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The Alliance for a New Immigration Consensus

(ANIC) hosted a panel on Wednesday with several businesses, national
security, and faith leaders to shed light on the Title 42 lift and offer
long-term solutions: the urgent need for Congress to enact meaningful
immigration reforms related to the border this year, per Jeff Brumley of
Baptist News Global
. 

"We are going to be pushing both Congress and the (Biden)
administration to sit down and start working with one another because
without it we are going to see these problems persist," said one of the
speakers, Jon Baselice, vice president of immigration policy for the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce. 

LEITF member Andy Harvey, chief of police in Pharr,
Texas, added: "The possibility of Title 42 ending gives it more [of a]
sense of urgency, but it's been like that. It's nothing new. We have
been screaming at the top of our lungs for something to be done." 

Until the administration decides how to roll the policy back, some
migrants will continue their yearslong wait in Nogales along the
U.S.-Mexico border, reports Brenda Muñoz Murguia of Cronkite News
. 

"Title 42 is not stopping migrants from getting into the U.S.," said
Rosario, who fled cartels in Mexico. "There are still people dying in
the desert. We just want President Biden to listen to us and for people
to walk in our shoes for a day." 

Against the backdrop of Title 42 conversations are the 21 states who are
now suing the administration on the decision to end the policy, per Ronn
Blitzer of Fox News
. 

Bottom Line: The repeal of Title 42 is yet another reminder of the
urgent need for members of Congress to listen to Americans
 and
work together to find legislative solutions on immigration,
including border security.  

Welcome to Friday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Joanna
Taylor, Senior Communications Manager at the Forum, filling in for Ali
today. If you have a story to share from your own community, please
send it to me at [email protected]
.  

**OPTICS** - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) initiative for National
Guard Troopers to inspect commercial trucks is coming to a halt, reports
Uriel J. García of The Texas Tribune
.
Abbott originally proposed the order to track down undocumented
immigrants, cartels, and drugs - but the data tell a different story,
Elvia Díaz writes in a column for the Arizona Republic
.
So far, troopers have removed 646 trucks from service out of 2,685
inspected - for reasons such as "burned-out headlights or taillights,
defective brakes or flawed tires," per media reports. "That only proves
that some of Abbott's crackdowns are just for show, like his idea to
transport migrants to Washington, D.C.," Díaz writes. And instead of
working in a bipartisan manner to find broader border solutions, Abbott
"is willing to hurt nearly $400 billion in trade with Mexico to stay in
power."  

UKRAINIANS - Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees entering the U.S. via
humanitarian parole

are now struggling to find work, per Spencer Pauley of The Center Square
.
Parole application fees are costly: $410, in addition to $85 for
fingerprints. And processing for work authorizations can also take a
minimum of six months, notes Oleg Pynda of the Ukrainian Community
Center of Washington (UCCWA). To help, the Washington state's Office
of Immigration and Refugee Affairs (OIRA) recently held a webinar for
Ukrainian refugees to review their avenues for legal immigration. And
on the ground, Arkansas native Lewis Price "spent 10 days in Poland last
month acting as a chauffeur to Ukrainian refugees," reports Worth
Sparkman of Axios
.
Meanwhile, Poland has begun to build "a border wall, even as it welcomes
Ukrainian refugees," Chico Harlan and Piotr Zakowiecki report for The
Washington Post
. 

MORE IMMIGRATION - Increasing immigration to the U.S. could help
lower inflation related to labor shortages, writes Linda Chavez, a
senior fellow at the Forum, in an op-ed for The xxxxxx
. In the
wake of a combination of Trump-era and pandemic-related immigration
restrictions, Congress needs to pass immigration reform "allowing more
workers to enter the country and granting legal status to the millions
of undocumented workers already here." Our policy associate Arturo
Castellanos-Canales explains the immigration approach to labor shortages

even further. Meanwhile, tech giants like Microsoft and Google are
concerned that their employees "will miss out on thousands of potential
green cards this year as the U.S. continues to struggle with an
immigration backlog," per Axios
'
Margaret Harding McGill.  

**GRATEFUL** - With help from the Sponsor Circle
program, Afghan ally "Ahmad," his
wife, and two young twin daughters were able to relocate to Routt
County, Colorado, Suzie Romig reports for Steamboat Pilot & Today
.
"We feel much support here, kindness. They have reshaped my life," Ahmad
said of his sponsors, county residents Warren Luce and Valerie Davia.
"I'll never take anything for granted in my life," said Davia of the
experience.  

More local news: 

* "We are getting increasing requests from people in the Afghan
population who want to come to Bennington," said Joe Wiah, director of
the Ethiopian Community Development Council for Southern Vermont. "This
is testimony to the good work a lot of [residents and resettled
Afghans] have done." (Jim Therrien, Bennington Banner
) 

* Afghan artists and women's rights activists Zainab Ahmadi and Fawzia
Abdaly joined Indianapolis artist Tiffany Black, along with almost 60
refugees, to create a mural honoring Afghan refugees' journey to
Indiana, which is now on display at the Indianapolis International
Airport. (Eric Berman, WIBC
) 

Thanks for reading, 

Joanna 

 

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