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NOORANI'S NOTES

 

 

President Biden's spending bill is facing a "Senate
scramble," reports Jordain Carney of The Hill
.  

The latest immigration plan for the bill (which we noted on Friday
) still needs
a review from the parliamentarian. After previous proposals were
rejected, the latest version no longer includes a permanent pathway
to citizenship for undocumented people. 

But it does include a proposal for green card recapture
, as Michelle
Hackman reports for The Wall Street Journal
. 

However, as I wrote in my Sunday note
 - at the risk
of oversimplifying - conservatives are angry about immigration,
liberals (without Trump to focus them on immigration) are angry about
everything else. And the immigrant rights movement might be angrier
than all of them. 

The movement's anger is now directed at Democrats
by several organizations pressuring members to overrule the
parliamentarian and include a path to citizenship in reconciliation.  

In other news: Tomorrow, I'll be joining the brilliant Kristie de
Peña of the Niskanen Center
 to
talk with acclaimed immigration attorney and author Susan
Cohen. We'll be talking about Susan's new book
, Journeys From There
to Here: Stories of Immigrant Trials, Triumphs, and
Contributions. Register here
. 

Welcome to Monday'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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**DEPORTATION NOTICES** - Starting today, the U.S. government "will
send court documents to 78,000 migrants who were not processed for
deportation after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization
this year," reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS News
. Per
sources, the documents "will instruct migrants, many of them families
with children, to show up to court hearings before immigration judges,
who will determine whether the new arrivals will be allowed to stay in
the country." As Montoya-Galvez notes, immigration courts currently
have a 1.4 million-case backlog. 

**ABBEY GATE** - For The New York Times
, Helene
Cooper and Eric Schmitt tell the powerful story of the young
Marines in Kabul who were "racing against time" to get Afghans on the
last evacuation plane and officially close Abbey Gate, one of
Kabul airport's main entryways, as the U.S. military withdrawal
concluded. In the withdrawal's final days, "[y]oung men and women
just out of their teens became visa officers, forced to make Solomonic
decisions that would determine the path of life of thousands of
men, women and children," Cooper and Schmitt write. "It is very hard
to look at a family that doesn't have the proper documentation, and
then put them back into a sewage canal," said Capt. Geoff Ball.
"You're looking at someone who believes that if they don't get out
through this airport that they will be killed by the Taliban." 

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MICHIGAN BLUEPRINT - White House official Jack Markell "says
Michigan can be a blueprint for the nation's Afghan resettlement
process," per Alyssa Burr of MLive
. "I
came to Lansing specifically because of the reputation that Lansing and
Michigan have already developed in terms of the innovation and the
support" for Afghan refugees, said Markell, the White House
Coordinator for Operation Allies Welcome. Today, Michigan resettlement
agencies are currently approved for approximately 1,600 Afghan
arrivals and have plans to resettle them by the end of
the year. Meanwhile, NBC's
 Cyrus
Farivar documents Airbnb's efforts to help refugees secure
temporary places to stay amid a housing crisis.  

Here's today's collection of local stories:  

* Church World Service is launching an office in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, to expand its network of support for refugees,
including new Afghan arrivals. (Maddie Gittens, The Burg
) 

* Tony Evans, founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in
Dallas and founder and president of The Urban Alternative, makes a
strong case to welcome Afghan refugees, writing that
resettlement "presents a unique opportunity for Christians to follow
Christ's model of compassion and hospitality." (The Dallas Morning
News
) 

* West Michigan agencies like Kalamazoo Public Schools have set up
welcome centers to help new Afghan students settle into classrooms.
(Hannah Knowles, News Channel 3
) 

MEETING A NEED - The labor shortage in California - combined with
the need to find work - is driving more unauthorized
immigrants to attempt to cross the southern border, reports
Kim Bojórquez of The Sacramento Bee
.
"There are jobs to be had and I don't know if in my lifetime I've
seen this many signs in store shop windows about hiring opportunities
and employers claiming that they can't get enough workers,"
said immigration expert Kevin R. Johnson, dean of the UC Davis School
of Law. "You got to think that's going to have an impact on people
making the decision whether to cross or not." Per Employment
Development Department
 estimates,
California's current unemployment rate is 7.5%. Speaking of entry, the
U.S. is reopening its land borders to fully vaccinated travelers
starting today, per KOMO News
 and
the Associated Press. 

Thanks for reading,

Ali

 

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