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NOORANI'S NOTES

 

 

Breaking news this morning from a team at Reuters
:
About 1,300 children were evacuated from Afghanistan without their
parents and are now in limbo. Many have been placed with relatives, but
more than 250 are living in government shelters or in foster care. 

"The complicated situations of the minors, coupled with language
barriers and lack of culturally appropriate foster families for those
who don't have sponsors in the United States, is creating a tangled
knot of problems for the U.S. government," report Kristina Cooke, Mica
Rosenberg and Lindsey Wasson. "Primary among them: no clear mechanism
for reuniting children who are now in the United States with parents
still stuck abroad." 

The Biden administration is working on speeding up the entry process for
parents in Afghanistan whose children are already in the U.S., two U.S.
officials say.  

Welcome to Wednesday'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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911 - In November 2020, Maira Oviedo-Granados called 911 hoping
the Knox County, Tennessee, Sheriff's Office would rescue her from a
violent and armed boyfriend. Instead, Angela Dennis and Tyler Whetstone
of the Knoxville News Sentinel
 report,
"deputies ensnared her in the county's controversial immigration
enforcement program." Oviedo-Granados, who has a pending asylum claim,
has now filed a lawsuit against the Knox County Sheriff and Knoxville
Mayor seeking $2.5 million in punitive damages after she was separated
from her children and jailed without access to a translator or
attorney. The lawsuit "opens the door to a class-action lawsuit that
could seek to punish the county and its leadership for unlawfully
participating in the program." 

HAITIAN DEPORTEES

** **- Though the Biden administration quickly deported thousands
of Haitians back in September, some are making plans to
migrate to the U.S. again, reports Monica Campbell of PRI's The
World
. "They
can't do this ... We left Haiti years ago and now we're back?" said
19-year-old Dianie, who left Haiti when she was 15. "There's no
president, so how can I be sent back to a country where they can murder
the president?" While most Haitians making the journey to the
U.S. still travel by land, a growing number are making the dangerous
journey by sea, Campbell writes. "It's an uncertain voyage and,
wherever they may land, Haitians are often intercepted and turned
back." 

PROJECT ANAR - For the Los Angeles Times
,
Andrea Castillo tells the story of attorney Wogai Mohmand, who is
spearheading an effort to get Afghans stuck in Afghanistan safely and
legally into the U.S. Co-led by Mohmand and two other Afghan American
women, Project ANAR  (Afghan Network for
Advocacy and Resources) "draws on past models of similar U.S. aid to
groups from Latin America and South Asia" using humanitarian parole
. So
far, the group has helped some 9,000 Afghans apply for parole to
enter the U.S. - but an overwhelmed United States Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) has yet to process any of the applications
submitted. So far, almost 70,000 Afghans have been paroled into the
U.S. as part of the government's Operation Allies Welcome
 effort and an additional 20,000
Afghans have separately applied for parole since August, per USCIS. 

Here is today's list of local stories:  

* Western Kentucky University faculty members have launched a project
to fill more than 150 welcome bags "with essential and comforting
items" for Afghan arrivals. (Hannah Covington and Rhonda Miller, WKU
Public Radio
)

* Chris George, executive director of Integrated Refugee and Immigrant
Services in New Haven, Connecticut, is looking to "develop a
complimentary program of engaging community groups in the resettlement
process." (Desiree D'Iorio, WSHU
) 

* Raised in just 10 days, nearly $1.5 million will go to Dorcas
International Institute of Rhode Island and the Roman Catholic Diocese
of Providence to support refugee resettlement efforts. (Antonia
Noori Farzan, The Providence Journal
) 

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THE TED LASSO EFFECT - In an op-ed for Forbes
,
Stuart Anderson draws parallels between the Apple TV+ series Ted
Lasso and the National Bureau of Economic Research's recently
published paper
 on
hiring skilled immigrants. "When organizations (in our context,
European football clubs) are given more flexibility to hire skilled
immigrants, their performance improves, and such immigrants provide them
with a competitive advantage relative to organizations that are more
constrained," said Britta Glennon, an assistant professor at the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania. "Organizations benefit from
being able to hire more skilled immigrants."  

**NEW STRATEGY** - With "the detritus of two decades of
congressional efforts to reform U.S. immigration laws" buried in
President Biden's Build Back Better plan, Foreign Policy
 columnist Ted
Alden makes the case for a new approach to immigration
reform. He identifies a number of priorities for the Biden
administration to engage Congress on: Reform the rules for high-skilled
immigration, control the southern border through a combination of
enforcement resources and legal pathways, and greater resources for
asylum processing. Whether or not Biden's plan passes, Alden writes,
"it is time to leave the vision of a comprehensive reform behind and
start taking the slow, necessary steps to build an immigration system
that helps the United States meet the challenges of the 21st
century - especially growing competition from China." 

Thanks for reading,

Ali

 

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