOCKED — Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan blocked the use of Title 42, initially a pandemic-era policy that has been used to expel thousands of migrants at the border, Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS News reports. President and CEO Jennie Murray’s take in our separate statement yesterday.
PASS THE CHEESE — "If we don’t solve this labor piece, we’re going to continue to see cost increases in the supermarket on food," Rick
Naerebout of the Idaho Dairymen’s Association told Justin Corr of KTVB. The group is pushing Congress to pass the Farm Workforce Modernization Act. To the east, the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association is also supporting Demetrakakes, Food Processing Magazine).
MIGRANT TRANSPORT — Newly released documents reveal that a top official in the administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) was coordinating with alleged recruiter
"Perla" and others to facilitate migrant transport from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard (Gary Fineout, David Kihara, POLITICO). And in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has begun busing migrants to Philadelphia. (Christian Alem,
MEDICAL ABUSE — Still incredibly disturbing: Some migrant women held at a Georgia detention center "likely underwent ‘unnecessary’ invasive gynecological procedures," according to a 108-page report published Tuesday after an 18-month, bipartisan Senate investigation into women’s allegations of medical abuse. (Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News)
TECH LAYOFFS — H-1B visa holders are among the thousands of employees big tech companies are laying off, which puts a time limit on their ability to stay in the U.S. legally, Kalie Greenberg of KING-TV reports. Under the visa, they have only 60 days to find another job or self-deport. "Nobody is getting a new job in 60 days," said Graham & Walker Managing Director Leslie Feinzaig. "That is by far the most vulnerable population in this entire equation."