From Joanna Taylor, National Immigration Forum <[email protected]>
Subject Words of Wisdom
Date March 25, 2022 2:15 PM
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The Biden administration formally announced yesterday that it would
welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing their home country and
employ "the full range of legal pathways" for their entry, per a team at
CNN
.
The administration also published a fact sheet

on ways to bolster "Humanitarian, Development, and Democracy
Assistance" to Ukraine and its surrounding region. 

A new AP-NORC poll

found that 67% of Americans favor accepting refugees from Ukraine, while
82% favor strong humanitarian support, reports Paulina Firozi of The
Washington Post
.
(Texas organizations are already gearing up to welcome an estimated
12,000 Ukrainian refugees to the state, reports WFAA
's
Adriana De Alba.) 

This is the kind of global leadership on mass migration the U.S. and
Americans need to show - for Ukrainians and for others.

"The announcement that the U.S. will welcome Ukrainian refugees
demonstrates America's humanitarian leadership to the world. It should
be a first step as we re-establish our refugee resettlement system more
broadly," said Stewart Verdery, a Council on National Security and
Immigration (CNSI) leader and CEO of Monument Advocacy, via a statement
. 

Meanwhile, Srdjan Nedeljkovic and David Keyton of the Associated Press

share powerful perspectives from Ukrainian refugees themselves, whose
hopes of returning home are dimming. "Why is [Putin] bombing peaceful
homes? Why there are so many victims, blood, and killed children, body
parts everywhere?" said Natalia Lutsenko, from the bombed-out town of
Chernihiv. "It is horrible. Sleepless nights. Parents are crying, there
are no children anymore."

Welcome to Friday's edition of Noorani's Notes. I'm Joanna
Taylor, filling in for Ali today. If you have a story to share from
your own community, please send it to me at
[email protected] . And
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TITLE 42 - There's been a sharp increase of Colombians arriving at
the U.S.-Mexico border this month - and the Biden administration has
expelled several hundred of them under the pandemic-related Title 42
policy, reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS News
.
The expulsions represent a "marked increase" from the 20 expelled to
Colombia in February under the policy, and most Colombian migrants
previously were allowed to enter the U.S. and seek asylum. "The Biden
administration is so determined to keep expelling migrants without
giving them an opportunity to ask for protection in the United States
that they're paying several hundred dollars per person to put them on
planes back to South America," said policy analyst Adam Isacson of the
Washington Office on Latin America. Meanwhile, faith leaders continue to
call on the administration to end Title 42, per Rhina Guidos of Catholic
News Service
. 

WORDS OF WISDOM - A retired U.S. Air Force master sergeant known as
"Annie," originally from Afghanistan, was recently named one of Central
Ohio's Remarkable Women of 2022
. Annie came to
the U.S. when she was 13 and served in the U.S. Air Force for almost 26
years. But when Kabul fell to the Taliban, she "worked day and night
coordinating efforts to get the right papers into the hands of Afghan
refugees" in collaboration with a network of veterans and nonprofit
organizations, per WCMH
.
"[W]e're blessed, we have everything we need," she said. "But we've
got to reach back and help the ones that don't necessarily have
everything they need." Speaking of wisdom, World Magazine
's
Esther Eaton interviews CNSI leader, former DHS official and Forum board
member Elizabeth Neumann on how the vetting process works for refugees
fleeing war, among other topics.

On local welcome:

* With support from a U.S. Marine, Lutheran Family Services Rocky
Mountains in Denver, and a family connection in Cincinnati, three young
Afghan female athletes are settling into their new home in
Ohio. (Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati Enquirer
)

* In partnership with Church World Service, California restaurant
owner Aasim Sajjad and others volunteered with SLO4Home
 to offer "refugees assistance with
finding a job, transportation, housing, governmental
coordination, culture and hospitality, and more." (Malea Martin, New
Times San Luis Obispo
) 

CENSUS DATA - New Census data
 shows
that substantial population loss in 2021, headlined by but not limited
to large cities, led to the slowest year of growth in U.S. history,
report Robert Gebeloff, Dana Goldstein and Winnie Hu of The New
York Times
.
"Although some of the fastest growing regions in the country continued
to boom, the gains were nearly erased by stark losses last year in
counties that encompass the New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco
metropolitan areas," they write. The pandemic, increased housing
costs, steadily falling birthrates, and a steep drop in immigration
have all contributed to the slowdown. The Census Bureau's map
 offers
a good visualization of population declines in many rural areas as
well. As we've noted, increased legal immigration can help us
respond to the demographic
 and economic
 challenges
at hand. 

**BORDER ART** - For this year's Whitney Biennial
 exhibition, senior
curators David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards stepped outside the box to
look for visual artists and drew inspiration from art depicting humane
experiences at the Tijuana, Mexico, border wall, reports
Siddhartha Mitter of The New York Times
.
"The generative alchemy of a border town might offer clues for fresh
thinking about other divisions: between racial or gender categories, the
material and the spiritual worlds, the living and the dead," writes
Mitter. "We think of the border as a divide, but actually it marks a
point of negotiation," Edwards says. The show, "Quiet as It's Kept,"
opens April 6. 

Thanks for reading, 

Joanna 

 

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