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NOORANI'S NOTES

 

 

House Democrats' latest spending bill draft includes immigration
provisions "that would give up to 10 years of work authorization for
undocumented people living in the U.S," on
Wednesday, Rebecca Beitsch reports in The Hill
.
The idea is to comply with Senate budgetary rules after the
Senate parliamentarian rejected two previous plans.  

The plan does include visa recapture, but it would not provide a
pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented people
already living in the U.S. "It instead relies on a process known as
parole to waive immigration requirements for five years for those who
have been living in the U.S. prior to 2011," notes Beitsch. "Once
approved, beneficiaries could apply for a five-year extension, allowing
them to stay in the country until the end of 2031." 

Welcome to Thursday'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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PAYMENTS - President Biden said that the U.S. will
not make payments to immigrant families separated by former
President Trump's zero tolerance policy, "throwing into doubt
settlements the Justice Department has been negotiating to resolve legal
claims," reports a team at the Wall Street Journal
. Anthony
D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union,
which is involved in the litigation, said that if he doesn't follow
through, "the president is abandoning a core campaign promise to do
justice for the thousands of separated families." Meanwhile, Priscilla
Alvarez at CNN
 reports
that the Biden administration has ended
the Trump-era "metering" policy that limited migrants' ability
to claim asylum at legal ports of entry, per a DHS memo released
Monday
.  

KAT PA KAT - Many Haitians - from business executives to
politicians - rely on Mackenson Rémy, a popular reporter also known
as Kat pa Kat, to get around Port-au-Prince's streets safely,
reports Monica Campbell for PRI's The World
. Because
the "state is largely absent in Haiti right now - especially after
President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in July," Rémy serves as the
liaison for information. "Police can't go to certain areas because
the gangs will shoot at them ... But Rémy can drive through with
permission," Campbell writes.  

'COMPLICATED REALITY' - Though public polling on immigration
"shows a strong shift to the left, survey responses in that vein mask a
far more complicated reality," Thomas B. Edsall opines in The New
York Times
. "As
a national issue immigration motivates anti-immigrant voters in a
single-minded way, but pro-immigration voters have a long list of
things they support. In that way it works for the right," explains Mary
C. Waters, a sociologist at Harvard. Americans "are more open to
immigration than either the left or the right assumes. But as soon as
the issue is framed around race, it can become more polarized. I don't
think liberals understand that as well as they
should," noted Waters, who is also chairman of the National Academy
of Sciences panel on the integration of immigrants into American
society.  

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CULTURE CONCERNS - On Tuesday we mentioned this year's American
Values Survey
 from
the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution.
In a column for the Wall Street Journal
,
William A. Galston notes that Republican voters are more concerned
about America "losing its culture and identity" than in previous
years, "but it's a bipartisan concern": A third of Democrats share
it. And while 62% of Republicans say that being born in the U.S. is part
of being "truly American," 43% of Democrats do as well. "Closing the
gap between the American civic creed and public social attitudes might
lower the heat-to-light ratio in politics," Galston concludes. 

'RUNNING DRY' - For Politico Magazine
, Erik
Edstrom, who was deployed to Afghanistan as an infantry officer, tells
the story of how he and a volunteer network of veterans helped get
his former translator, "Rock," and other Afghan allies out of the
country - several weeks after the U.S. withdrawal concluded. "Since
the official withdrawal of U.S. forces at the end of August, the work of
shepherding tens of thousands of Afghans out of the country has fallen
to groups like Task Force Argo , who
have tapped networks of private donors to fund an operation that was
left unfinished by the U.S. government," writes Edstrom.
From chartering an Airbus A340 to shelter and food, the costs have
been extremely high. "We are constantly at risk of running dry," said
"Duke," a veteran and member of the leadership team for Operation North
Star
. Side
note: Don't miss yesterday's important press call with national
security leaders on the vetting process for Afghan evacuees yesterday
afternoon. Quotes and the call recording are available here
. 

Here's today's list of local stories: 

* For this week's episode of Only in America
, we
bring you stories from two local organizations, KindWorks
 and Refugee Services of Texas
, that are helping Afghan evacuees
resettle in their new communities. 

* World Relief Chicago
 has resettled about 500
refugees in the city and neighboring suburbs over the last 40 years
or so. It will continue efforts to resettle Afghan evacuees in Rogers
Park, "a diverse neighborhood where many refugees from across the world
have already resettled." (Leen Yassine, Loyola Phoenix
) 

* The Women in Action Huddle of Greater Newburyport, Massachusetts, is
accepting donations, including toiletries, for its fall collection
drive, called Safe & New Beginnings, which will support Afghan refugees
and domestic violence victims. (The Daily News of Newburyport
) 

Thanks for reading,

Ali

 

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