NOORANI'S NOTES

 

 

Some breaking news this morning: The Department of Homeland Security
stated

that it is complying with preliminary injunction orders and is
automatically extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for
beneficiaries from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, Honduras, and
Nepal to October 4, 2021, from its current expiration date of January 4,
2021 - which is just weeks away.

As we've previously noted, many TPS recipients have been living in
fear of being sent home to countries in which the Trump administration
alleges conditions have improved. Some of them have been in the U.S. for
decades. Meanwhile, an estimated

131,00 TPS holders from El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti have been
supporting our nation as essential workers during the pandemic.   

Welcome to Wednesday'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]
. 

[link removed]

**PRIORITY**- While the Trump administration's compliance with last
week's court order to fully restore Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) is an important step forward, Dreamers still need
certainty in the form of a permanent congressional solution that stops
the "rinse-and-repeat" cycle of lawsuits, as I wrote in my latest op-ed
for Fox News
:
"Will the incoming Biden administration be able to work with Republicans
and Democrats in Congress to make a permanent legislative solution for
Dreamers a top priority?" Now more than ever, America needs Dreamers:
Nearly 300,000 people protected by DACA are frontline health care
workers, notes Jay
Timmons, the CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers. Dreamers
are also expected to contribute an estimated $433 billion to the gross
domestic product
 and
pay $12.3 billion in taxes
 to
Social Security and Medicare over the next 10 years. 

**DEDICATED** - Dr. Carlos Araujo-Preza, a Houston pulmonologist and
immigrant from El Salvador, died of COVID-19 on Nov. 30 after becoming
infected in October by the same virus as the patients he cared for
everyday at HCA Houston Healthcare, reports Harmeet Kaur for CNN
.
In the months leading up to his illness, Araujo dedicated himself to his
patients, working long hours and even sleeping in the hospital for most
of April. Even as his family worried about him, his daughter says he
considered being a doctor his calling: "He was so brave. He loved
medicine and he loved helping patients. He was so excited to wake up
every day and go help people." A reminder that immigrants have been
critical to the nation's COVID response: they constitute 17%

of all health care workers nationwide. 

**CANARY ISLANDS**-

****A refugee crisis is building off the coast of Spain as refugees,
including thousands of unaccompanied children, are fleeing northern and
west Africa by sea to reach the Canary Islands. Al Jazeera

reports that approximately 20,000 refugees and migrants have reached the
Canary Islands in 2020 so far, up from 2,557 in 2019. Save the
Children's Catalina Perazzo spoke to the trauma faced by children
making the voyage: "For example, they have seen people dying on board
and being thrown into the sea, they have suffered from a lack of food
and some may have experienced violence and, of course, separation from
their parents - all these factors can scar the children for life."

[link removed]

**DEMOGRAPHIC DECLINE**- America must boost immigration in order to
offset continuing demographic decline, which will likely be accelerated
by the COVID-19 pandemic, writes senior research fellow Daniel Griswold
in a paper for George Mason University's Mercatus Center
.
"Behind the sharp decline in the U.S. population growth rate in the past
two decades has been a steady rise in deaths per year, a falling number
of births owing to an even steeper decline in the birth rate, and
declining levels of net international migration, a trend even more
pronounced recently in large part because of executive actions by the
Trump administration," Griswold writes. "A more open policy toward
immigration would be the single most effective step the U.S. government
could take to avoid the problems outlined earlier of a declining
population and workforce."

**COMMUNITY POLICING** - Drawing on 10 years of research on
immigration and policing, the Police Executive Research Forum
(PERF), in
collaboration with the Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force
, has put together a list

of "outreach, training, and educational programs" across the country for
improving policing with respect to immigrant and refugee communities.
This document is a great resource for police departments and agencies
across the country looking for ways to improve community policing and
their relationship with immigrant communities in their jurisdictions. I
hope you'll take the time to look and learn more.

Thanks for reading,

Ali

 

DONATE

 

**Follow Us**

 

[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]

 

 

 

The

**Only in America** podcast brings you to the people behind our
nation's immigration debate.

 

Listen now on:

 

**iTunes**
,
**Stitcher**
,
**Spotify** ,
and **more.**

 

 

National Immigration Forum

50 F Street NW, Suite 300

Washington, DC 20001

www.immigrationforum.org

 

Unsubscribe from Noorani's Notes
or opt-out from all Forum emails.

 

                                               
           
_________________

Sent to [email protected]

Unsubscribe:
[link removed]

National Immigration Forum, 50 F Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20001, United States