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NOORANI'S NOTES

 

According to the United Nations, more than $1 billion in aid has been
pledged for Afghanistan "as millions of people in the country could
soon run out of food and the economy is on the verge of
collapse," reports Helen Regan of CNN
.  

"The people of Afghanistan need a lifeline. After decades of war,
suffering and insecurity, they face perhaps their most perilous hour,"
said UN Secretary General António Guterres. Unless more is done to
support them, one million children are at risk of starvation
and death, The New York Times
 reports.  

And for tens of thousands of Afghan families admitted to the U.S.
on humanitarian parole, Elizabeth Trovall of The Houston Chronicle
 reports that
because they're not legally classified as
refugees, they'll "likely be excluded from receiving many public
benefits such as food stamps and cash assistance." Unless, that
is, Congress changes the law. For more, see our guide to the key
differences
 between
humanitarian parole, refugee status and Special Immigrant Visas
(SIVs).  

Despite all of this, communities across the country - and the world
- continue to exemplify welcome:

* Former Obama and Bush administration officials are
launching Welcome.US - a coalition
of refugee resettlement organizations, faith-based institutions, and major
businesses - to offer a "single point of entry" for Americans to
get involved in Afghan resettlement. (Rebecca Morin, USA Today
) 

* "Our Christian way of looking at others refuses to see them as a
burden or a problem, but rather as brothers and sisters to be helped and
protected," said Pope Francis after meeting Hungarian Prime Minister
Viktor Orbán, one of Europe's most anti-immigration
leaders. (Chris Livesay, CBS News
) 

* "Even though we may think we don't have a lot, we have an extra
bedroom, we have the means and the resources and the ability to help,"
said Kenneth Martinez, whose family opened their Washington home to a
recently arrived Afghan family. (Katie Kindelan, ABC News
) 

* The Orphan Grain Train  in Norfolk,
Nebraska, is working to help two Afghan families find homes and
employment. (Carolyn Conte, News Channel Nebraska
) 

* Columbus, Indiana-based Beloved Bags
 are supporting
displaced Afghan children housed at Camp Atterbury. 

* An Afghan family who fled during the Soviet invasion in
1980 and now own three D.C.-based restaurants has received an
outpouring of donations for Afghan refugees in
need. (Maya Pottiger, Washingtonian
) 

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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HUNGER AND MIGRATION - Addressing global hunger will help slow
migration to the U.S., said David Beasley, executive director of the
United Nations World Food Program ,
Jeff Brumley at Baptist News Global
 reports. "People
don't want to leave home. But if they don't have food for their
children or any degree of safety or security, they'll do what you
would do for your family - they'll go find it," said Beasley,
a former Republican governor of South Carolina.  

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - The Biden administration's family
reunification task force is expanding its effort to reunite families
who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under Trump's
"zero-tolerance" family separation policy, Ben Fox reports
for the Associated Press
. Meanwhile,
Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS News
 reports
that the administration will begin accepting new applications this week
for the Central American Minors (CAM) program "which U.S. officials have
portrayed as a safe and legal alternative to the often
dangerous trek migrant children
 undertake
to reach the southern border." 

BORDER DATA - Per data obtained by NBC News
,
the number of undocumented immigrants apprehended while trying to cross
the U.S.-Mexico border is down slightly compared to this time last
month. Julia Ainsley reports that the decrease "is largely due to
increased enforcement by Mexico along its southern border and newly
started flights from the U.S. that expel immigrants to Mexico and
Guatemala before they can claim asylum, according to one former and two
current senior Department of Homeland Security
officials." However, "Mexico may soon be reaching its capacity to stop
Central American migrants from crossing its border with Guatemala, as
well as reaching its capacity to receive those migrants sent back from
the U.S." 

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RECONCILIATION - Including immigration provisions in budget
reconciliation
 is Democrats' "best
and likely last chance this Congress to deliver immigration
reform," Marianne Levine and Sabrina Rodriguez write for Politico
. In
order to gain the parliamentarian's approval for such provisions,
they "essentially need to demonstrate that their proposal would have a
significant effect on federal spending, revenues or debt." Sen. Alex
Padilla (D-California) is making the case: "There's a lot of
applications, there's a lot of fees coming into the federal government
to be processed by federal employees ... so we think it's more than
appropriate." 

LABOR GAPS

** **- September is National Workforce Development Month, and
as The National Law Review
 writes,
manufacturers can leverage immigration to fill labor gaps and address
the prevailing skills shortage. "Historically, immigration has been a
key ingredient to economic growth and development and provided an
alternate source of labor to employers in need. Manufacturers can look
to immigration to supplement its existing workforce and fill the skills
gap, both for high-level professionals and skilled labor," they
write. "With this focus on innovation, our skilled workforce needs are
evolving ... In support of that, training programs need
to upskill workers in areas that make these technologies possible,"
per the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association
. 

Thanks for reading, 

Ali

 

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