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Over the weekend, the Biden administration announced it is granting
Haiti a new 18-month designation of Temporary Protected Status
 (TPS),
reports Jacqueline Charles of the Miami Herald
. 

Starting Friday, TPS will be extended to eligible Haitians living in
the U.S, including more than 60,000 Haitians who already had TPS but
had been living under fear of deportation following Trump's attempt
to end the program
. 

"Haiti is currently experiencing serious security concerns
,
social unrest, an increase in human rights abuses, crippling poverty,
and lack of basic resources, which are exacerbated by the Covid-19
pandemic
," said Department
of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. "After careful
consideration, we determined that we must do what we can to support
Haitian nationals in the United States until conditions in Haiti improve
so they may safely return home." 

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**SECURE ACT** - Senate Republicans - in particular, Florida's
Marco Rubio and Rick Scott - should join Democrats in support of the
recently reintroduced SECURE Act
 as "a
sensible way of giving clarity and peace of mind to [TPS] recipients
whose lives in the United States are in limbo," writes
J.P. Carroll, former deputy director of Hispanic Media at
the Republican National Committee, in an op-ed for The Hill
. Among
those who would benefit from a permanent  solution like the SECURE
Act are the more than 300,000 Venezuelans
 who qualify
for TPS, most of whom live in
South Florida. Carroll also points to Rubio and Scott's "support
for the restoration of democracy in Venezuela
 and
putting an end to the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro.
" The
U.S. "must continue to make clear that it opposes the humanitarian
crisis that the [Maduro] regime's policies have caused," Carroll
concludes. "Supporting this legislation is both good politics and good
policy, and the very best of both always benefit from bipartisanship." 

**TITLE 42 FAMILIES** - After 18 months living in Nogales,
Mexico, fearing the country's cartels would continue to target them,
Selene Sanchez Maldonado, her husband Erick Martinez Campos, and
three children are finally being processed to enter the U.S. and
apply for asylum, reports Rafael Carranza of the Arizona Republic
. They're
among the "nearly 2,000 migrants that U.S. Customs and Border
Protection has quietly processed and paroled into the United States
under negotiated 'humanitarian exemptions' to Title 42 for families
and individuals in vulnerable situations." Much of the processing work
is being done by nonprofits, who face the challenge of instituting a
fair process: "We're involved because we think that at least some
people gaining access to safety is marginally better than nobody. But it
does put organizations in a complicated position ... without having
access to the kind of oversight and reach that the government
does," said Joanna Williams,  director of the binational migrant aid
group Kino Border Initiative
. Meanwhile, Politico
 reports
that Vice President Kamala Harris is looking to collaborate
with Guatemala to address root causes of migration. 

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**FAMILY UNITY** - A belief in family unity should include caring
for unaccompanied migrant children, writes Mario
E. Dorsonville, auxiliary bishop of Washington and the chairman of
the Committee on Migration for the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops, in America: The Jesuit Review
. Calling
for both a more humane asylum system and broader immigration reform,
Bishop Dorsonville points to the work of Catholic groups in
Texas responding to the humanitarian crisis at the
border - and underscores the commitment of bishops across the
U.S. to care for migrants: "We will continue to respond to their
plight by promoting a Christ-inspired response to welcome and protect
those who are in need, and by supporting measures that aim to mitigate
the poverty, violence and corruption that push families to migrate in
the first place." 

**RESTITUTION** - More than 5,000 evangelical Christians
from across all 50 states have joined a call for restitution-based
immigration reform
, reports
Mark Wingfield of Baptist News Global
. The proposal,
spearheaded by the Evangelical Immigration Table
, urges elected
officials to allow  undocumented immigrants to earn lawful permanent
resident status after paying a fine as restitution for their
violation of U.S. immigration law. "Recognizing that past attempts to
solve this growing national dilemma have failed, only causing more
division and suspicion in our country, we support solutions that
encompass the following goals and that honor the rule of law while
addressing the economic, moral, humanitarian and security issues arising
from this problem in a fair way," the proposal reads. 

**UK REFORM** - U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel is set to announce a
"wholesale" reform of the nation's immigration system today,
reports Bloomberg's
 David
Goodman. Patel "is set to introduce work routes, a suspension of the
cap on the number of skilled workers who can come to the U.K., and free
visa extensions for key healthcare workers and their dependents. She
will also pledge to fix an asylum system that she says costs more than 1
billion pounds ($1.4 billion)." I'll be chatting about this and
other immigration developments with London-based U.S. immigration
attorney Nita Nicole Upadhye for the University of California Trust
(UK), tomorrow at 2:00 PM ET
.  

Thanks for reading, 

Ali 

 

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