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Pandemic-related disruptions have led to a world "stricken by scarcity,"
writes New York Times
 columnist
Farhad Manjoo. But there's one shortage in particular that should
concern us: "The world may be running low on Americans." 

The latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau point to a slowing
population growth, and this demographic stagnation could bring "a
steady reduction in dynamism
, productivity
 and
a slowdown in national and individual prosperity, even a diminishment of
global power." 

The solution? Immigration. 

Pointing to our February report
 on
immigration level-setting, Manjoo makes the case that "to stave off the
worst effects of slowing growth, we don't need to smash open the
borders and let in the whole world. All we have to do is become the
same welcoming nation we once were." 

"Growth is not just an option but a necessity - it's not just that
we can afford to have more people, it may be that we can't afford not
to."  

Welcome to Thursday'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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**REUNIFICATION** - According to a Wednesday court filing, lawyers
have found the parents of 54 more migrant children who were separated
from their families under Trump's "zero-tolerance" policy, Julia
Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff report for NBC News
. The
parents of 391 children have yet to be contacted, down from 445 in
April. The pro bono lawyers tasked with locating them "say the parents
of 227 of those children have been deported, 100 are somewhere in the
U.S. and 14 have no contact information that the government has
provided." The family reunification task force established by the Biden
administration estimates approximately 1,000 families remain
separated. 

**DIVIDING LINE** - For The Washington Post,
 Michael
Robinson Chavez and Mary Beth Sheridan produced a
powerful interactive story that paints a picture of the
realities at the U.S.-Mexico border - for both the Biden
administration and for Central American migrants. The project
features striking photos capturing migrants' journeys north, 
overlayed with quotes from migrants, officials and others. Pastor Juan
Fierro, who runs the Good Samaritan shelter in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico,
said that migrants "are moving from one border crossing to another,
thinking that at this spot they can pass. People don't realize it,
that they're sending them back here ... they think that they've
gotten into the United States. And when they are least aware, suddenly
they're back in Mexico again." 

**MPP** - On Tuesday, the attorneys general of Texas, Missouri,
and Arizona urged the Supreme Court to let them resume 
Trump's Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), a.k.a. the "Remain in
Mexico" policy, per Law360
. They
allege the rollback of MPP under Biden has caused an "explosion"
of crime and violence, largely citing news articles rather
than any studies or statistics to support their
claims. Karen Musalo, director of University of California, Hastings
College of the Law's Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, points out
that MPP itself "has led to the return of thousands of vulnerable asylum
seekers to some of the most dangerous cities in Mexico where they have
been beaten, raped, tortured and killed."  

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**HAITI** - Amid intensifying political upheaval in Haiti, advocates
in the U.S. are calling for the renewal of Temporary Protected Status
 (TPS)
for tens of thousands of Haitians, reports Rafael Bernal of The Hill
. On
the bipartisan front, earlier this month Senate Foreign Relations
Committee members Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) and Marco
Rubio (R-Florida) signed a letter
  asking
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to sign the
redesignation for Haitian TPS. (Friendly reminder that TPS
recipients are contributing to communities across the country
.) 

**SOUTH DAKOTA** - Leaders from South Dakota's business and
agriculture sectors met for a virtual roundtable Wednesday to discuss
the critical need for immigration reform to address labor
shortages, Rebekah Tuchscherer reports for the Sioux Falls Argus
Leader
. Official statistics
put South Dakota's unemployment rate
 at 2.9%,
the lowest since March 2020. "We need immigration reform to continue
filling those essential jobs, those hard jobs, with documented workers
who are willing to work," said Kari Karst, CEO of BX Civil and
Consruction. Participants pointed to bills like
the Dream Act and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act as ways to
help fill job openings across the state. Karen Benitez-Lopez, a
preschool teacher and DACA recipient whose op-ed
 we
noted earlier this week, also spoke at the event.  

**MOROCCO** - On the front page of this morning's 
Los Angeles Times
 is
a picture of a member of Spain's Civil Guard rescuing a baby from
the sea after they were separated from their migrant parents. Karl
Ritter breaks down the situation for the Associated Press
: About
"8,000 people, including 2,000 believed to be minors," traveled by land
or sea from Morocco to Ceuta, a Spanish enclave "separated from Morocco
by double 32-foot fences." Spain claims they are not pushing back
unaccompanied children, but the military has been deployed and the EU
watches nervously. Unsurprisingly, migrants may be political pawns in a
larger game - Ritter writes that Morocco may have relaxed border
controls because of a diplomatic spat with Spain: "Two Moroccan
officials made that link explicit in public comments Wednesday." 

Thanks for reading, 

Ali 

 

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