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Today in The New York Times
: More
than 90 of the nation's largest businesses in the Coalition for the
American Dream  sent
a letter
 to
President Biden and Congress to swiftly pass legislation
to provide Dreamers a long overdue pathway to citizenship. 

"Bills like the Dream and Promise Act or DREAM Act are commonsense
solutions with broad bipartisan support; the overwhelming majority of
voters on both sides of the aisle agree that Dreamers should be allowed
to remain in the U.S.," the letter reads.  

While the letter steered clear of reconciliation
, "Democrats
in Congress are pushing to include the provision on Dreamers in a $3.5
trillion budget resolution," per Bloomberg's
 Jordan
Fabian. 

Along these lines, at 

**5:30 p.m. today** I'll be talking with Bill Kristol, Director
of Defending Democracy Together
, via Facebook Live
 to
discuss budget reconciliation and what it could mean for immigration
reform. RSVP here
, and
check out our policy team's explainer
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Welcome to Thursday'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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**ROOT CAUSES** - The Biden administration has published
their strategy
 to
address the root causes of migration in Central America, along with
a fact sheet
 and readout
of their background press briefing
. My
take: Addressing root causes of Central American migration is critical
to securing our border and treating migrants with dignity. This is a
complicated problem that requires a long-term, multilateral
commitment to solutions.  

**RELEASED **- Some 50,000 migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico
border unauthorized have now been released in the U.S. without a court
date, reports Stef W. Kight of Axios
.
Instead, migrants have been "given a list of addresses and contacts for
[Immigration and Customs Enforcement] offices across the country and
told to report to one of them." About a third of the migrants have yet
to check in and have passed the 60-day reporting window they were given,
notes Kight. Regardless, "it's unprecedented
 for
agents to release migrants without an official notice to appear in
court."  

**MIGRANT CHILDREN** - According to a new whistleblower complaint
 filed
Wednesday - the second one from the Fort Bliss shelter for
unaccompanied migrant children in less than a
month - children were held in overcrowded conditions without
adequate masks, resulting in a COVID-19 outbreak, report Adolfo
Flores and Hamed Aleaziz of BuzzFeed News
. "Gross
mismanagement, waste, and abuse of authority by those at the top who
insisted on utmost secrecy led to conditions for thousands of children
at Fort Bliss that can only be described as constituting mistreatment,"
said one of the whistleblowers, Arthur Pearlstein, who was part of the
mental health team at Fort Bliss. 

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**DEPORTATION CASES **- Under new Biden administration guidance
 announced
in May, more than 100,000 immigrants who pose little threat to public
safety could have their deportation cases dropped - but only at the
discretion of prosecutors, reports Dara Lind of ProPublica
.
A ProPublica survey of more than a dozen lawyers across the
country, in addition to a review of documents from local Immigration
and Customs Enforcement offices, "shows that implementation of that
guidance has been spotty, with many prosecutors proceeding with exactly
the sorts of deportation cases the new rules are intended to
prevent. ... With no way to understand the rulings or ask for a
review, immigrants and their lawyers say, the program can look a lot
like arbitrariness." Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is
slated to provide final guidance in August or September, but until
then, deportation orders continue. 

**CHILDCARE ENTREPRENEURS**- More than 70 Houston childcare
businesses have been created under a free childcare entrepreneurship
program provided by Houston refugee organization The Alliance,
Elizabeth Trovall
reports for
Marketplace
 - and a
majority were launched by refugee and immigrant women. In addition to
helping women launch their own businesses, the program also provides
underserved communities with access to affordable childcare so other
mothers can have the opportunity to work, said program leader Earlene
Leverett. This type of program is especially critical now as 1.8
million women
 remain out
of the labor force. "In Texas, one of the hardest-hit states by this
phenomenon, there's now close to 180,000
 less childcare slots
compared to pre-pandemic times," said Ladan Ahmadi of nonprofit think
tank Third Way
. Trovall originally reported this story
in Houston Public Media
. 

**LOST GREEN CARDS?** - "Without drastic revisions in the glacial
processing times, President Biden will have presided over one of the
largest cuts to legal immigration in U.S. history,"  Cato
Institute research fellow David J. Bier writes in an op-ed
for The Washington Post
.  The
Biden administration "has processed green card applications at such a
slow pace that it will come at least 100,000 slots short of using up the
annual limit," Bier points out, noting that if these additional slots
aren't used by end of this fiscal year in September, they're
gone forever. "Unless there is a change of heart soon, Biden will
assume responsibility for denying thousands of immigrants the path to
citizenship that Congress promised them." 

Thanks for reading, 

Ali

 

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