The Forum Daily | Friday June 2, 2023
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THE FORUM DAILY

Blas Nuñez-Neto, DHS's assistant secretary for border and immigration
policy, said the number of arrivals at the border justifies
the restrictions on asylum after Title 42, reports Camilo
Montoya-Galvez of CBS News
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"[The regulation is an] effort to try to address some of the issues we
see in the asylum system, especially in light of just the sheer number
of people we are encountering right now," Nuñez-Neto said. 

Encounters at the border have decreased recently, but Nuñez-Neto
recognizes that migration hasn't stopped: "We know that there are tens
of thousands [of] migrants in Mexico and more between Mexico and the
Darién."  

The new measures have pushed migrants to strategize differently about
their journey, or at least the final part of it, as Arelis R. Hernández
and Danielle Villasana of The Washington Post
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illuminate. And Montoya-Galvez separately reports
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that the U.S. plans to offer asylum seekers nearly 40,000 appointments
per month through the CBP One app - twice the current capacity. 

Business leaders and others gathered in Socorro, Texas, near El Paso
yesterday to call for broader, bipartisan border and immigration
solutions, as Julian Resendiz of Border Report
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covers. "It's imperative that we talk about our border as being a
model for economic development, for being a model of how we treat
migrants," said Borderplex Alliance CEO Jon Barela. 

Welcome to Friday'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, Katie Lutz, Keylla Ortega, and Ashling
Lee. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send
it to me at [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>. 

'UNACCEPTABLE TRAGEDY' - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
reported Thursday that medical staff denied three or four ambulance
requests for the 8-year-old girl with a chronic heart condition who
then died in custody, reports Valerie Gonzalez of the Associated Press
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"(This death) was a deeply upsetting and unacceptable tragedy," said
Troy Miller, CBP's acting commissioner. 

DAY WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS - Thousands of businesses across Florida
closed Thursday in protest of Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R) new immigration
law, reports Cody Butler of WCTV
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in Tallahassee. Farther south, businesses closed and agricultural
workers went on strike in Homestead, Omar Rodríguez Ortiz reports in
the Miami Herald
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He notes that Immokalee
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Fort Myers
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Jacksonville
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and Orlando
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were among the other cities where protests took place. 

SPECIAL OPS - Members of an all-female Afghan platoon that helped U.S.
Special Operations troops are still waiting for long-term certainty in
the U.S., reports Ava Sasani of The New York Times
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day hurts, because I know that my family is not safe in
Afghanistan," said Nazdana Hassani. 

This week in local welcome:  

* In Houston, interfaith Ministries and other nonprofits are helping
Afghan refugees as they wait for decisions on their immigration status.
(Andrew Schneider, Houston Public Media
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* Fundraisers efforts in Port Orchard, Washington, are supporting 170
home schools to help girls continue their education through Kabul-based
aid group PARSA
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Crosscut
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* In Virginia, a Marine veteran is hosting an auto show to raise support
for refugees, especially Afghan allies still waiting to be evacuated.
(Allison Brophy Champion, The Daily Progress
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DACA'S FUTURE - U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen did not issue a
decision on the spot during a court hearing Thursday on Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), reports Juan A. Lozano of the Associated
Press
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REGIONAL PROCESSING - The White House
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and the Guatemalan government yesterday announced a six-month pilot
of migrant processing centers dubbed "Secure Mobility Offices," Al
Jazeera
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reports. It's unclear where the offices will operate in Guatemala, but
appointments will be open starting June 12. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

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