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THE FORUM DAILY

 

Without Congress passing the bipartisan America's Children Act,
undocumented Dreamers will continue to age out of the immigration
system, Stuart Anderson of the National Foundation for American Policy
writes for Forbes
.
 

Spearheaded by Reps. Deborah Ross (D-North Carolina) and Mariannette
Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) in the House and Sens. Alex Padilla (D-California)
and Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) in the Senate, "[t]he America's Children
Act would create a process for
individuals to apply for a green card if they were brought to the United
States as the children of visa holders, maintained legal status for 10
years and graduated from college," Improve The Dream

founder Dip Patel told Anderson. "It would also establish age-out
protections that lock in a child's age on the date they file for a
green card petition - rather than the date the green card becomes
available, which could be decades after the original application." 

Small but impactful administrative changes like policy manual changes
and new regulations could also help prevent Dreamers from aging out of
the system, even if temporarily, Patel notes.  

Bottom line: "If Congress and the president do not solve the aging out
problem, top talent from around the world will overlook the
opportunities that America promises, knowing full well it may be a poor
choice for those with families. ... If these policies are not changed,
America is not only failing us, but it is failing itself by depriving it
of the contributions of children it helped raise and educate. America
has invested in our talents and success, and the country should reap the
benefits." 

For the current state of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
as it winds through the courts, check out our policy explainer
. 

Welcome to Monday'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]
.  

TALENT COMPETITION - Twelve members of the Council on National
Security and Immigration (CNSI), along with a network of 37 former
national security leaders, sent a letter

to Congress today asking lawmakers to ease immigration restrictions for
foreign science talent "in a bid to maintain U.S. science and tech
leadership," report Alison Snyder and Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian of Axios
.
The America COMPETES Act
,
which passed the House in February, includes a provision that would
exempt certain STEM professionals from green card caps. "American
leadership in technology, a cornerstone of competitiveness, rests in
large part on our ability to leverage domestic and international
talent," the letter

states. "China is the most significant technological and geopolitical
competitor our country has faced in recent times. With the world's
best STEM talent on its side, it will be very hard for America to lose.
Without it, it will be very hard for America to win." 

**ASYLUM** - For Christianity Today
,
World Relief's Matthew Soerens encourages Christians to look at
migrants seeking asylum as brothers and sisters. "Christians who believe
in the dignity of each life as made in the image of God should want our
government to err on the side of care before casually returning anyone
to a situation where they could be persecuted or killed. ... Whether
they ultimately can document a credible fear of persecution and qualify
for asylum or not, individuals who come to the U.S. border looking for
officers of the U.S. government - not bearing weapons but with
supplicant, pleading open hands - are not invaders: they are human
beings, seeking help and mercy." And for Border Report
,
Salvador Rivera reports that since the end of April, CBP has granted an
estimated vulnerable 350 asylum seekers entry to the U.S. at the San
Ysidro Port of Entry.  

**SPONSORSHIP CHALLENGES** - Marianna Brucker of suburban Atlanta is
one of the people making up "an informal network of Americans who are
making it possible to resettle Ukrainian refugees," report Michelle
Hackman and Alicia A. Caldwell of The Wall Street Journal
.
Brucker became familiar with the plight of Ukrainians through her
children's nanny, a recent immigrant from Ukraine, and she wanted to
help. She has since started a donation drive and offered up her own home
to refugees. But without official government support, "[i]t's
basically the blind leading the blind over here. You're on blogs,
you're on YouTube," said Brucker. "There's no protocol that's
well-known for everyone on what steps to take or where to go or who to
ask, which is really awful of us." Many sponsor circles working with
Afghan refugees have similar sentiments. For more on how private
sponsorship works, see our new policy explainer
. 

Meanwhile, in local welcome: 

* In partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Eastbrook
Church is financially supporting eight Afghan women in UWM's
Intensive English Program. "It's a great example of a public
university working with private, even religious organizations in the
community for a common goal - to support people who need it," said
English Language Academy director Brooke Haley. "I think it's kind of
a beautiful model." (Emily Files, WUWM
) 

* The Muslim Women's Resource Center in Rogers Park, Chicago, has been
supporting an estimated 300 Afghans and other refugee communities with
housing, translation, mental health services, and more. (NBC Chicago
) 

LEBANESE DIASPORA - For Arab News
, Eduardo Campos Lima
examines an online Lebanese archive of nearly 200,000 pages chronicling
Arab migration to Latin America. The project is led by Holy Spirit
University of Kaslik (USEK) a private Catholic university in Lebanon,
and Brazilian-born Roberto Khatlab, director of USEK's Latin American
Studies and Cultures Center. Institutions across Latin America with Arab
community ties are supporting the efforts, helping to document and
digitize the cultural impact of the diaspora and connect its members to
their heritage.  

Thanks for reading, 

Joanna 

 

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