The visit came as thousands of Ukrainians in the U.S. are at risk of losing their legal status in April, Alicia A. Caldwell and Michelle Hackman report in the Wall Street Journal, with photos by Alyssa Schukar. Ukrainians who arrived during a 10-day period last April were granted permission to live in the U.S. for a year, and the government hasn’t announced plans to renew the program.  

The situation is different for Ukrainians who arrived by last April 11 — they're covered by Temporary Protected Status — and those eligible for the Uniting for Ukraine program, announced April 21. Both groups have longer-lasting, though still temporary, protection.  

"We have nowhere to go, no money for tickets, we are in despair and do not know what we will do if we are told to leave the USA," said Anna Klyuchkovskaya, a Ukrainian refugee facing these uncertainties in Los Angeles with her family.  

Forum experts are available to speak about Uniting for Ukraine and what comes next for Ukrainians in the U.S. — as well as the need to welcome and provide certainty for Afghan evacuees, who face their own deadline later this year.  

Welcome to Tuesday’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].  

HEALTH CARE — Increased immigration can help solve gaps in Iowa's health care workforce, reports F. Amanda Tugade of the Des Moines Register. "For Iowa to remain competitive and address critical shortages of physicians and other health care practitioners, it will be crucial to implement policies that ... attract and retain global talent," the American Immigration Council wrote in a recent report, part of a series covering 13 states.  

FORTHCOMING BORDER POLICY — The Biden administration is finalizing a new rule that will primarily block Central American migrants from trying to claim asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, reports Julia Ainsley of NBC News. Some human rights groups are already preparing to sue. 

OPERATION LONE STAR — Since Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) launched Operation Lone Star in 2021, more than 8,600 men have been jailed for trespassing — as have a few dozen women since fall 2022, reports Elizabeth Findell of The Wall Street Journal. "The inclusion of women has come after repeated successes by defense attorneys arguing that arresting only men for trespassing is unconstitutional … and hundreds more such cases are pending," Findell writes. 

NORTHBOUND — Many Venezuelans who have permits to live and work legally in Colombia for 10 years are heading north anyway, in search of economic stability to support their families, Genevieve Glatsky reports in The New York Times. "Even a seemingly generous [Colombian] migration policy cannot solve the low wages, lack of upward mobility and high inflation plaguing Colombia and much of Latin America," Glatsky notes. 

MIGRANT FARMWORKERS — With our food supply dependent on a reliable, legal farm workforce, Congress must act to protect them, writes Danny Sykes, a fourth-generation farmer and associate pastor at Grace Baptist Church in Kinston, N.C., in an op-ed for Christianity Today. "As inflation and soaring food costs continue to hurt families in North Carolina and around the country, Congress has a perfect opportunity not just to help build a more stable agricultural workforce but to affirm the God-given dignity of migrant workers," he writes. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan