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 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) 

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) 

Separately, President Biden’s proposal to limit 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.  

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 to the executive branch and Congress "to revitalize America’s refugee program," per Stuart Anderson of Forbes.   

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]. 

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 of more than 250,000 in December, reports Andrew Dorn of News Nation. "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. 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. "[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. "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