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.

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