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The pandemic-related slowdown in visa processing, coupled with tightened
immigration policies, has led to a precipitous drop in the number of
immigrants on H-1B visas holding high-tech jobs - and job openings in
the industry have reached record highs.  

A Bloomberg News analysis of Department of Labor data found that
"[f]oreign engineering and mathematics workers on H-1B visas fell 12.6%
in the fiscal year ending September 2021 compared to the previous year,"
Bloomberg
's
Linly Lin writes. Compared to the pre-COVID levels of 2019, "this
year's number of H-1B employment cases was down 19% for the
engineering and mathematics job category."   

In September there were "a record 230,000 job openings in the
information sector."   

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]
.  

**PREGNANT DETAINEES** - On Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) issued new guidelines

"for the treatment of pregnant, postpartum, breastfeeding and infant
detainees," reports Rafael Bernal of The Hill
.
A July report from the DHS Office of the Inspector General detailed
CBP's lack of care infrastructure, highlighting unsanitary and
inhumane conditions for pregnant women in detention. The new memo lays
out "a series of measures - from improving CBP installations to
include changing stations to providing medical support - that field
offices and Border Patrol stations will have to implement within 45
days," Bernal writes.  

**POLITICS VS. REALITY** - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) policy of
arresting migrants trying to cross the southern border has led to dozens
of people being locked up for weeks or months without seeing a judge,
Jolie McCullough reports for The Texas Tribune
.
More than 90 of the men arrested on trespassing charges were scheduled
to have their first court appearances this week - but two Kinney
County officials tested positive for COVID-19, further delaying
proceedings. Meanwhile, Abbott's recent claims that South African
migrants were crossing the border and spreading a new COVID-19 variant
have been condemned as "misleading and dangerous," per Texas Public
Radio's

Pablo De La Rosa. "What we have seen from Abbott is this use of a lot of
white supremacist rhetoric around migrants who are coming," said Human
Rights Watch researcher Ari Sawyer. "The sort of great replacement
theory rhetoric that was used by the Texas Walmart shooter in El Paso.
It's very dangerous rhetoric." Related: Today we are releasing new
resources

on the Great Replacement Theory's origins, its presence in the
immigration debate, and how to combat it.  

**LONG-TERM EFFECTS** - A new study
 from
Georgetown University and the University of Michigan finds that families
forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border  under Trump's
"zero-tolerance" policy experience long-term effects of post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression, reports Jordan
Wilkerson of The Dallas Morning News
.
"These folks need long-term rehabilitation," said Dr. Ranit Mishori,
senior author of the study. "It is unambiguous in my mind as a physician
... that the government must provide for such resources and
rehabilitation services for the foreseeable future." The Biden
administration's Family Reunification Task Force has yet to identify
the parents of at least 1,700 children separated under the policy,
Wilkinson notes.  

**BAKE SALE **- Seven-year-old Esther Hilsabeck's
great-grandparents fled Europe as refugees after surviving the
Holocaust. And after hearing about the plight of Afghan refugees
arriving in her hometown of Pittsburgh, she "paired up with a friend,
6-year-old Alphie Doller, and held a fundraising bake sale recently at
the Squirrel Hill Farmers' Market," Justin Vellucci writes for the
Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle
.
The pair raised more than $500 for Jewish Family and Community Services.
"It's so [the new refugees] could be just as comfortable here as they
would be at their old homes," said Alphie.  

Here are more local stories of welcome:  

* In Charlottesville, Virginia, the International Rescue Committee is
working to find affordable housing for more than 200 Afghans who are
resettling in the community. (Brielle Entzminger, C-Ville Weekly
) 

* Jewish Family Services of Delaware has pledged to help 30 refugees,
including Afghan families, resettle in the state. (Mark Eichmann, WHYY
) 

* Dane County, Wisconsin, is doing its "small part" by including $50,000
in its Fiscal Year 2022 budget to support organizations helping Afghan
families resettle in the community. (Emily Hamer, Wisconsin State
Journal
). 

Thanks for reading, 

Ali

 

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