The Forum Daily | Wednesday January 31, 2024
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The challenges Jose Peña, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA) recipient and Goldman Sachs analyst, is facing illustrate the
uncertainty many people endure in the U.S. immigration system. 

Besides the legal limbo of DACA itself, Peña has been walking in
darkness since December because of a government delay in his DACA
renewal, Arcelia Martin reports in The Dallas Morning News
.
Peña submitted his application on time and hasn't received a clear
reason for the delay. But the situation is jeopardizing his present and
future: He had to take unpaid leave from his job, and he doesn't know
if he can even stay in the U.S. 

"The worst part is I've done everything I can, there's nothing more
I can do," Peña said. "It's just in the hands of somebody that God
knows when they're going to get to my case."  

In happier DACA-related news, Ernesto Antonio Moron Uribe is the first
recipient to become an officer in the police department at the
University of California, Davis, reports Maricela De La Cruz of KCRA 3
News
.
 

Moron Uribe testified before California senators in 2022, when the
state legislature was discussing the bill that now allows DACA
recipients to become police officers. "This bill will allow me and
countless others the opportunity to fulfill my dream of serving the
communities where I was raised," he said. 

Virginia lawmakers are evaluating a similar bill, reports Julie Carey of
NBC Washington
.
A Senate committee has voted to move the bill forward. 

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

'DO IT TOGETHER' - House Speaker Mike Johnson (R) has affirmed
in private conversations that the potential bipartisan immigration deal
in the Senate has "no way forward," reports a team at CNN
. And
just after midnight today, the House Homeland Security Committee voted
along party lines to advance the impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro
Mayorkas. The Wall Street Journal's latest editorial

on these developments is worth reading, and former Ohio Gov. John Kasich
(R) on MSNBC

is worth watching. "Republicans and Democrats have to do it together:
Border security [and] legal immigration," Kasich said. 

COURAGE - Rep. Tony Gonzales (R- Texas) reflects on the reality at
the border and emphasizes Congress's responsibility to offer
solutions in an op-ed for The Dallas Morning News
. "With
political courage, we can safeguard our nation while preserving the
fairness of our legal immigration system," he writes. Polling throughout
2023 indicates that Americans across the political spectrum want this
combination
,
not to mention preserving protections for people genuinely fleeing
persecution
 and
reforms that address labor shortages and inflation
.
 

PLEA FOR COMPASSION - "America can both secure our borders and
respect human dignity," Jamie Ivey and Briana Stensrud write in a
Religion News Service

op-ed. Ivey, a Christian podcaster and author, and Stensrud, director of
Women of Welcome , relate the story of
an Iranian Christian woman who was granted asylum and whom they met
during a visit to the San Diego-Tijuana border. "With Congress on the
cusp of a border solution, we urge our country not to turn its back on
individuals like our Iranian Christian sister and other immigrants
fleeing religious persecution," they write. 

FINAL RULE - Yesterday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
solidified fee increases for employment-based visas and a
revamped lottery process for H-1B specialty occupation visas, reports
Andrew Kreighbaum of Bloomberg Law
.
Fragomen immigration lawyer Kevin Miner says the changes balance
ensuring fairness and providing flexibility for people with multiple job
offers. But businesses will continue to struggle to retain foreign
talent if Congress doesn't raise the H-1B quota, Stuart Anderson
writes in Forbes
. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

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