“When a 22-year-old nursing student was found dead on a wooded trail at the University of Georgia in what’s believed to be the first homicide on campus in nearly 30 years, it set off waves of grief and fear that shook the university to its core. But when a 26-year-old migrant from Venezuela was charged on Friday with kidnapping and murdering the student, Laken Riley, it did something else: It transformed Athens and Clarke County, a community of about 130,000 people some 70 miles east of Atlanta, into the latest flashpoint in the political fight over American immigration policy.” NYT (Gift Article): Arrest of Migrant in Georgia Killing Turns City Into Latest Battleground on Immigration.

+ These days, everything quickly turns political. That’s especially true when it comes to immigration and the border. “With President Biden and former President Trump making split-screen trips to the southwest border on Thursday, new data shows the issue is rising among voters.” Immigration surges to top concern for Americans, new poll finds. Sadly, some politicians are a lot more interested in keeping this as a divisive issue and avoiding solutions (even if they negotiated those solutions themselves).

+ Some stories don’t quite fit the current narrative. WaPo (Gift Article): The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason. “Immigration has propelled the U.S. job market further than just about anyone expected, helping cement the country’s economic rebound from the pandemic as the most robust in the world.”