JFI Biweekly Review: May 6-17, 2024 JFI Colleagues, Please see below for the latest updates from JFI including action alerts, webinars, policy update, and upcoming events. New Video Resource: The Eucharist and the Church's Social Mission: Body of Christ, Broken for the World USCCB staff reflect on how the Eucharist draws us closer to Christ and to our community, transforming us to be sent on mission together to live as the Body of Christ in the world. Check out our new video on the Eucharist and Social Mission which brings to life Church teaching on the Eucharist: Body of Christ, Broken for the World. Problem Areas in Immigration Series We are excited to issue our first installment in this series, titled Religious Worker Visas: A Catholic Response, which highlights the critical role that religious workers have in Catholic communities around the country and the complicated situation that recipients of such visas find themselves. Please take a moment to read more about this important issue. Next month, we will highlight the role of migrant farmworkers and the role the Church plays in supporting these populations. For those who have friends and colleagues not on the listserv but who might be interested in this series, please send them to the JFI website for more information. SAVE THE DATE: Next JFI Webinar Ahead of World Refugee Day 2024: Support for Refugees and What Success Looks Like Please note on your calendars and save Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 2 PM Eastern for the next JFI webinar, Ahead of World Refugee Day 2024: Support for Refugees and What Success Looks Like. The U.S. Catholic church has long history of supporting refugees resettled in the U.S. Over many decades to the present time, Catholic dioceses, parishes and parishioners have helped refugee families fleeing war, famine, natural disasters, and internal strife in their home countries find safety, security and welcoming in the United States. Learn about some of our past work, what we are currently doing, and, more importantly, see and hear about refugee resettlement success in one corner of the country. Register today. Welcome Wednesday Series For #welcomewednesday, Bishop Seitz describes services provided to migrants at the Diocese of El Paso: [link removed]  Policy Update / Actualización de Política We are thankful to the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) for its weekly Migration Update. Please visit their bilingual Migration Update page to stay up-to-date on recent migration policy updates. View the May 14 CMS Migration Update, which includes: Biden Administration Proposes Rule to Restrict Asylum US State Department Announces $579 Million in Aid to Western Hemisphere Countries to Support migrants Hearing on Immigrant Youth Reveals Divisions on Immigration House Republicans Pass Bill to Exclude Noncitizens from the Census View the May 7 CMS Migration Update, which includes: Biden Administration is Considering Resettling Palestinian Refugees to the United States Biden, Mexican President Lopez Obrador Pledge Joint Action to Halt Irregular Migration Biden Administration Announces an Expansion of Health-Care Coverage to DACA Recipients Agradecemos al Centro de Estudios de Migración de Nueva York (CMS por sus siglas en inglés) por su Actualización de Migración semanal. Visite su página bilingüe de Actualización de Migración para mantenerse al día sobre las actualizaciones recientes de la política de migración. Ver la Actualización de Migración del CMS del 14 de mayo, que incluye: La administración de Biden propone una regla para restringir el asilo El Departamento de Estado de EE.UU. anuncia $579 millones en ayuda a los países del hemisferio occidental para apoyar a los migrantes Una audiencia sobre jóvenes inmigrantes revela divisiones en materia de inmigración Los republicanos de la Cámara de Representantes aprueban un proyecto de ley para excluir del censo a los no-ciudadanos Ver la Actualización de Migración del CMS del 7 de mayo, que incluye: La administración Biden está considerando reasentar a refugiados palestinos en Estados Unidos Biden y el presidente mexicano López Obrador prometen una acción conjunta para detener la migración irregular La administración de Biden anuncia una ampliación de la cobertura de atención médica a los beneficiarios de DACA Migration-Related Stories, Op-Eds and Interviews by Catholic Bishops, and Catholic Agency Executives Catholic Health Association: CHA Statement on Expanding Health Coverage Eligibility for DACA Recipients America Magazine Editorial: We stand in solidarity with migrants and asylum seekers Notable New Publications, Reports, Resources, Articles, Etc. National Bureau of Economic Research: Immigration's Effect on US Wages and Employment Redux In this article we revive, extend and improve the approach used in a series of influential papers written in the 2000s to estimate how changes in the supply of immigrant workers affected natives' wages in the US. We begin by extending the analysis to include the more recent years 2000-2022. Additionally, we introduce three important improvements. First, we introduce an IV that uses a new skill-based shift-share for immigrants and the demographic evolution for natives, which we show passes validity tests and has reasonably strong power. Second, we provide estimates of the impact of immigration on the employment-population ratio of natives to test for crowding out at the national level. Third, we analyze occupational upgrading of natives in response to immigrants. Using these estimates, we calculate that immigration, thanks to native-immigrant complementarity and college skill content of immigrants, had a positive and significant effect between +1.7 to +2.6\% on wages of less educated native workers, over the period 2000-2019 and no significant wage effect on college educated natives. We also calculate a positive employment rate effect for most native workers. Even simulations for the most recent 2019-2022 period suggest small positive effects on wages of non-college natives and no significant crowding out effects on employment. American Immigration Council: The Biden Administration’s Proposed Regulation On Asylum Bars: An Analysis On May 9, 2024, the Department of Homeland Security announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking which would allow asylum officers to reject a subset of asylum seekers earlier in the process based on several factors that are currently considered only once an asylum seeker has a full hearing before an immigration judge. Like the Biden administration’s 2023 Circumvention of Lawful Pathways regulation, this proposed regulation puts more weight on initial screening interviews conducted by an asylum officer after a person has been taken into custody by an immigration official. The proposal would make the interviews harder for some asylum seekers to pass (and thus be given a full hearing). This “credible fear” screening is already an opaque step in the asylum process, in which asylum seekers have essentially no access to lawyers or the ability to present evidence. At the same time, given the limited number of asylum officers available to carry out credible fear interviews, relatively few people who cross the U.S./Mexico border are currently being subjected to screening interviews instead of simply receiving notices to appear before an immigration judge. National Immigration Forum: The Myths and Truths of Noncitizen Voting in the United States This analysis covers the truths around immigrants voting in the U.S., which include that noncitizens have been barred from voting in federal elections since 1924. Other Upcoming Events, Opportunities, and Services Pax Christi USA Online Event: Beating Guns into Plowshares, May 18, 2024 at 1 PM Eastern. You are invited to this event on the critical challenge of how to address the crisis of gun violence in our communities. The webinar will include prayer, music, information about how to get involved in the work to end gun violence. Find out about what you can do in your own community and to connect with other Pax Christi members across the country who are also committed to ending gun violence. Join us and register today. Viator House (Chicago) Village Dinner, June 2, 2024 at 6 PM. Viator House’s annual event celebrates the international, interfaith "village" of staff, volunteers and donors that surrounds our participants. Since our founding seven years ago, 114 young men from 27 nations have called Viator House home. This is an opportunity to connect with staff, volunteers, and see up close what the Viator House Village makes possible for the young men who come through our doors. Register today to guarantee a seat. Franciscan Action Network Annual Benefit Dinner, Befriending our Impoverished Neighbors & Becoming Blessed, June 11, 2024 at 7 PM Eastern. Our annual benefit will be held virtually in partnership with St. Francis Inn, a Franciscan Eucharistic community that ministers with people who are poor and unhoused in Philadelphia, PA. In June, FAN staff and friends will spend a day at St. Francis Inn, serving dinner and learning from the guests about the circumstances that lead to economic hardship, as well as what helps people endure and overcome. FAN will also make a generous contribution to the work of St. Francis Inn. Please support us in this effort. Volunteers Needed for Credible Fear Interview Preparation in CBP Hotline. When someone crosses the border to seek asylum in the United States, they often first go through a credible fear interview (CFI). An asylum officer evaluates a person’s fear of returning to their home country and decides whether they will be allowed to apply for asylum and other forms of protection. Because it determines access to the asylum process, the CFI can have life-or-death consequences. Many groups need help preparing individuals for these interviews. Organizations including the American Immigration Council, Border Project, RAICES, and the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration are working with CBP to provide CFI preparation over the phone for people seeking asylum. Please complete our form to volunteer for this service. 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