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"Will this cause discrimination? Possibly," attorney Haim Vasquez told community members in Irving. He added that should they be detained, they shouldn’t sign anything without an attorney present. "Now this is just making me feel like hey, now I have to worry at a daily that all I built, everything I worked is being threatened again," said Luis Hernandez, 22. Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is expected to sign the legislation soon, and it likely would take effect in March. Separately, many California university employees who have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) are calling on universities to do more to help them prepare for the program’s potential end, reports Zaidee Stavely of KQED. Among the ideas: "helping employees become independent consultants, preparing a severance package or sponsoring work visas." "The DACA generation are not kids anymore," said Madeleine Villanueva, higher education manager at Immigrants Rising in San Francisco. "A lot of us are in our 30s and 40s. We’re doing this work so that the future generation of undocumented students doesn’t have such a hard time like we did when we were going to school." 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 Katie Lutz. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected]. HILL UPDATE — The Biden administration has indicated to Congress that it would be open to hardline immigration policies in exchange for foreign aid, reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez for CBS News. Montoya-Galvez likens one measure to Title 42, the problematic pandemic-era policy. Andrew Desiderio, Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan of Punchbowl News have more this morning on the political machinations. In a statement and letter this week, Evangelical Immigration Table members called for a balance among security, order and human dignity. "We should never abandon the principle of offering asylum to those fleeing a well-founded fear of persecution," Table coordinator Matthew Soerens said. ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS — Responding to global migration with tough actions, including deterrence, "is ineffective and irresponsible, leaving people stranded or compelling them to take even greater risks," the heads of two worldwide migration agencies write in a Time Magazine op-ed. "Two ingredients are essential for our proposals to succeed: cooperation and real responsibility-sharing between governments, even in these divisive times; and attention to every part of the journey," write Amy E. Pope, Director General of the International Organization for Migration, and Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. TEXAS BARRIERS — Texas has deployed its National Guard to construct an 8-foot-high barrier near Brownsville meant to impede unauthorized immigration, reports Anna Giaritelli of the Washington Examiner. The latest facet of Operation Lone Star, the fence is designed to be resistant to cutting and difficult to scale with ladders. Texas has not disclosed the length of the barrier. LONG WAITS — San Diego's PedWest pedestrian border crossing was closed indefinitely on Friday, significantly impacting people who frequently use it for work and family visits, reports Salvador Rivera of Border Report. Waits at San Ysidro’s remaining pedestrian crossing were measuring in multiple hours earlier this week. Thanks for reading, Dan P.S. Some uplift: DACA recipient Juventino Meza has earned his law degree in Minnesota after years of hard work and giving back to his community, Laura Yuen writes in the Star Tribune. |
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