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THE FORUM DAILY

One big thing to watch today: House and Senate leaders are scheduled to
meet with President Biden regarding the negotiations over Ukraine and
other foreign aid together with border and migration measures, a team at
NBC News

reports after Punchbowl News
broke
the story.  

Meanwhile, the immigration court backlog has grown by more than a
million cases within the past fiscal year, reports Giovanna Dell'Orto
of the Associated Press
.  

Miami alone has 261,000 pending cases of migrants placed in removal
proceedings, the largest docket in the country. Organizations such as
Catholic Legal Services for the Archdiocese of Miami teach migrants how
to self-petition and represent themselves before a judge.  

"We help them understand what judges want, and we help judges with
efficiency and preserving fundamental rights," said Miguel Mora, a
Catholic Legal Services supervising attorney in Miami. 

The process can take years and prevents families from making a real home
and integrating into American society, says Karen Musalo, an attorney
and professor who leads the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies at the
University of California, San Francisco. 

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

DISPUTE - Our hearts ache with the news that a mother and her two
children drowned in the Rio Grande Friday night. On Monday, the
Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to allow federal agents to
reach the area where the drownings took place, which the Texas National
Guard and Texas Military Department currently occupy, Valerie Gonzalez
of the Associated Press

reports. A team at CNN

offers more on the drownings and the state-federal dispute. 

BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE - Per AP VoteCast, Iowa Republican voters named
immigration and the economy their top issues as Donald Trump won the
Iowa Caucuses, reports Gregory Korte of Bloomberg
.
On a webinar organized by the Evangelical Immigration Table and World
Relief last week, faith leaders from Iowa, New Hampshire and South
Carolina called on presidential candidates to "consider a biblical
perspective
"
on immigration, reports Diana Chandler of Baptist Press
.
You can view a recording of the webinar here
. 

CONSEQUENCES - Donald Trump's attacks against Nikki Haley, promoting
the unfounded theory that his opponent is not a "natural born citizen,"
have consequences that go beyond the election, Forum Senior Fellow Linda
Chavez writes in The xxxxxx
.
Chavez reflects on some of the fringe interpretations of the 14th
Amendment in the past 20 years and points out that Trump "has made
clear that he intends
 to
revoke birthright citizenship (or at least to try) on his first day in
office if he is re-elected." That could affect millions of people born
in the U.S. 

**ADMINISTRATIVE HURDLE**S - New York City and Chicago are seeking
more flexibility from DHS on a requirement for the reimbursement of
funds for migrant assistance, reports Sally Goldenberg of Politico
.
Officials say they learned only in November of the requirement to gather
migrants' identification numbers. Separately, Chicago is navigating
extreme cold as it tries to shelter asylum seekers, reports Kim Bellware
of The Washington Post
.
The city has delayed enforcing a 60-day limit on shelter stays, as Todd
Feurer of CBS News reported earlier for CBS Chicago
. 

DREAM ORCHESTRA - In Sweeden, a group of immigrants, asylum-seekers
and refugees searching for a new home gathered around music when
Venezuelan orchestra conductor Ron Davis Álvarez started what now has
become a 400-member orchestra, reports Catherine E. Shoichet of CNN
. "We
are not case numbers. We are not names on a list. We are people who
bring different knowledge, experience and opportunity - and a lot of
dreams," Davis Álvarez said. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan  

 

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