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THE FORUM DAILY

Our hearts break for the families and communities of at least three
children and three adults who were killed in the Nashville elementary
school shooting
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on Monday. 

We send our love and condolences to the families of at least 39 people
who died after a fire at a migration center in Mexico's northern
border city of Ciudad Juarez on Monday. (Mike Ives, The New York Times
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And we are also praying for of the two Mexican migrants who were found
dead in a train car heading eastbound from Eagle Pass to San Antonio on
Friday. (David Lynch and Teresa Velasco, KENS 5
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Separately, President Biden's proposal to limit
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some migrants' access to asylum would violate asylum officers' oath
to implement immigration laws set out by Congress, thereby breaking the
law, reports Hamed Aleaziz of the Los Angeles Times
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That's according to their union, who said, "it is draconian and
represents the elevation of a single policy goal - reducing the number
of migrants crossing the southwest border - over human life and our
country's commitment to refugees." 

ICYMI: Last week, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-California) also made a case
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to the executive branch and Congress "to revitalize America's refugee
program," per Stuart Anderson of Forbes
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Welcome to Tuesday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Clara
Villatoro, the Forum's strategic communications manager, and the great
Forum Daily team also includes Dynahlee Padilla-Vasquez and Thea
Holcomb. If you have a story to share from your own community, please
send it to me at [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>. 

BORDER ENCOUNTERS - Ahead of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro
Mayorkas' Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, border encounters
for February were released. The numbers have shown a decrease. Back in
February 2021, migrant encounters along the southwest border had hit a
record high. Numbers reached a peak
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250,000 in December, reports Andrew Dorn of News Nation
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"That number has fallen almost 40% in recent months, down to 155,000
February." 

**FEDERAL LAW IN QUESTION** - On Monday, Supreme Court justices
"questioned whether a federal law that criminalizes inducing illegal
immigration is an unconstitutional infringement of free speech rights,"
reports Lawrence Hurley of NBC News
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The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck the law
down last February, arguing that it could result in anyone like lawyers,
professional advisers or family members "being convicted merely for
saying, 'I encourage you to reside in the United States.'" 

**LABOR SOLUTIONS** - Immigration reform could help address critical
labor shortages, writes vice president of government relations and
workforce development Edwin Egee for the National Retail Federation
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"[S]ome in Congress are pushing back and trying to find centrist
approaches to address these decades-old challenges," he writes. "NRF
applauds their efforts and stands ready to assist as they do this vital,
impactful legislative work." 

**REUNITED** - José Luis Ruiz Arévalos, who was separated from his
family by a Trump administration immigration policy four years ago,
finally reunited with them in the U.S. last month, reports Zaidee
Stavely of EdSource
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"Finally, our struggle of almost four years has come to an end," said
his wife, Armanda Ruiz, in Spanish. "I have the moral support and the
economic support I didn't have, and my daughter who left college can
continue her studies." 

Thanks for reading, 

Clara 

 

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