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Lots of news this morning... 

The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that the Biden
administration will resume "expedited removal" - which allows
officials to deport individuals without
an immigration hearing - of some migrant families at the
U.S.-Mexico border, reports Priscilla Alvarez of CNN
.  

The Biden administration, however, says its approach will be different
to that of previous administrations: "A Homeland Security official
previously stressed to CNN that the key difference now is that families
will have early and ample access to legal representation and judges will
not be subject to strict time constraints." Let's see.  

In other Monday news, Attorney General Merrick Garland
overturned a Trump-era immigration court precedent that made it more
difficult for asylum seekers to win relief on appeal, Law360
 reports.
Garland's decision
 "restore[s]
immigration judges' discretion not to review stipulated material so
they can focus on contested issues."  

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**ALL THINGS RECONCILIATION** - 84 mayors from across the
country have signed a letter calling on the Biden administration
and Congress to include immigration provisions in the
budget package to be passed through reconciliation, The Hill
's
Rafael Bernal reports. Meanwhile, UnidosUS
 President and Chief Executive
Janet Murguía and Defending Democracy Together
 Director Bill
Kristol make the case for reform-via-reconciliation in a Washington
Post
 op-ed,
laying out how a path to legalization meets the criteria needed for a
measure to be considered under reconciliation - and why legalization
is critical. As talks of budget reconciliation as a path to immigration
reform gain momentum, our policy team has put together a helpful
explainer
. 

**DEMOGRAPHICS** - The pandemic has further slowed America's
already weak population growth, report Janet
Adamy and Anthony DeBarros of The Wall Street Journal
 -
and without a demographic boost, experts warn this could be a serious
blow to economic growth. "The economy of the developed world for the
last two centuries now has been built on demographic expansion," said
Richard Jackson, president of the Global Aging Institute
. "We no longer have this
long-term economic and geopolitical advantage." So where do we go from
here? "The big wild card is going to be what happens with
immigration," said American Enterprise Institute
 researcher Nicholas Eberstadt.  As my
colleague Danilo Zak and I laid out, America has Room to Grow
. 

**BORDER FORENSICS** - Amid an increase in migration and deaths
along the U.S.-Mexico border, the U.S. Border Patrol has evolved its
approach to rescuing missing migrants or identifying remains,
reports Molly Hennessy-Fiske of the Los Angeles Times
. The
agency has installed more than 1,400 rescue signs and
30 solar-powered rescue beacons in remote areas
to help locate stranded migrants quicker. Some agents have
also been trained to help identify remains. "Never thought I'd be
doing this, the forensic side of it, the compassion," said Agent Jerry
Passement while searching for the body of 25-year-old Honduran Yoel
Nieto Valladares. "It's a puzzle we've got to try to put
together." 

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**SEARCHING FOR FAMILIES** - A motorcycle-riding Guatemalan lawyer
named Pop is among the handful of searchers trying to locate parents
separated from their children and "deported alone to some of the
farthest-flung corners of Central America" under the Trump
administration, Kevin Sieff of The Washington Post
 reports. Under
the Biden administration, reunification efforts
 are often
left up to small civil society organizations and individuals like Pop.
"Every search is a little different," Pop said. "Did the family move?
Are they hiding? Did the parent try again for the United States?
Sometimes you knock on the door and there's no one there. ... We
know some migrants have their rights violated, some are separated from
their children. Our organization focuses on ensuring the rights of
migrants." 

**'THE DAY I CAN GO BACK**' - Earlier this month the Biden
administration announced that it would begin assisting deported
veterans and their immediate family members in returning to the
U.S. - but "deciding who qualifies for readmission could prove
thorny," Miriam Jordan writes in The New York Times
. Some deported veterans have committed
serious crimes, Jordan points out, and it's unclear if everyone will
be allowed to return. "I have always just been waiting for the day I
can go back," said Alex Murillo, a U.S. Navy veteran who grew up in
Arizona but was deported to Mexico following drug violations. He
currently works at a call center in Tijuana by day and coaches youth
football by night. "Everything I do here is positive, but I want to be
home with my family." Robert Vivar, co-director of the Unified U.S.
Deported Veterans Resource Center ,
estimates there are currently at least 1,000 military deportees living
in some 40 countries. 

**LUIS** - Long-distance runner Luis Grijalva is a recent
graduate of Northern Arizona State University who qualified
to represent his birth country of Guatemala in this year's
Olympics. He's also a DACA recipient - and because of his
immigration status, it was unclear whether he'd be able to travel to
Tokyo to compete, Dan Casarez reported in the Visalia Times-Delta
 last
week. But after several hours on Monday, Grijalva got
special permission from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to
leave the country, The New York Times
'
Kellen Browning reports. "It's just a lot of emotions - excitement,
just really happy," said Grijalva. "Excited to run at the games and
represent Guatemala, but also to leave the country and know I can return
to the country safely." 

Thanks for reading, 

Ali

 

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