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Dulce Garcia, a DACA recipient and immigration attorney, went back to
Mexico for the first time in 30 years in March, Kate Morrissey writes
for The San Diego Union-Tribune.
As executive director
of the nonprofit Border Angels , Garcia
was able to make the case to the U.S. government that she needed to
work in Tijuana. They agreed, granting her emergency permission to
leave for up to 60 days and return under the "advance parole"
program. 

But when she finally arrived, she was disheartened to see
the conditions at the tent camp of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico
border. "I'm already disillusioned. Mexico and America are both parts
of me. They're both failing. It's complete heartbreak." She added
that migrant shelters around Tijuana are full, and the camp at El
Chaparral Plaza has grown to more than 200 tents - an estimated 2,000
people.   

So, she got to work. "In her first days, she quickly installed portable
toilets at the tent camp. And she began to visit the wide range of
shelters that Border Angels supports through donations," among other
efforts. When it was time for Garcia to return to the U.S., she said:
"I still don't think I'm done. I'm leaving with the sense that
I'm leaving it incomplete. I could do more, and I want to do more." 

Something special: Paola Cepeda at KVEO
 highlights
a special message Pope Francis recorded for Sister Norma Pimentel,
thanking her and her team at Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande
Valley for their work with migrants.  

Welcome to Tuesday'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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**BORDER ROUTES **- Single adult migrants crossing the border made
up nearly two-thirds of Border Patrol encounters at the U.S.-Mexico
border in April. But as more migrants cross via
treacherous routes to avoid being caught and sent back to
Mexico, they face a greater risk of death, report Eugene Garcia and
Adriana Gomez Licon of the Associated Press
. "People
die here. People get lost. People are never heard of again. They go
missing," said Eduardo Canales, director of the South Texas Human
Rights Center . Some smugglers
leave migrants to walk long distances in the area, anywhere from 15 to
50 miles with temperatures sometimes above 100 degrees. While some 
migrants stranded in remote areas are able to make emergency calls
to aid groups like Canales', which then coordinate with local
officials or the Border Patrol on rescues, "[l]ocal officials are
expecting to find more bodies as summer nears, temperatures rise and
expulsions continue." 

**ROOT CAUSES** - As part of a series on immigration insights
from
the George W. Bush Institute, Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of
Homeland Security and Co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Chertoff
Group, discussed what it will take to address immigration reform while
simultaneously tackling border security: "We have to use all the tools
in the toolbox, and that means both creating a pathway for legitimate
migration, that gives us visibility and control over who comes in, as
well as toughening up the ability to prevent people from sneaking in
illegally." At 11:30 a.m. CT today
, the
series continues with a conversation featuring panelists from El
Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras breaking down the root causes of
migration and how the region can create a path to sustained economic
growth. 

**JUDGES **- Senate Judiciary Committee leaders on Monday sent a
letter urging Attorney General Merrick Garland "to recognize the
immigration judges' union and reverse the Trump administration's
efforts to dismantle it," Suzanne Monyak reports for Roll Call
. In
the letter, Committee Chairman Richard J. Durbin (D-Illinois) and
immigration subcommittee Chairman Alex Padilla (D-California) asked
Garland to restore independence for immigration judges after the Trump
administration sought to decertify the union. Speaking of immigration
courts, Border Report's
 Sandra
Sanchez writes that following a Biden administration memo last week,
advocates are "cautiously optimistic" that the legal
representation afforded in civil cases "could one day be extended to
immigration courts." 

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**ARIZONA DREAMERS** - There are five reasons why
extending in-state tuition to Dreamers benefits everyone in Arizona,
write state Sen. Paul Boyer (R) and Reyna Montoya, a DACA
recipient and founder & CEO of Aliento ,
in an op-ed for the Arizona Republic
. In
addition to helping keep local talent in the state, allowing Dreamers
to pay in-state tuition will boost the state's economy, they write
- and cement a solution that's popular statewide: A recent poll of
Arizona's registered voters found that 62% support in-state tuition
 for
Dreamers.  

**EMBROIDERY** - Harriet Kean at CNN
 tells
the story of Larissa von Planta, a sustainable
fashion designer previously based in Lebanon who moved
to London just two days before a devastating explosion
destroyed Beirut's city center last year. Compelled to help from the
U.K., von Planta contacted Meike Ziervogel, CEO of the
nonprofit Alsama , to set up a project to
collaborate with Syrian and Palestinian embroiderers in one of
Lebanon's refugee camps. "I wanted to provide work for these women,"
von Planta said. "I knew ... that the embroiderers had slumped into a
huge depression. They live such precarious lifestyles; they aren't
Lebanese citizens so there's a lot of instability. They can't go back to
their countries. I wanted to make sure work was coming in so they had
one less concern." Said Fatima Khalifa, who
runs Alsama Studios: "Alsama is a surrogate family and gives the
women strength so they can inspire the next generation, their children,
to leave the camp one day." 

Thanks for reading, 

Ali 

 

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