The Forum Daily | Wednesday June 14, 2023
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An agreement between the United States and Costa Rica aims to manage
the region's flow of asylum seekers by opening potential legal
pathways to the U.S. for some Venezuelans and Nicaraguans already
awaiting asylum in Central America, reports Javier Cordoba of
the Associated Press
<[link removed]>.   

Costa Rica will join the initiative Movilidad Segura
<[link removed]> (Safe Mobility). The pilot
program will allow eligible individuals to schedule a screening
appointment to assess their candidacy for legal pathways at a Movilidad
Segura office, a regional processing center.  

In recent years, asylum applications from Nicaraguans in Costa Rica have
increased. Last year, nine out of 10 applications were from Nicaraguans,
Cordoba notes. 

On Tuesday, Costa Rican Public Security Minister Mario Zamora and
migration director Marta Vinda highlighted that only Nicaraguans and
Venezuelans with pending asylum applications would be considered in the
pilot program.

Details about the legal pathways for the asylum seekers have not been
provided. And it is unclear, how many of the 240,000 people awaiting
asylum in this Central American country would be eligible to apply
for U.S. immigration paths, writes Cordoba.   

In Guatemala Movilidad Segura was enacted on June 12, and is only
available to Guatemalans and nationals under the Central American Free
Mobility Agreement - El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua, per the
U.S. Embassy in Guatemala
<[link removed]>. 

Eight offices will be opened across Guatemala. The centers would be
directed by the United Nations Refugee Agency and the International
Organization for Migration, per Sonia Perez D. for the Associated
Press
<[link removed]>
on Friday. 

Yesterday, a day after the launch of Movilidad Segura in Guatemala,
Perez D. reported in Spanish
<[link removed]> that some
of the offices were still lacking infrastructure and staff to serve
the program applicants.  

Welcome to Wednesday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Clara
Villatoro, the Forum's strategic communications manager, and the
great Forum Daily team also includes Karime Puga, Ashling Lee, Keylla
Ortega, Samuel Benson, 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]>. 

MORE FUNDS - The federal government will grant $290 million to
non-profit organizations helping migrants who have been processed and
provisionally released, reports Sandra Sanchez of Border Report
<[link removed]>.
"This money helps us breathe. This money helps the programs to stay
stable and available for all the migrants who are coming through our
community," says Rebecca Solloa, executive director of Catholic
Charities of Laredo.  

FLORIDA APPEALS - A Florida appeals court heard arguments and
questioned an October ruling determining that "Gov. Ron DeSantis'
administration violated Florida's public-records law last year by not
properly providing documents about controversial flights of migrants
from Texas to Massachusetts," reports a team of CBS Miami
<[link removed]>.
In the hearing, Judge Brad Thomas repeatedly questioned what would have
been a "reasonable" time to provide the records, the CBS team notes. 

**HOTEL STAFF SHORTAGE** - Despite record wages and benefits, hotels
still struggle to fill jobs, reports Kathakali Nandi Hotels Magazine
<[link removed]>.
To tackle this issue, Chip Rogers President and CEO of American Hotel &
Lodging Association (AHLA) called for "bipartisan solutions, including
those that create opportunities for more immigrants to enter the
American economy," in addition to other initiatives.  

STRUGGLES- Undocumented Guatemalan-Mayan immigrants in Florida fearing
deportation and lack of access to medical care under SB1718 are fleeing
the state, reports Wilkine Brutus of WLRN
<[link removed]>.
The Guatemalan-Maya Center even launched a fundraiser to support people
who decide to leave. But they are trying to inform them about the
situation first with the hope they will stay in their communities.
Separately, Stanford sociologist Asad L. Asad published a book about how
undocumented immigrants endure institutional surveillance in their
everyday lives, per Vignesh Ramachandran of Stanford News
<[link removed]>. 

Thanks for reading, 

Clara 

 

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