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The Biden administration sent the first two migrants to Mexico under
the recently reinstated Migrant Protection Protocols
(MPP), a.k.a "Remain in Mexico," on Wednesday, reports Jose Luis
Gonzalez of Reuters
.  

"This is a setback in immigration policy between Mexico and the United
States," said Misael Hernandez of COLEF , a
think tank in Mexico that focuses on the border. "And an example of
Trump's power in Congress and U.S. courts to go against Biden's
promises." 

In the first of a two-part series, Border Report's
 Sandra
Sanchez chronicles Carolina Carranza Silva and her
family's two-year journey as one of the first families to be sent to
Mexico under the first iteration of MPP. 

As the administration tries to reimplement a program they call
inhumane while simultaneously attempting to dismantle it, I
told Boston Public Radio
's Rebecca
Tauber that this is "bureaucratic knife fighting that at the end of
the day leaves tens of thousands of people at great risk." 

Meanwhile, Tamaulipas lawmakers are asking the Mexican government to
help them manage the recent increase of Central American migrants at
the border, as they lack basic resources to accommodate them,
reports Julian Resendiz of Border Report
. 

Still, as Gateway Seminary M.Div. student Maria de Jesus Dixon writes
in Christianity Today,
 we
can find hope at the border - if only we're willing to
go to "the eye of the storm to listen and to learn."  

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
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DENIALS - The U.S. "has begun issuing denials to Afghans seeking to
emigrate to the United States through the humanitarian parole
process" following an immense increase in applications, report Sophia
Cai and Stef W. Kight of Axios
. A
Homeland Security official told Axios that while more than 100 Afghans
have been approved for  humanitarian parole
 since
the summer, there are now "dozens of denials." Humanitarian parole
"was never intended as a workaround to the established refugee
resettlement program or Operation Allies Welcome, which has brought
roughly 75,000 vulnerable Afghans to the U.S. - and counting,"
officials told Axios. "It's intended only for people in extreme
circumstances who are not included in the operation, and are unable to
wait for refugee resettlement." 

'A SMALL CITY' - New Jersey's Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst
is the only military base still accepting new Afghan arrivals, Andrea
Castillo reports for the Los Angeles Times
. "We
have built a small city," said Gen. Adrian White, who manages the
2,000-person team operating the village of 11,100 "guests"  awaiting
resettlement. "Our unwavering goal has been to make their life in this
temporary location better every day." In related news, Airbnb has
made refugee resettlement "a core mission," per Glenn Gamboa of
the Associated Press
. The
organization has helped resettle 7,600 Afghan refugees in
recent months and has pledged to resettle 12,500 more.  

Here's today's local stories:  

* 60 organizations across 32 states, including The Schultz Family
Foundation, Welcome.us, and Hello Neighbor, have awarded a "total of
$1.3 million to engage 10,000+ volunteers" with Afghan resettlement.
(InsideNova
) 

* Missouri River Historical Development in Woodbury County, Iowa,
recently awarded $40,000 to a local nonprofit "to help refugees pay
deposits for housing." (Dave Dreeszen, Sioux City Journal
) 

* Headquartered in New York, Price Chopper/Market 32 supermarkets is
donating $27,000 of gift cards to be split among six organizations
supporting Afghan refugees. (WNYT
) 

* Texas Woman's University recently joined Welcome.us in announcing
the Welcome Campus Network, which "will amplify the work of higher
education institutions to welcome and support newly arrived Afghan
refugees" with scholarships, housing, and more. (TWU
) 

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COUNTY JAILS - A federal judge on Monday dismissed a
lawsuit from McHenry and Kankakee County officials in Illinois,
"clearing the way to end detention of federal immigration detainees at
their county jails," reports Robert McCoppin of the Chicago Tribune
.
This year alone, around 180 federal detainees had been held at the
McHenry jail, McCoppin notes, adding that U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) previously "paid the county about $8 million
a year to imprison the detainees while they waited for court hearings on
their immigration cases." Said Fred Tsao, senior policy counsel for the
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights: "We look forward to
the day when the remaining ICE contracts in our state finally end, and
we will work to win release for everyone in those jails for immigration
purposes and for everyone else who remains in the inhumane, costly, and
unnecessary immigration detention system." 

WISCONSIN FARMWORKERS - Two decades ago, farmers in Wisconsin turned
to immigrants to address their labor shortage. Today, the U.S. could
learn from those lessons, reports Adam Rogan of Kenosha News
.
John Rosenow's Rosenholm Dairy farm is a prime example, with about
half of its workforce hired from Mexico. "Whenever one quits -
often to move back home after having earned more money in Wisconsin than
they could have ever made at home - they are almost always immediately
replaced by a relative of a current employee seeking a better life and
willing to travel 1,400 miles to Wisconsin to pursue it," writes
Rogan. Meanwhile, Bryan Little, director of employment policy for the
California Farm Bureau, writes in AgAlert
 about the bureau's new
partnership with the Forum, which will help eligible agricultural
employees become U.S. citizens. 

Thanks for reading, 

Ali 

P.S. This week on Only in America
, we learn about 
Fugees Academy ,
a refugee-centric school in Ohio and Georgia working to empower
young new Americans to reach their full potential through sports and
education.  

 

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