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THE FORUM DAILY

Already, migration is an important part of the North American Leaders'
Summit. 

On Monday, President Biden and Mexican President Andres Manuel López
Obrador "reaffirmed their commitment to use 'innovative approaches'
to reduce irregular migration," Dave Graham and Jarrett Renshaw report
for Reuters
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They also discussed increasing the countries' collaboration to stem
drug trafficking. 

To help reduce migration, Mexico also wants the U.S. to improve legal
immigration channels and help spur development in Central America and
southern Mexico, Graham and Renshaw report. 

CNN
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MJ Lee, Priscilla Alvarez and Kevin Liptak offer a good recap of the
challenges President Biden is facing on immigration and border security
in the context of his visit in Mexico. But they note that finding
integral solutions requires Congress' support. 

"While he is being blamed for record migrant surges, it's a problem he
cannot solve by himself. He will look to Congress and US neighbors in
the region, namely Mexico, to step up as well," the team writes. 

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will join Biden and López
Obrador today. Although both Canada and the U.S. have labor shortages,
Canada has found a solution by increasing legal migration, Julia
Ainsley, Joel Seidman and Didi Martinez report in NBC News
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"Trudeau's new immigration goal, which is focused not only on opening
more pathways to refugees and low-skilled workers, but also attracting
highly educated workers in sectors like health care and technology,
enjoys broad-based support," they note. 

The U.S. could benefit from working to improve labor mobility, as our
policy expert Arturo Castellanos noted yesterday in a Twitter thread
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Welcome to Tuesday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan
Gordon, the Forum's strategic communications VP, and today the great
Forum Daily team also includes 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]>. 

**TAXPAYERS' MILLIONS** - Floridians could pay an additional $1
million for legal representation to defend the state in a lawsuit
related to the relocation of 50 migrants from Texas to Martha's
Vineyard last Summer, reports Douglas Soule of the Tallahassee Democrat
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The transport by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) already has cost taxpayers a lot
of money: The state paid $1.6 million to an aviation company to
transport the migrants. On the legal side, the state has paid nearly
$112,000 so far to firms Consovoy McCarthy
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and Campbell Conroy & O'Neil
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represent DeSantis and other state officials. The firms have agreed to
work with the state for up to three years - and up to half a million
dollars each. 

**CUBAN MIGRANTS' DEPORTATION** - Cuban migrants who recently arrived
in Florida are being subject to expedited removal, Ivan Taylor of CBS
Miami
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"[I]t's a deportation order," said Willie Allen, a local immigration
attorney. "It's concerning[,] what they're getting without a hearing in
front of an immigration judge." On Sunday, state authorities reported
that 53 Cuban migrants had arrived in Key Largo and Marathon, adding to
hundreds in recent weeks. Separately, Ruaridh Nicoll of The Guardian
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analyzes how the return of full consular services in Havana comes
alongside new policies that impact the migration of Cubans. In the past
year, 250,000 Cubans have been detained after attempting to cross the
U.S. border, Nicoll notes. 

**FREE SPEECH** - Encouraging people to come or stay illegally in the
country is a crime under a 1986 law. Now the Supreme Court is set to
hear a case that challenges the law, as Adam Liptak analyzes in  The
New York Times
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The main argument has been that the law "violated the First Amendment by
turning commonplace statements into felonies." A few years ago the court
questioned the law, though it ultimately decided not to rule in that
case because the parties had not raised the free-speech question. Chief
Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was among the justices who raised questions,
asking about " 'a grandmother whose granddaughter is in the United
States illegally.' Would it be a crime, he wanted to know, if she told
her granddaughter that she missed her and encouraged her to stay?" 

**INNOVATION** - Economists are trying to measure the critical role
of immigrants in innovation and technical advancements, David
Brancaccio, Chris Farrell and Ariana Rosas of Marketplace
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report. Farrell, the show's senior economic contributor, points out
that 38% of Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine, in
physics were awarded to foreign-born newcomers and that immigrants
represent a quarter of the science, technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM) workforce. "It's not a zero-sum game," he says.
"So, if you're having skilled immigrants coming in here and bringing
in their ideas, and they're working with innovators who are
native-born, everyone sees the benefit, particularly the U.S.
economy." 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

**P.S.** With the NFL playoff picture set and, more importantly, with
Damar Hamlin showing remarkable progress, take a minute to read the
story of the Cincinnati Bengals' Joseph Ossai, as reported by Jay
Morrison in The Athletic
<[link removed]>.
Originally from Nigeria, Ossai talks about the challenges his family
faced upon immigration - and how football was a turnaround from the
bullying he had experienced.

 

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