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THE FORUM DAILY
The Biden administration’s rule all but requiring asylum seekers to use the CBP One app "impermissibly limits the right to seek asylum for many people and compels them to wait in foreseeably dangerous and inhumane conditions in Mexico," according to a new Human Rights Watch report.
As Sandra Sanchez notes in Border Report, a new regulation that has effectively mandated the use of the phone app in practice took effect in May 2023. Cartels are taking advantage of migrants waiting in Mexico for their appointments, and migrants’ ability to use the app can be limited by the absence of a cell phone or Wi-Fi, Sanchez reports.
Human Rights Watch is not alone in suggesting improvements, as Sanchez notes. Our own Border Security and Management Framework cites the current system’s shortcomings and recommends additional funding, personnel and assistance. And for more details on CBP One, see our fact sheet.
CBP One was part of the Pabón family’s long journey from Venezuela to the United States, as multimedia reporting by Gerardo Del Valle of ProPublica and The Texas Tribune relates. Separately, through the two outlets’ partnership, Perla Trevizo investigates the U.S. policy landscape that contributed to the Juárez, Mexico, detention center fire that claimed the lives of 40 men.
Welcome to Thursday’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, Ally Villarreal and Clara Villatoro. If you have a story to share from your own community, please send it to me at [email protected].
EXTRA HANDS WELCOME — Businesses in Columbus, Ohio, need and are welcoming immigrants, report Kristina Cooke and Howard Schneider of Reuters. Nationwide, immigrant workers are boosting economic growth and spending — and helping the workforce as baby boomers retire. In a white paper released yesterday, Council on National Security and Immigration leaders Julie Myers Wood and Dan Brown underscore that working-age immigrants will give the U.S. a competitive advantage over Russia and China
in coming years.
TRUMP’S PLANS — In interviews with Eric Cortellessa of Time, Donald Trump spoke about his plans for mass deportations of unauthorized immigrants. Trump would target millions, Cortellessa writes, and would rely on the National Guard — and potentially other parts of the military — "to round up and remove undocumented migrants throughout the country." Trump said he also would involve local law enforcement. Zachary B. Wolf of CNN further analyzes Trump’s plans.
PUSHBACK IN IOWA — Latino community members will be targets under Iowa’s new anti-immigration law, editor Art Cullen writes in the Storm Lake Times Pilot. The legilsation, slated to take effect July 1, will allow local law enforcement to arrest and help deport unauthorized migrants. "The message spreads fast — get out of town," Cullen writes. Hundreds of people protested the law in Des Moines yesterday, as Ophelie Jacobson of KCCI reports, and Catholic bishops in Iowa released a statement opposing the law. "As we remember our history as immigrants in Iowa, let us work together towards a fair and compassionate resolution of our challenges with migration,"
the bishops conclude.
REFUGEES — The Biden administration is considering potential ways to resettle a relatively small number of Palestinians from Gaza if they have U.S.- citizen or permanent-resident immediate family members, reports Camilo
Montoya-Galvez of CBS News. "Those who pass a series of eligibility, medical and security screenings would qualify to fly to the U.S. with refugee status," Montoya-Galvez reports.
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