The Forum Daily | Wednesday, February 7, 2024
 ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

 

THE FORUM DAILY

** **

Well, that was fast.  

First, Republican senators said yesterday they would not vote to
advance the bipartisan-negotiated bill combining border, asylum and
immigration changes with aid for Ukraine and other allies, as Allison
Pecorin and Noah Minnie of ABC News
 reported.
Then, the House voted no on whether to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro
Mayorkas (more on this later).  

A vote on the bill is still on the schedule for today, and if it fails,
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) says he will move to a
vote on the foreign aid part of the package only, Frank Thorp V, Julie
Tsirkin and Summer Concepcion of NBC News
 report.  

As Jennie said yesterday
,
the border and immigration pieces "must be a beginning, not an end."  

"Although it has its shortcomings, the bill represents a promising
effort from Republicans and Democrats to work together on serious border
and immigration challenges," she said.  

Should the full bill fail, perhaps negotiators' hard work can serve as
a foundation for a future conversation on something even better. In
that spirit, have a look at our summary of the bill
 and,
in Bloomberg Government
,
Ellen M. Gilmer's report on concerns about whether the deterrence and
enforcement pieces would have been effective.  

Also for the reading list:  

* Read why our partners at the Council on National Security and
Immigration
 and
the Evangelical Immigration Table
 support
the bill.  

* Our senior fellow, Linda Chavez, doesn't mince words in her latest in
The xxxxxx
.
  

* Also worth reading: The Wall Street Journal
's
editorial and Nick Catoggio's analysis in The Dispatch
.  

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

**IMPEACHMENT VOTE** - By the slimmest of margins and with some
Republicans voting no, the House did not impeach Homeland Security
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas yesterday, Rebecca Beitsch reports in The
Hill
.
Another vote is likely when House Majority Leader Steve
Scalise (R-Louisiana), who is undergoing cancer treatment, returns. An
impeachment "would divert attention and resources away from actual
progress, and would do nothing to secure the border, ensure the humane
treatment of migrants, or reduce processing backlogs," the Council on
National Security and Immigration reiterated in a statement

yesterday.  

**RESETTLEMENT NUMBERS** - The newly released refugee resettlement
report shows that
around 9,200 refugees were resettled in the U.S. in January. That's a
significant increase and a level not seen since October 2016, as our
colleague Dan Kosten points out, and it's good news for a process that
is extremely well-vetted and orderly. A new poll by PBS NewsHour and
Marist National Poll

shows that 57% of voters believe that welcoming others is essential to
the fabric of the nation. Even so, support has decreased, Laura
Santhanam of PBS NewsHour

reports. 

**SOLITARY** - A Harvard University and Physicians for Human Rights
analysis of federal records shows the U.S. government used solitary
confinement on detained immigrants more than 14,000 times in five
years, reports Emily Baumgaertner of The New York Times
.
Moreover, the average length of such confinement was "almost twice the
15-day threshold
 that
the United Nations has said may constitute torture," she reports. 

**EXPLOITING MIGRATION** - Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez
has threatened to halt migrant repatriation flights and re-evaluate
bilateral cooperation if the U.S. reinstates sanctions, Arturo McFields
lays out in an op-ed for The Hill
. The
situation in Venezuela influences U.S. border migration trends, with
historical instances showing that migration can be wielded to support
dictatorships, McFields writes. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

**P.S.** Agencies in Nebraska are anticipating resettling more refugees
this year, Kassidy Arena of Nebraska Public Media
 reports.
"Whether it is cultural or financial or in any other community way,
[refugees] really have added a tremendous benefit for us and in
Nebraska," said Matt Martin of Lutheran Family Services
. "And we're just happy that Nebraska has
been such a welcoming place for so many people."  

 

 

** **

 

** **

 

DONATE

 

**Follow Us**

 

[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]

National Immigration Forum

10 G Street NE, Suite 500

Washington, DC 20002

www.immigrationforum.org

 

Unsubscribe from The Forum Daily

or opt-out from all Forum emails.

 

 
_________________

Sent to [email protected]

Unsubscribe:
[link removed]

National Immigration Forum, 10 G St NE, Suite 500, Washington, D.C. 20002, United States