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Yesterday, in compliance with a Friday court order from Judge Nicholas
G. Garaufis, the Trump administration said that it has fully restored
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which protects young
immigrants across the country from deportation, Nomaan Merchant and
Elliot Spagat report for the Associated Press
.
"The Department of Homeland Security [DHS] posted on its website that it
is accepting new applications, petitions for two-year renewals and
requests for permission to temporarily leave the U.S."

Since DHS said that it may still "'seek relief from the order',
signaling that its concession to the court order may be short-lived if
its legal efforts succeed," Michelle Celleri, an attorney with the
advocacy group Alliance San Diego, is advising her clients to act
quickly: "There's just way too much happening right now ... I don't
want people caught in the crossfire."

Welcome to Tuesday's edition of Noorani's Notes. If you have a
story to share from your own community, please send it to me
at [email protected]
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**LASTING DAMAGE** - Three years ago, Leticia Peren was separated
from her 15-year-old son Yovany under the Trump administration's
"zero-tolerance" policy after being apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico
border. Although the pair were ultimately reunited, "the bonds broken
during their 26 months apart - when Ms. Peren was a voice on the phone
more than 1,500 miles away, as Yovany made new friends, went to a new
school, learned to live without her - have been slow to regrow,"
Caitlin Dickerson reports for The New York Times
.
"Ms. Peren says she has come to understand that being reunited with her
son did not restore the bonds they once shared. Instead, she said, they
are different people in a new place, building a relationship that is, in
some ways, just beginning." Caitlin, who is headed to The Atlantic, is
this morning's guest on The Daily

- it's a great listen.

**READJUSTMENT** - After four years of carrying out the Trump
administration's harsh agenda, U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) employees are anticipating a distinct change in tone
under President-elect Biden's leadership come January. Hamed Aleaziz
at BuzzFeed News

interviewed 12 former and current ICE officials for their take on how
Biden should overhaul the agency and its tattered reputation
.
As one former spokesperson for the organization, James Schwab, noted,
being employed at ICE under Trump wasn't about the work -  it was
"about being anti-immigrant." Said another former ICE official who
served under both Obama and Trump: "Law enforcement should be neutral,
should be driven by policy and through fair and humane implementation of
the law ... Unfortunately, ICE put their MAGA hat on. They're gonna
try to take it off come January, but I don't know how successful that
will be."

**ARREST RATES** - Between 2012 and 2018, undocumented immigrants in
Texas were less than half as likely to be arrested for violent crimes as
U.S.-born  citizens, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison
study
published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences. Melinda Wenner Moyer notes in Scientific American
 that
the study is one of the first to "link a specific immigration status to
the rates for specific types of crimes." Charis E. Kubrin, professor of
criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine,
describes the study as "another nail in the coffin of what we know about
the link between immigration and crime." Said, Michael Light, a
sociologist who co-authored the study: "Simply put, we found that
undocumented immigrants have lower felony arrest rates than both legal
immigrants and, especially, native-born U.S. citizens." 

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**'NO EXCUSE'** - Democratic California state lawmakers are
joining forces to pressure Gov. Gavin Newsom to extend health care
coverage to all Californians, including undocumented immigrants, reports
Angela Hart for Kaiser Health News
.
They plan to introduce a two-bill package, jointly proposed by state
Sen. María Elena Durazo (Los Angeles) and Assembly member Joaquin
Arambula (Fresno), would cover all undocumented senior immigrants first,
then eventually the rest of the state's undocumented population. Said
Sarah Dar, director of health and public benefits for the California
Immigrant Policy Center: "Now we have a full picture of what this crisis
is, and the blatant disparities faced by our essential workers, so
there's no excuse. Immigrant communities and farmworkers in the food and
agricultural sector, like meatpacking plants, have literally been
hotbeds for the spread of disease."

**OUT OF TIME** - In a heart-wrenching profile, The Washington Post
's
Katie Mettler and Rachel Chason tell the story of Maryland resident
Edgar Diaz-Palma, a 42-year-old father of three and undocumented
Guatemalan immigrant, who was deported on Dec. 1 after being stopped
last month by an unmarked police vehicle for an alleged illegal U-turn.
His family and friends had hoped to stay his deportation until
President-elect Biden took office, but after weeks of advocacy on his
behalf, time ran out. U.S. Rep. Anthony G. Brown (D-Maryland) told the
Post that the case "is part of what he worries is an escalation of
deportations by Trump in the administration's final months."
Diaz-Palma had been working for years to gather his immigration
paperwork, but struggled to find an attorney when the pandemic
hit. Since his deportation, his family has struggled to make ends meet:
his partner, Lily Santos, "said she does not know how they are going to
pay their rent and has been relying on a friend and a local nonprofit
group for food - including on Thanksgiving - since Diaz-Palma was
detained."

Thanks for reading,

Ali

 

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