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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data published
Tuesday reveal that while immigration arrests and detentions along
the U.S.-Mexico border rose slightly in April to 178,622 - the highest
one-month total in two decades
 - unaccompanied
minors made up less than 10% of total encounters in April,
reports Nick Miroff of The Washington Post
.  

Here's a breakdown
 of
the CBP data, with help from my colleague Danilo Zak. Bottom
line: The total number of border arrests is significantly inflated by
repeat crossings, and the vast majority of single
adults encountered at the border are being immediately returned
via Title 42. DHS should continue deploying the necessary
infrastructure and personnel to manage the situation and implement a
process for people to go through.  

Your must-see livestream
 today
is the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety
hearing regarding the desirability of the Citizenship for Essential
Workers Act at 2:30 p.m. ET. Our friend Doug Holtz-Eakin of the
American Action Forum is testifying. AAF just launched "Immigration
Opportunity: Facts, Myths and Reforms
," which
digs into four topics: The U.S. Growth Problem, Debunking Immigration
Myths, Economic Benefits of Immigration, and Pro-Growth Immigration
Reform. 

Welcome to the International Nurses Day
 edition of
Noorani's Notes. Our immigrant health worker infographic
 shows
how immigrants in this sector, including nurses, have been critical to
the COVID-19 response. If you have a story to share from your own
community, please send it to me at [email protected]
.    

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**UNACCOMPANIED MINORS** - Five young girls from Honduras, including
a toddler and an infant, were found alone near the South
Texas border on Sunday, reports Tim Stelloh of NBC News
.
"It is heartbreaking to find such small children fending for themselves
in the middle of nowhere," said Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Austin
L. Skero. Moreover, it underscores the need for humane, compassionate
solutions that help pair unaccompanied minors with sponsors as quickly
as possible. As of Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro
Mayorkas said a total of 700 children were in Border Patrol custody,
down from a record of nearly 6,000 in March. 

**BIPARTISANSHIP** - 29 Democrats and four Republicans in the
Arizona House of Representatives voted in favor of Senate Concurrent
Resolution 1044, which will give voters an opportunity next year to
repeal parts of a 2006 law banning in-state tuition for
undocumented students, Laura Gómez reports for the Arizona Mirror
. "We
need more educated youth to become tomorrow's teachers, health care
workers, lawyers, engineers and a host of other occupations, especially
if we want to continue to lower taxes," said state Rep. Michelle Udall
(R-Mesa). For more on this win in the House, read Elvia Díaz'
piece in the Arizona Republic
 [paywall] on
how Reyna Montoya, a DACA recipient and founder and CEO of Aliento
, got the Republican-controlled Arizona
legislature to support Dreamers.    

**CONGRESSIONAL LETTER** - A coalition of more than 20
organizations, led by The George W. Bush Institute
and comprised of conservative,
business, and religious refugee groups, published a letter calling
on Congress to pass immigration reform,
reports Rebecca Beitsch of The Hill
. The current situation
at the border "is not new, nor is it political: we have seen similar
numbers at the border before, and, without meaningful bipartisan action,
we will see them again," the letter
 reads.  

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**2,500 MILES** - For 11-year-old Melissa, reuniting with her
mother on April 2 "marked the end of a 2,500-mile journey that began
in Guatemala in February, progressed over land through Mexico and then
ended in a hazardous raft trip across the Rio Grande into
Texas," reports Miriam Jordan of The New York Times
 with photos
by Mark Abramson. Nearly 7 years after Melissa's
mother, Ana Parades, emigrated to the U.S. to find work, the two
were finally able to hug again. Over the past six months alone,
"nearly 50,000 migrant children like Melissa have crossed the
southwestern border on their own
, an extraordinary
new wave of immigration
 that
has left authorities scrambling to open shelters
 and
locate family members in the United States." And yet the
journey isn't over: "Like other unaccompanied minors entering
illegally, Melissa has been placed in removal proceedings. Her family
hopes she will win a reprieve." 

**CANADA** - In an op-ed for Fortune
, Mark
Glanville, co-author of Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global
Politics  and an associate
professor at Regent College, makes a case for why the Biden
administration should follow Canada's lead when it comes to admitting
more refugees. In 2015, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised
to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees fleeing civil war - and later
surpassed his goal, resettling a total of 25,555
. "To
put some of these numbers into perspective, if the U.S., with its far
larger population, were to resettle as many refugees per capita as
Canada, it would be welcoming more than 565,000 refugees per year," he
writes. " ... And if he needs advice on how to make that happen, he
should call up Justin Trudeau."  

**MISSISSIPPI DELTA** - BuzzFeed News
'
Kate Bubacz spoke to photographer Emanuel Hahn
 about the singular oral history
 project he launched
with Andrew Kung  in 2018
to showcase Asian American communities in the Mississippi
Delta. The nearly 20 people they interviewed for the project
include fourth-generation farmers and grocery store owners. "We
appreciated the fact that Asian Americans come from so many different
countries, so many different backgrounds, and through circumstance and
through whatever historical reason they're placed in different parts of
the U.S.," Hahn said. "We just wanted to tell different stories." 

Thanks for reading, 

Ali 

 

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