The Forum Daily | Tuesday, October 17, 2023
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THE FORUM DAILY

 

A plan to settle a class-act lawsuit over the Trump administration's
family separation policy is expected to be approved, reports Camilo
Montoya-Galvez of CBS News
.

Nearly 4,000 migrant children were separated from their parents under
the policy. The settlement agreement would give affected families legal
and social benefits, including a special process to apply for asylum in
the United States.

The proposed settlement also would disallow the federal government from
again using the same legal argument the Trump administration used to
justify separations. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw is expected to
approve the agreement, which would last six years.

"Nothing can make these families whole again or eliminate the moral
stain of this policy, but this is an important start," said Lee Gelernt,
the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyer representing the
migrant families.

The ACLU, other advocacy groups and the Biden administration are still
assisting in the search for the hundreds of parents who were deported
after being separated from their children.

Meanwhile, we are mourning 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume, who was killed
over the weekend in an alleged anti-Muslim hate crime in Plainfield,
Illinois. Wadea's parents had emigrated from the Palestinian
territories. I was reassured to read the words of U.S. Attorney General
Merrick Garland
:
"No one in the United States of America should have to live in fear of
violence because of how they worship or where they or their family come
from."

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 Jillian Clark, Clara Villatoro and Katie Lutz. If you have
a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at
[email protected] .

**BORDER RUNDOWN**- José Ignacio Castañeda Perez of The Arizona
Republic

presents the facts - and counters myths - about Arizona's border
with Mexico and broader border and immigration debates. We appreciate
that he calls out "invasion" rhetoric - as we've noted
,
such rhetoric is rooted in dangerous ideology. Perez also points to new
research from America's Voice

suggesting that claims of "open borders" are encouraging migrants to
come to the United States. Vanessa Cárdenas writes more about the
research in an op-ed in The Messenger
.

**TO BREATHE FREE** - People seeking refuge in the United States
should be allowed due process and basic human dignity, Ryan Brown of
Open Doors U.S. and Myal Greene of World Relief write in an op-ed for
the Washington Examiner
.
Raising their voice as Christians and advocates for persecuted people
around the world, Brown and Greene say that bill in Congress would get
in the way. "H.R. 2 would go well beyond halting immigrants from
entering the country unlawfully and evading apprehension: It would
dramatically restrict due process for those seeking asylum, including
those persecuted for their faith," they write.

**WARNING** - Customs and Border Protection has confirmed the death of
a migrant after a medical emergency at a camp near San Ysidro, near the
California-Mexico border, reports Guillermo Méndez of NBC San Diego
.
It is considered the first death connected to the outdoor migrant camps
in that area. "For us, it is very worrying because we have been warning
for months that the way of having people under these subhuman conditions
will cause the loss of life, and here unfortunately we are seeing that
happen," said Pedro Ríos, the Director of the Organization Committee of
the friends of San Diego.

Thanks for reading, 

Dan  

P.S. For a touch of inspiration, take a look at Marianne Todd's piece
in the Santa Fe New Mexican

about a small population of resettled Afghan women who are building
community in Santa Fe.

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