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NOORANI'S NOTES

 

Hundreds of migrants, many of them unaccompanied children, have
been found near the southern border in Arizona this year after
being exploited by smugglers, reports Matthew Impelli of Newsweek
. 

"Large groups of mostly children continue to be exploited by smugglers
who leave them at the border for agents to encounter," Sabri
Y. Dikman, acting chief patrol agent of the Border Patrol's Tucson
Sector, said in a tweet
.  

From October 2020 through August, authorities
have encountered more than 133,000 unaccompanied minors at the
border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. 

Meanwhile, in an interview with 60 Minutes
 correspondent
Sharyn Alfonsi, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro
Mayorkas "condemned the Trump administration for not maintaining
adequate records of children separated from their parents during its
zero-tolerance immigration policy," writes Keith Zubrow.  

"It's a marriage of cruelty and shambles of organizational work,"
Mayorkas said. 

We are two weeks away from our Leading the Way
 gathering Oct.
25-26, where we'll bring together speakers from a variety of
backgrounds who will engage in critical conversations about what the
future holds for our immigration system. Register for the
free virtual event here
. 

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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REFUGEE ADMISSIONS CAPS - The numbers are official. Late Friday,
President Biden followed through on his intent to raise the
refugee cap to 125,000 for fiscal year 2022, Rebecca Morin of USA
Today reports
. It's a
worthy goal that would help restore U.S. leadership, but it will
require rebuilding the resettlement pipeline, as is clear from another
official number: The U.S. admitted only 11,411 refugees in fiscal
year 2021, reports Annika Kim Constantino of CNBC
 -
the fewest admitted via the Refugee Act since it passed in 1980,
Constantino notes. "We are saddened but unsurprised by the record-low
admission figures," said Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, president and
CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (and a
speaker at Leading the Way
).  

SECURITY FRAMEWORK - Mexican and U.S. officials met Friday
to work on a new security framework, reports Mary Beth Sheridan
of The Washington Post
.
"It's time for a comprehensive approach to our security cooperation"
that emphasizes "not only strengthening law enforcement, but also public
health, the rule of law, inclusive economic opportunities," said U.S.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken. In a separate meeting
with Blinken and other top officials, Mexican President Andrés
Manuel López Obrador "urged the United States to commit more to
development programs in Central America to deter migration." The
meeting came as sources including government officials from the two
countries said that the migration of Haitians last month "was the
result of a well-organized effort by human smuggling organizations
facilitated through social media, and by Mexican authorities who either
looked the other way or were simply overwhelmed," reports Alfredo
Corchado of the Dallas Morning News
. 

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ENDLESS CYCLE - In an interactive feature for The Washington Post
,
Arelis R. Hernández and Whitney
Leaming detail Paulnick "Nicko" Archelus' journey from Haiti to
the U.S. - and his cycle back and forth across the Mexican
border. Nicko had earned a civil engineering degree in Haiti,
but with no jobs available after Haiti's devasting earthquake in
2010, he was among thousands who left for South America. The story of
his eventual journey to the U.S. is gripping - so 
please make time to watch the incredibly powerful interviews.  

'NO TIME TO SPARE' - Members of Congress are working behind the
scenes, pushing for the U.S. to help rescue Afghan relatives of active
U.S. service members, reports Catie Edmondson of The New York Times
.
Meanwhile, small nonprofits in the D.C. area such as Homes Not Borders
are helping resettle Afghan refugees at an accelerated pace but
say they need more support, reports Nicole Asbury of The Washington
Post
. And in
an op-ed for Newsweek
,
mayors Erias Lukwago of Kampala, Uganda and Marvin Rees of Bristol,
U.K., of the Mayors Migration Council
 write: "We have no time
to spare: funders, national governments and cities need to work
together to build a network of policies and structures that are
resilient to the shocks that push people around our planet." 

Here's today's roundup of local stories: 

* Local aid organizations are seeing an outpouring of support and
donations for Afghans, sometimes beyond their capacity to store items.
In Illinois, volunteers at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Warrenville,
including Wheaton College professor Amy Treier, are helping
evangelical resettlement organization World Relief. (Emily McFarlan
Miller, Religion News Service
)  

* Volunteers from Team Rubicon, an international nongovernmental
organization founded by two Marine veterans, are helping Afghan evacuees
get settled at seven military bases in six states - including about
500 volunteers registered to help at Camp Atterbury in Indiana. (Leeann
Doerflein, Daily Journal
)  

* A campus wide toy drive at the University of Wisconsin-La
Crosse resulted in more than 400 toys going to Afghan
children temporarily housed at Fort McCoy. (La Crosse Tribune
) 

* Volunteers with Food on the Move, which addresses food insecurity in
the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area, are providing welcome baskets
of meals and groceries to Afghan refugees resettling in the
community. (Cal Day, News on 6
) 

Thanks for reading, 

Ali 

 

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