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THE FORUM DAILY

Today marks two decades since the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
was created. 

In a powerful op-ed for the Miami Herald
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M. Rich and Caleb Kieffer of SPLC's Immigrant Justice Project urge the
department to shift its focus away from targeting asylum seekers under
an "immigration policy based on fear and misinformation" - and toward
the real threat of domestic terrorism.  

"DHS should prioritize preventing threatening attacks, rather than
locking up and traumatizing families who are seeking asylum - a human
right protected under U.S. and international law," Rich and Kieffer
write. "We need to reduce and reprogram funding to ICE and CBP and
reinvest that money in services that benefit communities and help
prevent polarization, extremism and radicalization." 

The writers allude to the Great Replacement Theory, which is rooted in
racism and fear. We have helpful resources
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on the theory and how to combat it.   

Welcome to Wednesday'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]>.  

**BIPARTISAN SUPPORT** - A new Fox News poll finds that strong
majorities of Americans favor policies that strengthen not only the
border but also legal pathways that make it easier for unauthorized
immigrants to enter or remain in the U.S., reports Victoria Balara of
Fox News
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"Voters clearly want to enforce the border, but they're also realistic
about handling those who are already in the country illegally," said
Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who helped conduct the poll. If such
results feel familiar, they should
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(and keep an eye out in coming days for more).

**ADDRESSING LABOR SHORTAGES** - A quick quartet here: 

* Want the goods? Thank foreign-born truckers. Immigrants now make up
40% of local truckers in Houston, and 25% statewide, Elizabeth Trovall
reports in the Houston Chronicle
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* Beth Ford, CEO of Minnesota-based Land O'Lakes, told John Simons of
TIME
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that the best way to lower grocery prices and fix labor shortages is by
passing immigration reform.  

* Reforms also might help fill an increasing need for electricians -
Amrith Ramkumar of the Wall Street Journal
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reports on those shortages.  

* Bigger-picture, Evgeniya A. Duzhak analyzes how increased immigration
can continue to help ease the tight labor market in an economic letter
for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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**AN ALLY'S MESSAGE** - Aminullah Faqiry, owner of the new Afghan
Super Store in Providence, Rhode Island, was once a front-line
interpreter for U.S. troops, reports Edward Fitzpatrick of the Boston
Globe
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Today, Faquiry "call[s] on the United States Senate, the Congress, the
president, and people who know the importance of this Afghan Adjustment
Act, to please go ahead and accept this and let the Afghan people get
permanent residence," Faqiry said. (Read our summary of last year's
legislation
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**REFUGEE NUMBERS** - A USA TODAY analysis reconfirms that the U.S.
has fallen short of President Biden's targets for refugee
resettlement, "leaving tens of thousands of unfilled slots for people
fleeing perilous conditions such as wars and natural disasters," report
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Rebecca Morin and Dan Keemahill. "There's been two years of rebuilding
now, and I think our domestic capacity has grown to absorb larger
refugee numbers," said Julia Gelatt of the Migration Policy
Institute.  

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

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