The Forum Daily | Thursday, September 21, 2023
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THE FORUM DAILY

Nearly half a million Venezuelan migrants will be able to live and work
in the U.S. legally after the Biden administration expanded the
Temporary Protected Status program (TPS), reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez
for CBS News
.
This expansion of TPS will allow Venezuelan migrants who arrived in the
U.S. recently to apply for the program's deportation protections and
work permits.  

Previously, only Venezuelans who arrived in the U.S. before March 2021
qualified for TPS. Expanding the program comes after elected leaders
from multiple large cities, but especially New York, spent months
pressuring the Biden administration to give migrants coming to their
communities legal status. New York City Mayor Eric Adams thanked the
administration for "taking this important step that will bring hope to
the thousands of Venezuelan asylum seekers currently in our care who
will now be immediately eligible for Temporary Protected Status." 

Of course, the Temporary Protected Status program is exactly what the
name implies - temporary. Despite the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) announcing it will also expand the validity period of work
permits, there is still no permanent solution for these displaced
communities until Congress takes legislative action.  

Separately, Victoria Guida for Politico

reports that a surge of legal immigration has helped fill jobs which
otherwise might have gone unfilled. Jennie Murray, president of the
National Immigration Forum, contends that before the Pandemic we were
facing a labor shortage and now, "With our declining population growth
and then this restriction on legal immigration, we're now far behind
that." 

Welcome to Thursday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Becka Wall,
the Forum's digital communications VP, and the great Forum Daily team
also includes Jillian Clark, Ashling Lee and Katie Lutz. If you have a
story to share from your own community, please send it to me at
[email protected]. 

IMMIGRATION REFORM - At an Immigration Law and Policy Conference, top
officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stressed the
urgency of addressing immigration reform, writes Sandra Sanchez of
Border Report
.
"We're doing our best to try to address some of these infirmities in
the system," said Blas Nuñez-Neto, assistant secretary for Border and
Immigration Policy at DHS. "But we're never going to solve it without
meaningful work in Congress."  

SMUGGLING -Increasing ties with the World Customs Organization and
establishing a "Chemical Industry Outreach Project" are just some of the
ways the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) office will attempt to
increase fentanyl seizures and break up supply chains, reports Nick
Miroff for The Washington Post
.
The deadly drug is usually produced in Mexico and then smuggled into the
United States by green card holders or U.S. Citizens. The latest
statistics show authorities collecting more than 25,000 pounds of
fentanyl before the end of the current fiscal year, "a fivefold increase
since 2020."   

REACTIONS - As many still process the latest court ruling on the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA), Rita Omokha
shares the experiences and reactions of several DACA recipients in her
piece for The Guardian

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. One educator and activist, Alondra Garcia, says that her reaction is
similar to what she felt when the program was first challenged: "Fear,
uncertainty, sadness, anger - a mix of emotions."  

**WELCOME CENTER** - In Massachusetts, cities and towns have stepped
up to help house the unprecedented number of migrant families that have
entered the state. The state's new "welcome centers" are meant to help
both new migrant families and families experiencing homelessness. On
WGBH's

All Things Considered you can listen to host Arun Rath speak with the
Quincy Welcome Center's program director Patricia Zio and program
manager, Frenika Valcin. 
 

Thanks for reading,  

Becka 

 

 

 

 

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