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THE FORUM DAILY

President Biden's proposed 2024 budget would boost border, immigration
and refugee resources, Rebecca Morin reports in USA Today
<[link removed]>.  

A few pieces jump out: A newly proposed $4.7 billion contingency fund
would help better manage temporary immigration increases at the
U.S.-Mexico border. The funds would cover 350 new Border Patrol agents
and 460 new processing assistants for CBP and ICE. They also would
increase investments for border technology at and between ports of
entry.  

ICE funds also would go toward processing an increasing asylum caseload,
reducing the immigration benefits request backlog, and supporting the
Citizenship and Integration Grant Program.  

And, not least, $7.3 billion would go toward rebuilding our refugee
resettlement infrastructure. That's still very much needed, as our
former colleague Danilo Zak wrote this week
<[link removed]> in sharing
the latest refugee resettlement numbers. 

Welcome to Friday'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]>. 

**NEEDED: 3,000 WORKERS**- A new, $20 billion Intel Corp. plant in
Ohio is meant to revive domestic chip production, ease dependence on
Asian imports and compete with China. But as Shawn Donnan of Bloomberg
<[link removed]>
reports, the company is already struggling to find the estimated 3,000
workers it needs due to labor shortages. Donnan analyzes the factors
that have led to current labor shortages and the potential solutions
including (you guessed it) revamping immigration policy. 

**AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE**- "My children shouldn't have to worry about
my future - or our very existence as a family," Monica Carrillo
Martinez writes in the Idaho Statesman
<[link removed]>.
"If our politicians say they fight for families, they need to show some
real leadership and protect all of us," writes Carrillo Martinez, a DACA
recipient and mother of two who lives in Driggs, Idaho.   

**FOR OUR ALLIES**- About 150,000 Afghan special immigrant visa
applicants are still trying to escape Afghanistan, per estimates by
officials and advocates, Jack Detsch and Robbie Gramer write in
**Foreign Policy**
<[link removed]>

**.** Meanwhile, in an op-ed for WBUR
<[link removed]>,
Lina Tori Jan and Melanne Verveer of the Georgetown Institute urge
Congress to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act to protect Afghan women and
all Afghan evacuees from the Taliban. 

Locally: 

* The Joplin Interfaith Coalition will hold its annual bake sale
Saturday, with proceeds going to refugees in the Missouri community.
(Roger Namer, The Joplin Globe
<[link removed]>) 

* Thanks to Wazir Hashimi, President and founder of the nonprofit
Vermont Afghan Alliance <[link removed]>, Afghan
families are learning how to drive to become self-sufficient. (Auditi
Guha, VTDigger
<[link removed]>) 

* Toba Adina-Jao writes about her life having come full-circle when she
read

**Me, Mommy, Mantu**, her children's book celebrating Afghan culture,
to elementary school students in West Sacramento, California: "I
realized that I too was the little refugee girl I saw in front of me."
(Alameda Post
<[link removed]>) 

**CHILD LABOR**- "Immigrants are particularly vulnerable" to child
labor, Harvest Prude reports in a good explainer in The Dispatch
<[link removed]>. Says
Reid Maki, director of child labor advocacy for the National Consumers
League and coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition: "I see it as
primarily a story of immigrants who are being exploited."   

**POTENTIAL TEACHERS**- Pennsylvania state Sen. Judy Schwank (D) is
pushing a bill to allow undocumented immigrants to get certified as
teachers to help address labor shortages, reports Sanika Bhargaw of WHTM
<[link removed]>.
"There's so many of them that have just dreams of being successful in
this country, and many of them want to be educators as well," she
said. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan  

 

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