The Forum Daily | Wednesday, January 10, 2024
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THE FORUM DAILY

The Biden administration's use of humanitarian parole has become a
sticking point for Senate negotiations, reports Ellen M. Gilmer of
Bloomberg Government
.

Parole is "really at the heart of the administration's strategy to
create legal pathways as a way of encouraging people to come lawfully,
with permission, as opposed to with a smuggler," said Angela Kelley of
the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Republican negotiators have said they would want to focus on "limiting
the use of parole for migrant releases at the border," but others in the
party are pressuring negotiators to gut the program.

"Constraining [parole] authority could tie the hands of a future
administration of either party when they really need to use it," said
Theresa Cardinal Brown of the Bipartisan Policy Center, also a Council
on National Security and Immigration (CNSI) leader.

The CNSI on Friday recommended

procedural guardrails and more oversight for the program, "while
maintaining traditional executive branch discretion for case-specific
parole authority." (This morning the CNSI also reiterated

opposition to impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, on which a House hearing is under way this
morning.)

On the reasonable solutions front, Steven Rattner and Maureen White put
forward suggestions in a guest essay in The New York Times
,
with graphics by Taylor Maggiacomo. Lots of good ideas here - we'd
just emphasize the need for a reasonable, not excessively restrictive
standard for initial screenings of people legitimately fleeing
persecution, and the need to maintain existing legal pathways such as
parole to reduce irregular migration at the border.  

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

**THE RHETORIC** - Immigrants and advocates in Iowa are disturbed by
the political rhetoric in election ads, report Danielle
Paquette and Sabrina Rodriguez of The Washington Post
.
Gloria Henriquez, a restaurant owner born in El Salvador, worries that
words from candidates like Donald Trump will fuel a suspicion of
outsiders. "I will use Trump's own words: He will poison Americans'
mindsets," she said.

**MICROCOSM**- A Venezuelan family received a letter saying they'd
been granted asylum - and one saying they'd been denied. It's one
example of an overwhelmed immigration system, including almost 2 million
backlogged asylum cases, Nina Agrawal of The New York Times

reports. Grisy Oropeza, who came here from Venezuela with her husband
and children, said of the experience, "One goes through so much to get
here. To get here and not know your destiny, to be still on that journey
- it's depressing."

**FINDING BALANCE** - In Forbes
,
NYU professor Michael Posner reminds us of the foundations for offering
protection to people fleeing persecution. Amid the increase of migration
around the globe, countries instituting tough new policies risk
breaching international agreements. "The way forward is not to curtail
everyone's right to seek asylum, but to make the system both fairer
and more efficient," he writes. Polling we conducted last year

demonstrates that Americans still value the U.S. being a refuge for the
persecuted.

**'BLESSED'**-

****Ethan Bauer of

****Commonweal

zooms in on the work of faith organizations that have welcomed migrants
flown from Texas to Sacramento, California, last year. Yoel and
Wilkendry were among Venezuelan migrants who were enticed onto planes by
promises of work in California and later found themselves helpless on
the streets in Sacramento. "I have no words. They offered true support,
substantial support," said Yoel about the city's faith community. "I
feel very lucky, very blessed. I thank God for putting these people in
my path."

Thanks for reading,

Dan

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