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THE FORUM DAILY

On Wednesday the departments of Homeland Security and State issued a
joint statement
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announcing enhancements to the Central American Minors (CAM) program,
including expanded access to the program and more streamlined
processes.  

These changes will have a meaningful impact for many CAM applicants and
is a step in the right direction. However, the pool of children who
qualify for program is relatively small compared to the number of people
crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum. 

And speaking of asylum, Hamed Aleaziz reports for the Los Angeles Times
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that the Biden administration is pausing a policy that expedited asylum
decisions for certain migrants at the southern border, in anticipation
of an increase in numbers when Title 42 is lifted next month. The
asylum-processing policy has earned praise from advocates since its
inception last year.  

"It's tragic to see the administration abandon even minimal progress
in favor of recycling Trump policies that are intentional in their
cruelty," said Heidi Altman of the National Immigrant Justice Center.
While the policy wasn't perfect, she added, it "represented one of the
few efforts by this administration to prioritize humanitarian
processing." 

Title 42 was never going to be the answer in the long term, but
prioritizing restrictions and deterrence over better processing isn't
the answer either. We've taken an in-depth look at what can help
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Welcome to Wednesday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan
Gordon, the Forum's strategic communications VP, and the great Forum
Daily team also includes Clara Villatoro, Joanna Taylor 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]>.     

**TOP OFFICIAL CHARGED** - Francisco Garduño, the head of Mexico's
National Immigration Institute, will face criminal charges stemming from
the detention center fire that killed 40 migrants in Ciudad Juárez in
March, a team at the Associated Press
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reports. Prosecutors say the agency was aware of safety issues prior to
the fire and cited a "pattern of irresponsibility."  

**CBP ONE** - The Biden administration is hoping that the CBP One
phone app will become the main point of access to the asylum system at
the U.S.-Mexico border, Camilo Montoya-Galvez at CBS News
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reports. More than 60,000 asylum-seekers have secured asylum
appointments in the U.S. since the app launched in mid-January, though
advocates have cited app glitches and other concerns. 

**PRIVATE DETENTION** - Despite promises to phase out private
detention centers, the Biden administration continues to jail asylum
seekers in those centers, writes María Inés Taracena of The New
Republic
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Much of the Biden administration's approach on immigration detention
echoes Trump's policies, she notes - including reports last month
that it is "considering detaining asylum-seeking families apprehended
along the U.S.-Mexico border, after largely stopping the practice over
the last two years." 

**CALIFORNIA REFORMS** - The California Legislature held its first
hearing on the HOME Act on Tuesday, Tyche Hendricks of KQED
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reports. The bill "would protect noncitizens from being turned over to
federal authorities if the governor has granted them clemency, or
they've been released from prison due to any of several criminal
justice reform laws recently enacted in California."  

**RESETTLEMENT INCREAS**E - Evangelical leaders are praising last
month's increase in refugee resettlement, Diana Chandler reports for
Baptist Press
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"It is encouraging to see, at long last, the U.S. refugee resettlement
program regain traction in helping the most vulnerable reach safety,"
said Hannah Daniel of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the
Southern Baptist Convention [and a Forum alumna]. Meanwhile, a new
report from Rice University
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shines light on female refugees' resilience. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

 

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