The Forum Daily | Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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More than 64 million requests to enter the United States have been
registered through the CBP One

app since its use expanded in January 2023, reports Camilo
Montoya-Galvez for CBS News
.

The numbers do not represent unique petitions - individuals can
request appointments multiple times - but they shed light on the high
demand to come to the U.S., Montoya-Galvez notes. 

"There's a lot of people who would love to migrate to the United States.
In essence, they see CBP One as sort of a self-petitioning mechanism
that we've never had before," said Theresa Cardinal Brown of the
Bipartisan Policy Center and a Council on National Security and
Immigration (CNSI) leader. 

The app was designed as one way "to give migrants a legal and orderly
way to come to the U.S.," and unauthorized crossings among some groups
have dropped. But results overall have been mixed as wait times for an
appointment - 1,450 are made available daily - can be long.  

Separately, an unprecedented second impeachment vote for Homeland
Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is planned for today, as Tom
Dempsey of NewsNation

reports. A vote last week failed by the slimmest of margins. (Here's a
quick reminder of the CNSI's take

on the effort.) 

Mayorkas has no plans to resign even if he is impeached, Andrea Castillo
of the Los Angeles Times

reports in a profile of the secretary. For Mayorkas, whose family
escaped from Cuba when he was a boy, "[r]espect for the law and service
to democracy are themes that run deep," she writes. 

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

**RELIEF FOR DREAMERS** - Our friends at the Presidents' Alliance on
Higher Education and Immigration, which represents more than 550 college
chancellors and presidents, sent a letter

urging leaders to include Dreamers in future immigration negotiations,
reports Bianca Quilantan of Politico
.
"A failure to provide relief for Dreamers impacts the future of our
economy, and losing this 'capable workforce' threatens national
security interests as well, hampering the nation's 'ability to be
competitive and defend itself,'" the group wrote.  

**RELIGIOUS WORKERS** - Thousands of priests and other religious
workers who came to the U.S. legally may have to leave because of
immigration processing changes that have resulted in backlogs for
religious worker visas and renewals, The Pillar

reports. Fr. Kenn Wandera of Glenmary Home Missioners, which serves
rural parishes across the U.S., is one. "My belonging is within Glenmary
in the U.S.," Wandera said. "Full stop. ... This has been very worrying
for me." 

**DANGEROUS SPEECH** - U.S. citizens, not migrants, are responsible
for the vast majority of illicit fentanyl smuggling, Susan Benesch and
Catherine Buerger of the Dangerous Speech Project
underscore in a Los Angeles Times

op-ed. Misinformation and disinformation to the contrary is dangerous
speech, which inspires fear and violence by describing another group of
people as a threat, they explain. "[S]uch dangerous disinformation
distracts attention and resources from effective responses," Benesch and
Buerger write. 

**NONSOLUTIONS** - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) border enforcement
through Operation Lone Star is not among the solutions we need, the
Austin American-Statesman's

editorial board writes. Separately, Thomas Rachko and Johanna Cajina of
the Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute analyze the state's SB 4
law, set to take effect March 5, in an op-ed for The Dallas Morning News
.
The law will empower local law enforcement to arrest individuals for
illegal entry or re-entry. 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

**P.S.** Take a look at Brian van de Graaff's piece for WJLA

on one of our faves, D.C. restaurant Immigrant Food. 

 

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