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NOORANI'S NOTES

 

Refugee organizations are calling on Silicon Valley to "leverage the
technology they've created" to help resettled Afghans develop their
careers in the U.S., Musadiq Bidar reports for CBS News
. 

"People that were working professionals in Afghanistan, to come here and
not have a professional job hurts a lot," said Nawa Arsala Lodin,
associate board chair at Women for Afghan Women
. "It's the same cycle of refugees
coming to America that are doctors and professors and they can't find
professional work." 

As NPR
's
Andrea Hsu points out, many Afghans arriving in the U.S. end up in
low-wage jobs despite high levels of professional skills and
education - "a missed opportunity for both workers and employers." 

Welcome to Friday'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]
. And here is this morning's
sampling of important local stories of support: 

* More than 100 Ohio lawyers have volunteered to help Afghans at risk
come to the U.S. (Yilun Cheng, The Columbus Dispatch
)  

* Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City will be
welcoming 1,800 Afghan evacuees soon. (Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News
Service
) 

* The Appleton, Wisconsin, City Council passed a resolution
to expedite aid for Afghan refugees. (Jason Zimmerman, WBAY-TV
) 

* "These evacuees are our allies and have supported our country for
years, and it is our turn to return the favor," said
 Connecticut
Gov. Ned Lamont (D), whose state is set to welcome around 300 refugees.
"Connecticut has a legacy of being there for those in need, and we are
proud to answer the call." (NBC Connecticut
)

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BORDER NUMBERS - Authorities stopped fewer migrants at the border
in August than in July, per U.S. Customs and Border Protection data
 released
Wednesday, but numbers topped 200,000 for the second consecutive
month, reports Nick Miroff of The Washington Post
. The
data show that among all encounters, 44% were expelled under Title 42,
a percentage that remained relatively stable since July. (More on
Title 42 below.) Fewer single adults crossed in August and the number
of unaccompanied children dropped slightly, while the number of family
units increased. While the overall numbers remain near record
highs, they continue to be inflated by high recidivism rates. 

TITLE 42 - Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for D.C.
ruled Thursday that the Biden administration cannot expel migrant
families with children using Title 42, reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez
of CBS News
. The
judge gave the administration two weeks to change how it uses Title
42. According to government data, in August, U.S. authorities along
the southern border expelled 16,200 parents and children traveling as
families under the policy. "We hope the Biden administration has no
plans to appeal and continue to place families in grave
danger," Lee Gelernt, the ACLU lawyer leading the legal challenge
against the expulsions, told CBS News. 

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HAITIAN MIGRANTS - Thousands of Haitian migrants await under a
bridge in South Texas after crossing the Rio Grande, "creating a
humanitarian emergency and a logistical challenge U.S. agents describe
as unprecedented," Arelis R.
Hernández and Nick Miroff report for The Washington Post
.
Per CBP's latest data
, more than
29,000 Haitians have arrived over the past 11 months. "They have
trekked through the jungles of Panama's Darien Gap, navigated migrant
camps and criminal gangs in Central America, and dodged border guards
and troops along the highways of southern
Mexico," Hernández and Miroff write. Said migrant
Wendy Guillaumetre, 31, "I see brave people who instead of being
trapped by conformity chose to find a better life. Conditions are too
hard in Haiti." 

DEPORTATION PRIORITIES - On Wednesday, a federal appeals
court "allowed the Biden administration's selective criteria on who
should be deported to remain in effect, rejecting one of Texas'
challenges to the president's immigration policies,"
reports the Associated Press
. The interim enforcement
criteria follow a "deep-rooted tradition of enforcement discretion
when it comes to decisions that occur before detention, such as who
should be subject to arrest, detainers, and removal proceedings," wrote
Circuit Judge Gregg Costa. Final deportation priorities, which the
Biden administration may unveil as early as this month, are expected to
be "a sharp departure from those of Trump, who made everyone in the
country illegally a priority for deportation." 

BORDER MYTHS - Poor policy decisions by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
(R) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) are prolonging the coronavirus
pandemic, and their blame on migrants is
misplaced, Randa Tawil, an assistant professor at Texas Christian
University, writes in The Washington Post
. It's an
old tactic: "governments have long used the threat of disease as an
opportunity to surveil and police migrants, while continuing
business unencumbered by restrictions,"
Tawil notes. "... Particularly now, as the arrivals of Afghan
refugees are sure to provoke calls for immigration restriction,
immigrants should not take the fall for bad policy. The sources of our
troubles are right in front of us, not at our
borders." Elsewhere, Jean Guerrero of The Los Angeles Times
 writes
that none other than QAnon is attempting to advance a "border
variant" conspiracy theory. "We must recognize the threat
their disinformation poses to our democracy and work to stop its viral
spread," she concludes. 

Thanks for reading, 

Joanna

 

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