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THE FORUM DAILY

The recent increase in asylum seekers at the U.S.-Canada border is
garnering attention ahead of President Biden's visit with Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau tomorrow and Friday, Leyland Cecco reports in
The Guardian
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Last year almost 40,000 people entered Quebec from New York via a rural
road, Cecco reports. Authorities encountered another 5,000 in January
alone. 

"This is in many ways a new issue [for Canada]," said Abdulla Daoud,
executive director of The Refugee Centre in Montreal. " ... [W]e've
seen that Canada's immigration infrastructure can handle an increase
in population, but the asylum system wasn't ever built to accommodate
this sort of issue." 

In the other direction, about 2,000 crossed into the U.S. from Canada
between Oct. 1 and Feb. 28, Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez reported
last week in NBC News
<[link removed]>.
That's a notable increase from the same period a year earlier. Ethan
Weinstein of VTDigger
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has more on the local effects. 

Welcome to Wednesday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan Gordon,
the Forum's strategic communications VP, and today's great Forum Daily
team includes Dynahlee Padilla-Vasquez, Becka Wall 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]>. 

And if you're looking for a different take from the Forum, don't miss
our new TikTok channel <[link removed]>!  

**CHOOSING PROXIMITY** - "We were present. We walked. We prayed with
people. We listened to their stories," Alma Ruth, founder of the
faith-based nonprofit Practice Mercy Foundation, told Sandra Sanchez of
Border Report
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The organization hosted students from Florida on a spring-break mission
service for migrants. "The one thing I really wanted to focus on was the
idea that God is a God that sits with you in your pain and in your grief
and God is with you in this," said Southeastern University junior Anna
Coleman. 

**INNOVATION** - Researchers at Stanford University have fresh
evidence that immigrants boost American innovation, Katia Savchuk of
Stanford shares in Phys.org
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From 1990 to 2016, 16% of inventors and 23% of patent recipients were
immigrants, researchers found. 

**U VISA BACKLOGS** - Three North Carolina organizations have joined
two federal lawsuits over long delayed U visa applications, which help
immigrant victims and witnesses of crime, reports DJ Simmons of The
Charlotte Observer
<[link removed]>.
"It's more stark the suffering, the isolation, the vulnerability that
will continue when you have a cooperative victim who doesn't have the
work permit they need," said Anna Cushman, an attorney with the Battered
Immigrant Project at Legal Aid of North Carolina. 

**RUSSIANS AT RISK** - A year after the Biden administration suspended
removals of Russian asylum seekers amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, it
apparently is moving to resume them, Victoria Bekiempis reports in The
Guardian
<[link removed]>.
"Russia has been incredibly vocal about their feelings towards
opposition," said Jennifer Scarborough, a Texas-based attorney whose
clients include four Russian asylum seekers. "Just the fact that they
fled Russia to come to the United States puts them at risk." 

**'MISSIONARY OF HOPE'** - Meet Sr. Lidia Mara Silva de Souza and
take in her experiences with migrants via her Q & A with Luis Donaldo
González in Global Sisters Report
<[link removed]>.
"I am a migrant because God called me to this mission ... I am also a
migrant because of the specific call God has given me to be a
Scalabrinian, which is a missionary of hope in the world of migration,"
Silva de Souza says. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

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