JFI Biweekly Review: May 20-31, 2024

JFI Colleagues,

Please see below for the latest updates from JFI including action alerts, webinars, policy update, and upcoming events.

Problem Areas in Immigration Series

Our second installment in this series, Migrant Farmworkers: A Catholic Perspective, highlights the important role that migrant farmworkers have in the food supply chain, the different situations with these workers and the businesses or farms that employ them, and includes a video of a priest in the Diocese of Yakima who ministers to migrant and H-2A farmworkers. Please take a moment to read and learn more about this important issue.

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 National Call

June 26, 2024 at 2 PM Eastern/11 AM Pacific

Please note on your calendars the date and time for the next JFI national call on Zoom. Information to participate will be sent via email next week. Please send us an email message if you want to be part of the JFI national call.

Internship Reflections: A Journey with USCCB's Migration and Refugee Services

Read the blogpost about the activities of one of our interns as she is about to complete her time at USCCB/MRS. Thanks, Bernice!

Welcome Wednesday Series

For #welcomewednesday, Bishop Seitz describes services provided to migrants at the Diocese of El Paso: https://www.instagram.com/p/C53VFusPFyc/

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 Updat e page to stay up-to-date on recent migration policy updates.

View the May 21 CMS Migration Update, which includes:

Senate Democrats to Revive Restrictive Border Bill
Biden Administration Announces New Change to the Asylum Process
US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Groups, Sue to Halt Implementation of Iowa Immigration Law

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 21 de mayo, que incluye:

Los demócratas del Senado reactivarán un proyecto de ley fronterizo restrictivo
La Administración Biden anuncia nuevo cambio en el proceso de asilo
Departamento de Justicia de EE.UU. y grupos de derechos civiles demandan para detener la implementación de la ley de inmigración de Iowa

Migration-Related Stories, Op-Eds and Interviews by Catholic Bishops, and Catholic Agency Executives

Kevin Appleby, Senior Fellow at the Center for Migration Studies of New York: Catholic Teaching and the Border: It Is Not What Some May Think

Notable New Publications, Reports, Resources, Articles, Etc.

International Migration Review (IMR): Spring 2024 Edition

The quarterly edition of the IMR is now available online and in print. This edition is thematically sorted into four sections. The first section has articles about migrants in Asia. The second section discusses immigrant integration: human capital and labor markets. The third section is about changes in migrant and migration politics and policies. The fourth section examines refugees and host societies. Lastly, this edition includes eight book reviews.

Urban Institute: Examining Afghan Evacuees’ Resettlement: Insights and Lessons for Future Humanitarian Populations

The abrupt and traumatic evacuation of more than 80,000 Afghans to the US in the fall of 2021 coincided with an ongoing global pandemic and a worsening US housing crisis. The US’s resettlement infrastructure at the time was also weak as it was expanding and transitioning under a new administration after historically low refugee admissions levels in previous years. Afghan evacuees were caught in the middle of this policy shift and have experienced challenges with housing, employment, and the immigration system, among other issues.

Other Upcoming Events, Opportunities, and Services

Capitol Hill Briefing: Human Trafficking-Forced Migration & the Legislation that Can Break the Link, June 6, 2024 at 9:30 AM. Please join the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in seeking attainable bi-partisan solutions to reduce human trafficking in the U.S. through diminishing root causes of migration, protecting unaccompanied children, and speeding up asylum seekers' access to work. Call 301-622-6838 for more information.

Diocese of Arlington Jubilee Fest, June 8, 2024 at the Warren County Fairgrounds, Front Royal, VA. There is so much in store for the thousands of Catholics in the diocese for the Jubilee Fest. Bishop Burbidge hopes you will be among them! See the schedule of events.

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 m this effort.

Salesians of Canada and the Eastern U.S.: Salesian Summer of Service. The Salesian Lay Missioner program and Salesian Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry are partnering to offer a “Summer of Service,” in which college-aged young adults will be invited to spend from one week to two months living in community with Salesians in our various works while doing service. As part of community living, they will eat meals, share prayer moments, attend daily Mass with the local Salesian community, and receive formation and accompaniment from a local Salesian. Learn more.

In solidarity,

Tony Cube

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