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THE FORUM DAILY

President Biden plans to speak today on border security ahead of a visit
to the border next week, Nick Miroff and Tyler Pager report in The
Washington Post
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One possibility to watch for in today's speech: a plan for the U.S. to
accept up to 30,000 migrants monthly from Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti via
an expanded humanitarian parole program, while at the same time
expelling migrants from those countries who seek asylum after crossing
the border unlawfully, as Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS News
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reports.  

The plan would closely model humanitarian parole programs for displaced
Ukrainians and Venezuelans and "represent a dramatic and unprecedented
expansion of the parole authority," Montoya-Galvez notes.  

Another story that merits attention is the continuing exodus of Cubans
trying to reach the U.S., as Nora Gámez Torres and Syra Ortiz-Blanes
report in the Miami Herald
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"These flurries are often a preamble ... and the Biden administration
best pay close attention," the Herald editorial board writes
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Welcome to Thursday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan
Gordon, the Forum's strategic communications VP, and the great Forum
Daily team also includes Dynahlee Padilla-Vasquez, Clara Villatoro and
Katie Lutz. If you have a story to share from your own community, please
send it to me at [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>. 

**'BROKEN DREAMS'** - With the continuation of the pandemic-era
use of Title 42, asylum seekers are losing faith waiting in limbo in
Mexico, report Maria-Pia Negro Chin and Gina Christian of Global
Sisters Report
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"Many had hoped they would be able to meet their families [at the U.S.
side of the border] for Christmas. A lady was looking forward to seeing
her son after being 10 years apart," said Pedro De Velasco of the Kino
Border Initiative, a Catholic organization helping migrants. "The
environment is one of sadness, hopelessness, of broken dreams." The
policy has rapidly expelled migrants more than 2.5 million times,
effectively blocking them from asylum and putting them in danger.
Catching up from over the break: Read the story of Rafael and his
family's escape from Venezuela, the many challenges they faced to make
the journey north, and their experience during and after being flown to
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Mike Damiano tells it compellingly
in the Boston Globe
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**FAMILY-SEPARATION FILES** - Following her remarkable exposé on
President Trump's family-separation policy
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last year, Caitlin Dickerson has published internal government
documents, also in The Atlantic
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that informed her reporting. More than 5,000 children were separated
from their families during Trump's term, and hundreds remain
separated. "These records showcase, among other things, government
officials' attempts to mislead the public; inconsistent and sometimes
nonexistent record keeping, which to this day means that a full
accounting of separations does not exist; efforts to extend the length
of time that children and parents were kept apart; and early and
repeated internal warnings about the policy's worst outcomes, which
were ignored," Dickerson writes.  

**LIVED EXPERIENCE** - "I am the wife of a DACA recipient. I am the
daughter of Guatemalan working immigrants. I know firsthand the
challenges and constant fear our families live every single day," Delia
Ramirez (D-Illinois), newly elected to Congress, said last month.
Ramirez continues to uplift her immigrant family history, in part
to connect with voters and further understand her base, Catherine E.
Shoichet of CNN
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reports. Ramirez's mother crossed the Rio Grande when she was pregnant
to give her family better opportunities. "My mother wouldn't have
risked my life or hers had it not been the only option she saw for her
unborn child to have a chance at a life and childhood better than hers,"
Ramirez said. 

**OPENING, CLOSING DOORS** - Canada is ramping up immigration to fight
a tight labor market and set a record in 2022, Reuters
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reports. The Canadian government announced Tuesday that more than
437,000 foreigners were granted permanent residency last year. Canada
plans to bring in 1.45 million new permanent residents by 2025. In
contrast, Sweden is becoming more restrictive on immigration, reports
Elliott Davis Jr. of U.S. News & World Report
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general approach is to lower the standards in order to make Sweden less
attractive as a destination," said Bernd Parusel of the Swedish
Institute for European Policy Studies. Until recently, the country had
been more open to immigration than many of its European counterparts.
Sweden was one of five case-study countries in our October 2021 report
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together with the Migration Policy Institute, RAND Corporation and
Metropolitan Group, on how migration narratives can shift and be
weaponized. 

**A GREAT RESOURCE** - He's 17, he's in high school, and he has
created an online resource that helps immigrants and refugees easily
find services throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Ian Kayanja of D
Magazine
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reports on David P. Gibson's project, Juntos DFW
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Gibson's site also helps overcome language barriers, providing
services in four languages. "We need to make these resources available
to people," Gibson said. "These resources are out there; they are just
not well publicized to this population." Gibson is considering expanding
the service to other cities in southern Texas and southern California. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan  

**P.S.** Here's another story of young talent, one we had missed this
last month. Tanitoluwa "Tani" Adewumi, now 12, is a chess prodigy
originally from Nigeria who won a New York state championship in his
division while homeless (and 8 years old) in 2019. He and his family
were just granted asylum in the U.S., Sydney Page reports in The
Washington Post
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