The Forum Daily | Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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For at least seven years, administrations have used "queue management"
or "metering" to limit the number of asylum-seekers per day at the
U.S.-Mexico border. Today an appeals court will hear a challenge to the
policy, reports Lauren Villagran of USA Today
.  

Attorneys representing a group of asylum seekers who filed the lawsuit
in 2017 say the practice violates federal law. Baher Azmy, director of
the Center for Constitutional Rights, says a ruling in the federal
government's favor "would give them a potentially dangerous first step
to dilute the protections of asylum and deny people access to the asylum
process." 

Meanwhile, the negotiations in Congress around asylum, parole and border
policies is encountering obstacles, Lindsay Wise and Michelle Hackman
report in The Wall Street Journal
.
And immigration advocates are warning that harsh asylum policies will
not deter migrants, as Jeff Brumley of Baptist News Global

reports. (Brumley's recent piece

on responses to Texas' border bill also is worth reading.)  

The editorial board at The Washington Post

offers an excellent analysis on the need for alternative legal pathways,
not just draconian measures. "A bipartisan agreement - more border
resources and procedural reforms, in return for more avenues in - has
the best shot of fixing the border," the board writes. 

Welcome to Wednesday'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, Isabella Miller and
Darika Verdugo. If you have a story to share from your own community,
please send it to me at mailto:[email protected].%E2%80%AF
[email protected]. 
 

**CLIMATE DISPLACEMENT**- A new report

from Mexico's University of the Americas Puebla says that climate
disasters displaced more than 1 million people from the Caribbean and
Latin America in 2021 alone, reports Russell Contreras of Axios
.
The report suggests that the World Bank might be low in its estimate
that climate change could displace more than 216 million people
worldwide by 2050, including 17 million from Latin American countries.
Environment-related migration is on the docket at COP28, which starts
tomorrow, as the International Organization for Migration notes
. 

**EFFICIENCY**-

****The State Department will pilot visa renewal changes in January in
an effort to increase efficiency, reports Andrew Kreighbaum of Bloomberg
Law
.
The pilot will allow H-1B holders to renew their visas from within the
U.S. instead of having to leave the country. As Jennie told Andrew, "We
applaud the State Department for taking these commonsense steps to make
visa processing more efficient. Doing so will help American businesses
as well as visa holders and applicants."  

**COMMUNITY SPEAKS UP**- An anti-immigration resolution in a Missouri
county failed after strong community pushback and organizing efforts,
reports Lacretia Wimbley for St. Louis Public Radio
.
The resolution would have recommended not allowing any migrants to
settle in the region until a lawsuit challenging a Biden administration
program is settled. "We're feeling really good that there was such a
strong show of community opposition to this resolution," said Gabby
Eissner of the St. Louis Interfaith Committee on Latin America. 

**EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT** - An Ohio program is boosting educational
opportunities for female immigrants, reports Sheena Elzie of Spectrum
News 1
.
George Sehi, a retired college educator who immigrated to the U.S. from
Iran almost 50 years ago, started Women Walking West to support
immigrant women and set them up for success in a new country. "I finally
regained that purpose and belief and that can-do attitude," said program
participant Olga Klochkov.  

 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan   

 

 

 

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