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According to a new Gallup poll
 published
Friday, Americans remain divided on whether to increase immigration
levels, Jordan Williams reports for The Hill
. Gallup
found that 50% of Democrats supported increased immigration levels,
compared to 34% of independents and 10% of Republicans. On the flip
side, 57% of Republicans want to see immigration decreased, compared
with 29% of independents and 12% of Democrats.  

Part of this divide stems
from the inflammatory anti-immigrant rhetoric used by the GOP for
decades, which is currently being used to
criticize President Biden's handling of the border and invoke fear
of demographic change, reports Jazmine Ulloa of the Boston Globe
.  

Later today, President Biden is set to address UnidosUS's annual
conference. As I told NPR's
 Franco
Ordoñez, "This has to be a speech to suburban families, to rural
families ... who are asking questions of, 'OK, as a nation, are we
going to be safe and secure under the Biden administration? And are we
going to be able to treat the immigrants who I've come to know and love
through church, through work, through school - are we going to treat
them compassionately?'" 

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**'BE COURAGEOUS' **- With permanent solutions for Dreamers
 on
the table, Congress "now has an opportunity to be courageous by
addressing immigration in a comprehensive and productive way that will
provide long-desired relief for those already living as
Americans," Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory said at a Capitol
Hill media event Wednesday. Gregory joined "immigrants, agriculture
and business representatives and two U.S. senators in calling for
legislative protections for immigrants that keep families together,
including a pathway to citizenship," reports Patricia Zapor
of Catholic News Service
. Mya
Jaradat at Deseret News
 reports
on growing pressure from faith groups calling on Congress to pass
immigration reform: "I'm a follower of Jesus who believes that
everyone should have an opportunity to flourish and the Bible is very
clear that welcoming the stranger and extending hospitality is a mandate
of our faith," said Tess Clarke, director of We Welcome Refugees
. "Ours is a moral stance. It's
not a partisan stance. ... This isn't about political parties. This is
about people's lives," added the Rev. Gabriel Salguero, founder of
the National Latino Evangelical Coalition .  

**DREAMER INVESTMENT** - As a result of Judge Hanen's July
16 DACA ruling
, more than
70,000 first-time pending DACA applications are on hold, leaving
Dreamers in limbo. But America cannot afford to lose them, write
Minnesota immigrant and business advocates in an op-ed for
the Minneapolis Star Tribune
. "The
uncertainties facing Dreamers have ripple effects on our
communities," they write. "If DACA ends, our national economy would
lose an estimated $460.3 billion in GDP over the next decade. Minnesota
would lose $376.7 million in GDP annually." The best way to respond
to this ruling, they conclude, is with a permanent solution
in Congress: "It is now time for the Senate to use all available means
to pass the Dream and Promise Act, which invests in the future of
Dreamers, and us all." 

**VETERANS **- Marine veteran Ramon Castro is currently in
the middle of a 2,000-mile trek along the U.S.-Mexico border to shed
light on the plight of deported U.S. veterans, Jose
Gonzalez reports for Reuters
. According
to a Government Accountability Office report, some 250 veterans were
deported or placed in deportation proceedings between 2013 and
2018 - and advocates believe the total could be far higher. "Our
veterans are waiting and they need us," said Castro. "These are the
guys who put their butts on the line and we abandoned
them." A couple of days after Castro began his journey, the Biden
administration announced a new initiative
 to
assist deported American service members, veterans and their immediate
family members in returning to the U.S. 

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**HEALTH CARE** - California, Illinois and Oregon are among a
handful of Democratic-run states extending health insurance coverage
to undocumented adult immigrants, including seniors, reports Sophia
Tareen of the Associated Press
. A July
analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that about 46%
of undocumented immigrants under 65 don't have insurance, and
while data was not included for older immigrants, they are largely
ineligible for Medicare, Medicaid or Affordable Care Act
coverage. Tareen cites the limited eligibility - along with high
costs and fear of deportation - as some of the barriers to
health coverage for the undocumented. "Look at what immigrants do for
our economy," said Illinois House Speaker Emanuel "Chris"
Welch (D). "Including them in our health insurance, it keeps them
healthy and allows them to go to work and compete and be able to
contribute." 

**OLYMPIAN REFUGEES** - 29 stateless athletes are hoping to raise
awareness of the more than 80 million forcibly displaced people around
the world as part of the Refugee Olympic Team - the second refugee
team in history, Biwa Kwan reports for SBS World News
. The team
is "a message to the entire world to make the world aware of the
magnitude of this crisis," said International Olympic Committee
President Thomas Bach. "It's also a message that these forcibly
displaced people are an enrichment to all our societies and that we
should embrace them like we do in the Olympic Games, to show all our
unity in all our diversity."  

Thanks for reading, 

Ali

 

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