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THE FORUM DAILY
For today’s intro, we’re handing the pen to Jennie Murray, Forum President and CEO.
Today I want to address the horrible violence we saw in Utah yesterday. We are deeply saddened by the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk as he exercised his right of free speech, and we send our deepest condolences to his family.
There is no place for violence in response to open speech — we must protect our ability to disagree, debate and work through differing opinions. We must always find ways to listen better and to seek to understand different perspectives.
This terrible act will become no less tragic, but I hope it will inspire us each to commit to meet and listen to our fellow Americans. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s words are the grounding we need on a day like this: “We just need every single person in this country to think about where we are and where we want to be. To ask ourselves, is this it? Is this what 250 years has wrought on us? I pray that that's not the case.”
Welcome to Thursday’s edition of The Forum Daily. For the rest, I’ll hand things off to the Forum Daily team: Marcela Aguirre, Masooma Amin, Jillian Clark, Dan Gordon and Clara Villatoro. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to [email protected].
DETENTION OVERTIME — Immigrants are being kept in often overcrowded holding rooms for up to seven days while waiting for transfer to a detention center, reports José Luis Ávila of El País. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy calls for stays of no more than three days, a recent modification to an earlier limit of 12 hours.
VISA DYSFUNCTION — Some business leaders see the raid on the Hyundai plant in Georgia as a “wake-up call” on the use of short-term visas, reports Andrew Kreighbaum of Bloomberg Law. Korean officials say that even as the U.S. has encouraged the expansion of South Korea's investments here, it has not addressed related visa needs, report Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung of the Associated Press. “Dysfunction in our immigration system poses problems for many companies in a position to make investments,” Jennie said in a statement yesterday.
ECONOMIC DAMAGE — Research shows that large-scale deportations will damage the labor force, housing stability and tax revenue, reports Pablo Manríquez of Migrant Insider. A recent study by the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University takes Houston as an example and warns that the expulsion of millions of migrants will have a devastating impact on urban economies. “This isn’t just about immigrants; the ripple effects would reach homeowners, businesses, schools, and local governments dependent on tax revenue generated by immigrant communities,” the researchers wrote.
FULFILLING A DREAM — Lora Popov’s father escaped communist Bulgaria as a teen, coming to America and eventually settling in Indianapolis. Now she is carrying on the culinary traditions of her family and her father’s homeland with her new restaurant, Yazsh — a Bulgarian word meaning “eat,” reports Bradley Hohulin of the Indianapolis Star. In Washington, D.C., Ashley N. Soriano of The Fulcrum is the latest to report on Immigrant Food’s recipe that includes food and advocacy.
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