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NOORANI'S NOTES

 

According to unpublished preliminary data from U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) for fiscal year 2021, U.S. authorities detained more
than 1.7 million migrants along the Mexico border and arrests by the
Border Patrol soared to their highest levels since 1986,
Nick Miroff reports for The Washington Post
.  

During his confirmation hearing
 to
lead CBP yesterday, Tucson, Arizona, Police Chief Chris Magnus
described the border encounters as a "significant challenge." Still,
data shows that of the 1.7 million people detained in FY 2021,
61% were rapidly expelled under pandemic-era Title
42 restrictions - expulsions that have contributed to an increase in
repeat crossing attempts, Miroff notes. 

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a story to share from your own community, please send it to me
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MIGRATORY ACCORD - The Biden administration "is trying to enlist
South American countries to help halt a new wave of migration by
controlling the flow of migrants northward," report William
Mauldin and Michelle Hackman of The Wall Street Journal
. Secretary
of State Antony Blinken will meet with counterparts from Latin
American countries in Bogotá, Colombia, today to discuss the
initiative. "Overall, U.S. officials are eyeing a combination of
economic inducements, persuasive diplomatic efforts and public warnings
to help control the flow of migrants to the southern border," they
write. Dan Restrepo, former special assistant to President Obama for
Western Hemisphere affairs, is also proposing regional collaboration
to manage migration in The Dallas Morning News
. This
is the right approach.  

**AFGHAN ASSISTANCE** - A recently approved spending bill
 will
help to resettle an estimated 95,000 Afghan evacuees through
fiscal year 2022. But "[i]f we want Afghan immigrants and refugees to
integrate as successfully as possible, Congress must go a step further
and allow evacuees to be processed securely but quickly and,
ultimately, obtain lawful permanent residence," writes Monument
Advocacy's Stewart Verdery, a member of the Council on National
Security and Immigration (CNSI ), in an
op-ed for Roll Call
. "An
Afghan Adjustment Act would allow evacuees to adjust their status and
apply for lawful permanent residence after a certain amount of time in
the U.S. It would fulfill our humanitarian obligation to vulnerable
Afghans contending with an uncertain future. ... And it would help keep
us secure by speeding the integration of evacuees into American
society." Verdery also notes that the U.S. has passed similar
 measures
 before.  

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A GAMBLE - The San Francisco Chronicle
's Deepa
Fernandes and Tal Kopan tell the story of a judge and her husband, a
federal prosecutor, who are still stuck in Afghanistan, fearing
for their lives: "Because neither the judge nor the prosecutor worked
directly for the U.S. government, and because they didn't make it onto
one of the evacuation planes in the weeks after Kabul fell, their
options are limited - and their window is closing." And don't miss
Phillip Athey's incredible story for the Military Times
 about
a group of marines who helped Afghans evacuate - including Marine
Cpl. Jason Essazay's efforts to save his own family. 

Here's today's roundup of local support: 

* Sarasota, Florida-based Marine Corps. Capt. Bob Koenig, an
Afghanistan veteran, "started a 145-mile walk to raise awareness about
Afghan refugees and funds to help with the relocation of
[his interpreter's] family from Fort Bliss, Texas, to the
Sarasota area." (Earle Kimel, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
) 

* The University of Missouri received a $100,000 donation from the
Veterans United Foundation, which will be used for pre-evacuation and
evacuation costs for the immediate families of the
university's Afghan community. (Grace Nieland, Columbia Missourian
) 

* Dr. Helen Delfeld of Minneapolis is helping former Afghan students,
whom she taught in Bangladesh prior to COVID-19, obtain housing and
move off the military base they're currently living at. (Hannah
Flood, Fox 9
) 

* Safi Rauf, who immigrated to Omaha, Nebraska, in 2010 from a refugee
camp in Pakistan, put his studies at the University of Nebraska Medical
Center on hold to help with evacuation efforts. (Paul Hammel, Omaha
World-Herald
) 

BREXIT - Through Brexit and a new immigration plan, the United
Kingdom has been tightening the flow of immigrants. The Guardian
's Diane
Taylor picks up a new report from the Group of Experts on Action
against Trafficking in Human Beings
, which raises
concerns that the new plan "risks increasing the vulnerability of
victims of trafficking who are undocumented migrants, as they may be
reluctant to approach the authorities for fear of being prosecuted for
immigration-related offences." The report adds that Brexit
itself "has heightened the risk of exploitation for [European
Union] workers." 

Thanks for reading, 

Ali 

 

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