The Forum Daily | Tuesday, June 6, 2023
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Another group of migrants was flown to Sacramento on Monday, report
Brittany Hope, Hilda Flores and Ashley Zavala of KCRA News
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California's attorney general, Rob Bonta (D), confirmed that about 20
migrants were on a plane that landed in the Sacramento Executive
Airport. 

The details resemble those on Friday: Migrants from El Paso went first
to New Mexico, and their transport could be related to Florida's
migrant transportation program, per Shawn Hubler, Edgar Sandoval and
Nicholas Nehamas of the New York Times
<[link removed]>.  

"I don't know what is their motivation to organize these trips. I
don't know if it's political or part of the government. They
didn't tell us anything," migrant Wilkendri Rodriguez said in an
interview at the Sacramento airport.  

Gov. Rob DeSantis (R) of Florida hasn't commented on these cases. In
Texas, representatives for Gov. Greg Abbott (R) have said he hasn't
been involved in the California flights. Bonta's office is
investigating who's responsible, with criminal or civil action
possible. 

Separately, the Bexar County Sheriff's Office in Texas filed criminal
charges over Florida's transport of migrants from San Antonio to
Martha's Vineyard in September 2022, reports Uriel J. García of The
Texas Tribune
<[link removed]>.
 

The sheriff's office did not name any individual suspects and didn't
specify when the investigation was turned over to the Bexar County
district attorney. Back in September, DeSantis claimed credit for
sending the planes from Texas to Massachusetts, and a woman named Perla
Huerta was identified as having approached the migrants. 

Welcome to Tuesday'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, Keylla Ortega, Ashling Lee, Christian
Blair 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]>. 

**STEPPING DOWN** - Tae Johnson, the acting director of Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE), announced he will step down at the end of
the month, Dareh Gregorian of NBC News
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reports. Johnson's announcement comes less than a week after U.S.
Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz publicized his retirement plans. ICE has
not had a permanent director since 2017. 

**INDUSTRY OF IMMIGRANTS **- The question, from Aneurin Canham-Clyne
of Restaurant Dive
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"What are some of the potential political solutions to issues facing
restaurants?" The answer, from Sean Kennedy of the National Restaurant
Association: "immigration reform. We are the industry of immigrants. ...
[W]e are not going to get to where we need to be as a country with the
immigration policies we have right now."  

**AFGHAN ALLIES** - A new bipartisan Senate bill aims to bolster the
visa program for Afghan allies by extending it for five years and nearly
doubling the number of available visas, reports Rebecca Kheel of
Military.com
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The proposed legislation aims to address processing delays and backlogs
that arose within the Special Immigration Visa (SIV) program. 

**REQUEST DENIED** - The volleying between the executive and judicial
branches continues, limiting how the Biden administration can process
people at the border. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday denied
a request to stay an order that requires the administration to detain
migrants for extended periods rather than process and release them with
conditions, as Adam Shaw reports for Fox News
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**FAITH PARTNERS** - New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) announced a
plan to partner with faith-based groups to set up overnight shelter
for asylum seekers, reports Janice Yu of ABC News
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Upstate in the Times Union
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Raga Justin explains the complexity of the asylum system and how
backlogs have led to the accumulation of asylum seekers in New York. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan  

 

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