The Forum Daily | Thursday, November 30, 2023
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For many migrant families in New York City, a shelter time limit for
asylum seekers is making schooling more complicated, reports Natalie
Duddridge of CBS News New York
. 

"They told us they're going to relocate us, but not here in Manhattan,
not close to where my kids go to school," said one Venezuelan mother who
is waiting with her family to be transferred to another shelter.  

While officials say they are working with each family to find school
transportation for their children, the city has a backlog of 2,000
transportation requests.  

Separately, Kevin Baxter of the Los Angeles Times

walks through the challenges the U.S. immigration system poses for most
immigrants. From young people who missed qualifying for Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to people on temporary statuses, all face
legal hurdles. "The pathway to legally immigrate to the U.S. has become
so constrained that for many, it doesn't truly exist," Baxter
writes. 

Pamela Portocarrero, a DACA recipient herself, advocates for bipartisan
immigration solutions in an op-ed for The Salt Lake Tribune
.
"The immigration system fails to provide millions of impacted families
with certainty and a chance to fulfill our fullest potential," she
writes. "These immigration bars, as well as threats to DACA, are
devastating to millions of mixed-status families like mine." 

The challenges, as well as blessings, of temporary statuses and
protections were the focus of one of our panels at our annual convening
this month. All sessions are now posted online
.  

Welcome to Thursday'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 [email protected]
. 

**LATEST ON THE HILL** - Senators' efforts to find agreement on
immigration policy changes - to pair with funding for Ukraine, Israel
and Taiwan - are not looking promising, as Ursula Perano, Daniella
Diaz and Burgess Everett spell out in Politico
.
Liz Goodwin
 and Jacob
Bogage

of The Washington Post

have more on the negotiations, and for the Associated Press
,
Lisa Mascaro, Stephen Groves and Rebecca Santana look at the asylum and
parole programs that "a deal ... would greatly restrict." 

**CHURCHES' EXAMPLE** - Seventeen churches are partnering to provide
shelter to migrants in Chicago, Marissa Perlman, Todd Feurer and Sabrina
Franza of CBS News Chicago

report. Through the "Unity Initiative," each church will receive 20
migrants and help connect them with services and resources. "We are
prepared to receive the migrants compassionately," said Dr. Michael
Eaddy, pastor missionary of People's Church of the Harvest. To the east,
the YMCA of Greater Boston is opening its doors during the day to
migrant families, Matt Stout reports in the Boston Globe
.  

**CONTRAST** - Joseph Berger, a retired journalist and Holocaust
survivor who was 5 when his family fled to the U.S. in 1950, compares
his family's experiences with those of modern migrants in a New York
Times

piece. Berger notes the stark contrast between the support his family
received and the minimal resources available to today's migrants: "Bare
bones as [our] refugee services were, they were almost luxurious
compared with what today's migrants are receiving."  

**WELCOME** - After arriving from Central Africa this past summer,
Raphael and Ngongo Joseph were welcomed in Oneonta, N.Y., thanks in
part to the Welcome Corps program, reports Jimmy Vielkind of The Wall
Street Journal
.
"We need them as much as they need us," said Mark Wolff, a French
language professor who helped the couple settle. "If you talk about
immigration in the abstract, it can be scary. But when you meet people
like Ngongo and Joseph you just want to help them." Our partners at We
Welcome and Women of Welcome
are working to form Welcome Corps
sponsorship groups - for more information, please reach out.  

 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan   

 

 

 

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