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THE FORUM DAILY

Our hearts go out to people willing to risk their lives to escape
desperate situations. 

A migrant boat sailing from Turkey crashed in Italy on Sunday, killing
at least 59 people, including 12 children, a team at Reuters
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reports. The boat was carrying people from Afghanistan, Iran and many
other countries.  

Flavio Di Giacomo, an International Organization for Migration (IOM)
spokesman, called
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of "more regular migration channels." Italian Prime Minister Giorgia
Meloni expressed deep sorrow for the deaths and blamed human traffickers
who offer "the false prospect of a safe journey." 

Here in the States, many unaccompanied migrant children, primarily from
Central America, are ending up in "a new economy of exploitation," as
Hannah Dreier reports in a New York Times
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investigative piece. "This shadow work force extends across industries
in every state, flouting child labor laws that have been in place for
nearly a century," Dreier writes.  

The investigation comprised interviews with more than 100 migrant child
workers across 20 states "who described jobs that were grinding them
into exhaustion, and fears that they had become trapped in circumstances
they never could have imagined." Don't miss this one, including the
photographs by Kirsten Luce. 

Welcome to Monday'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]>. 

SEPARATING - Some families trying to use the CBP One app at the border
to schedule asylum interviews are not able to include their children,
leading them to send their children separately as unaccompanied minors,
per Sandra Sanchez of Border Report
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"[T]he family members do not understand the intricacies of U.S.
immigration law. ... And so there's a lot of confusion and a lot of
difficult decisions being made," said Priscilla Orta, a supervising
attorney with Lawyers for Good Government. 

MEXICO ASYLUM DENIALS - Mexico's refugee assistance agency, COMAR,
launched a pilot program in southern Mexico last week to "explore
expediting asylum denials to those it deems likely to travel onward to
the U.S," reports Rosa Flores of CNN
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Its goal was to deter migrants from accessing temporary documents amid
their pending cases, but the Biden administration's pending asylum
rule "changes the whole thing," said COMAR's head, Andrés Ramírez.
"We need to rethink it." 

BLOCKING OWNERSHIP - Two GOP-led proposed bills in Texas could
prohibit certain legal immigrant populations from purchasing property in
the state, reports Sasha von Oldershausen of Texas Monthly
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Senate Bill 147 would impact Chinese nationals, Iranians, North Koreans
and Russians awaiting U.S. citizenship, while Senate Bill 552 would
prohibit individuals, companies and government entities from those four
countries from buying agricultural land in the state.  

TARGETS FOR ABUSE - Advocates in Wisconsin are raising awareness about
transnational marriage abandonment, one form of domestic violence to
which immigrants are vulnerable, reports Sophie Carson of the Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel
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"Any abuser is going to use the tactics with his means to control the
woman," said Basema Yasin, coordinator of the domestic violence support
program in Milwaukee called Our Peaceful Home. "Immigration status is
one of the most powerful tools they have." 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

P.S. Lots of heavy stuff today, so let's end with something lighter:
Fellow word nerds, enjoy Ilan Stavans' recent New York Times
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essay on how immigrants' native lexicons have enriched American
English. 

 

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