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NOORANI'S NOTES

 

 

With the Taliban consolidating control in Afghanistan,
a bipartisan group of 46 senators urged the Biden administration on
Monday to create a specific humanitarian parole category
for certain at-risk Afghan women, including leaders, journalists
and others, Claire Hansen reports for U.S. News & World Report
. 

"We and our staff are receiving regular reports regarding the targeting,
threatening, kidnapping, torturing, and assassinations of women for
their work defending and promoting democracy, equality, higher
education, and human rights," the letter
 reads.  

"While we welcomed the expansion of the eligibility requirements for
Special Immigrant Visas and the creation of the Priority 2 category in
the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, we must also protect those women
who might fall through the cracks of the U.S. Government's
response." 

Prominent voices in faith and national security are also calling for
more action from the administration: The Evangelical Immigration Table
sent a letter
 yesterday
calling on the administration to assist Afghan allies and revitalize
the U.S. refugee resettlement program, Tom Strode reports for
the Baptist Press
. The
Council on National Security and Immigration (CNSI) issued a
statement yesterday calling for an immediate evacuation and safe
relocation of all Afghan allies.  

Welcome to Wednesday's edition of
Noorani's Notes. I'm Joanna Taylor, communications manager at
the Forum, filling in for Ali today. If you have a story to share from
your own community, please send it to me
at [email protected] .

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**ATDs **- DHS on Tuesday announced
 the
implementation of a new program that "relies on help from nonprofits
to track and offer more assistance" to migrants in the agency's
Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program, reports Sandra Sanchez of
the Border Report
. The ATD Case
Management Pilot Program will add to current ATD programs and expand
services to "provide voluntary case management and other counseling
services to noncitizens who are in immigration removal proceedings to
ensure they have access to legal aid and other necessary services to
make their claims to remain in the United States," Sanchez writes. "It
remains to be seen just how this new Alternatives to Detention approach
will work in practice, but it could be a step in the right direction,"
said Austin Kocher, a researcher with
Syracuse University's Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse
(TRAC ). 

**HAITI **- Members of Congress, Haitian Americans and other
advocates are calling on the Biden administration to extend
Haiti's Temporary Protected Status (TPS) eligibility deadline and
stop deportations following
Saturday's devastating earthquake, Alex Daugherty reports for
the Miami Herald
. DHS Secretary
Alejandro Mayorkas most recently expanded TPS for Haitians on
Aug. 3 following the assassination of President Jovenel
Moïse. It's currently available for Haitians living in the U.S. as
of July 29 and is in place until Feb. 3, 2023. Tessa
Petit, the Florida Immigrant Coalition's director of
operations, told Daugherty that expanding TPS is the least the
administration can do: "Now more than ever it will be impossible to
return them to a country that will not be able to give them support and
is unsafe for them." 

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CLIMATE MIGRANTS - The northeast corner of South America and the
majority of Central America are projected
 to become
even hotter and drier in the coming decades - and most countries lack
an adequate plan to address the migration that will follow, María
Paula Rubiano A. writes for Grist
. "We
know that climate change will increase disasters, and we know that these
disasters will merge with pre-existent vulnerabilities [like poverty]
and create a breeding soil for migrations," said Brazilian lawyer Erika
Pires Ramos, a co-founder of the South American Network for
Environmental Migrations. "And we can't keep thinking and planning to
act in 2030 0r 2040. ... with climate migration - well, we needed to
have acted by yesterday." 

'BUREAUCRATIC LIMBO' - 18-year-old Antonio was one of the
first migrants to be arrested under Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R)
order to lock up migrants accused of trespassing at the southern
border. And after prosecutors realized state police had separated him
from his father against orders to make the arrest, he also became one
of the first migrants to be released - but because Abbott's order
directs authorities to arrest migrants on state criminal charges rather
than referring them to federal immigration authorities, Antonio was
left in "bureaucratic limbo" living at the home of his
court-appointed attorney, Jolie McCullough reports in The Texas
Tribune
. "Once
Antonio was out of the prison, it quickly became clear that local, state
and federal officials had no idea what to do with him," McCullough
writes. Said Kate Huddleston, an attorney with the ACLU of
Texas: "What we see here is the state interfering in that [immigration
enforcement] process ... that now makes it difficult for someone seeking
asylum to go through the process as intended and move quickly out of the
border region."  

Thanks for reading,

Joanna

 

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