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THE FORUM DAILY

With the pending Title 42 lift around the corner, thousands of migrants
have been waiting along the U.S.-Mexico border for months in hopes of
entering the U.S. to seek asylum, Miriam Jordan reports for The New York
Times
. 

"There has never been a public health justification for using Title 42
authority in the battle to contain Covid-19," said Wayne Cornelius of
the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC San Diego. "It was
an obscure rule ... part of a multipronged effort to curb immigration to
the U.S." 

Regardless of Title 42, slated to end on May 23, root causes

are pushing migrants from various parts of the world out. 

For CBS News
,
Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports that under Title 42, "[m]ore than 12,000
migrant children reentered U.S. border custody as unaccompanied minors
in fiscal year 2021 after being expelled to Mexico," per unpublished CBP
data. 

"Expelling families under Title 42 had forced parents to make the
unbearable choice of keeping their children with them in danger or
sending them alone to safety in the United States. No family should have
to make that decision," said Lee Gelernt, an ACLU attorney challenging
the expulsions in court. 

This is why we need broader, permanent border solutions

that are not Title 42. 

And in the words

of Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) and Deepak Bhargava, CUNY
lecturer and longtime immigrant organizer: "... [W]e must remember that
there are real people behind this issue. We cannot take our compassion
and our empathy out of the process. We cannot allow hatred and fear of
political retaliation to prevent us from doing the right thing.
Immigration policy is not just about immigrants - it defines our
character and identity as a multiracial, inclusive democracy." 

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

DREAM ACT - To truly honor the late Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah),
Congress must pass the DREAM Act that Hatch first championed back in
2001, writes Bernardo Castro, a Utah Dreamer and good friend

of ours, in an op-ed for The Salt Lake Tribune
.
Thanks to DACA, "I have found the hope and opportunity that Hatch's
bill outlined - but not the permanence," Castro writes. "...
Congress's failure to pass the original DREAM Act, or any of the many
bipartisan iterations of it since, leaves me at risk of being separated
from all that I know and being deported to a country in which I have few
connections and no memories." For the current court challenges facing
DACA recipients like Castro, see our policy explainer
.
Meanwhile, evangelical pastor Reid Kapple offers his perspective on
reforms for the Kansas City Star
. 

**VACCINATIONS** - The Biden administration has now vaccinated more
than 20,000 migrants and asylum-seekers in border custody as part of a
COVID-19 vaccination campaign launched in late March, per Camilo
Montoya-Galvez and Nicole Sganga at CBS News
.
"It is something that I believe is historic, because we are building a
health system all along the southwest border, an area that has been
historically neglected for years, if not decades," DHS Chief Medical
Officer Dr. Pritesh Gandhi told CBS News. 

**REFUGEE UPDATES** - Starting today, an estimated 72,500 Afghans
already in the U.S. will officially be able to apply for temporary
protected status

(TPS), per Andrew Kreighbaum of Bloomberg Law
.
DHS posted a Federal Register notice

announcing the registration process for Afghans to get protected status
and work authorization. On Thursday, the Senate "overwhelmingly
approved" $40 billion in humanitarian and emergency aid for Ukraine, per
Catie Edmondson and Emily Cochrane of The New York Times
.
The Council on National Security and Immigration highlighted the news in
a new blog
.  

Today's local stories: 

* In collaboration with her mosque, Aminah Syed, a high school junior
from Long Grove, Illinois, "started a clothing and fundraising drive to
help refugees from Afghanistan seeking new lives in the United States."
(Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune
) 

* Afghan refugee Hassinullah Niazy has recently settled into his new
life in Providence, Rhode Island, where he works at nonprofit Dorcas
International to help other Afghans "learn English and become
self-sufficient through career and technology training." (ABC6 News
) 

* Massachusetts has welcomed some 2,000 Afghan refugees as of March,
including brothers Shakib and Waden Malikzai, who now work in the
janitorial department as a part of a new UMass Chan Medical School
program in Worcester that helps recently resettled Afghan refugees find
work. (Tiziana Dearing, Radio Boston
) 

**FORSYTH COUNTY** - Forsyth County, Georgia's Black residents were
once terrorized and brutally murdered under the guise of Great
Replacement Theory

before there was even a coined term for the dangerous conspiracy,
Jonathan Weisman reports for The New York Times
.
"If those who carried out mass shootings in Buffalo, Pittsburgh, El
Paso, and Christchurch, New Zealand, showed how deadly such beliefs
could be in the hands of a single, well-armed killer, the Forsyth County
of 1912 showed what a more organized operation of terror could
accomplish." Today, the population is booming and diverse - "now over
260,000 - up from 45,000 when the vestiges of all-white Forsyth began
falling away."  

BIRRIA TACOS - For Salon
,
Joseph Neese gives his personal take on "Taste of the Border,"
award-winning Mexican chef and author Claudia Sandoval's new
Discovery+ series. "My grandma would be cooking up and you could smell
the café de olla brewing, and my grandpa would be in his typical corner
reading the newspaper," Claudia recapped in a recent "Salon Talks"
episode . "Those are some of the
most nostalgic memories I have of growing up on the border." And at the
end of the day, Sandoval says, "We can all come around a good plate of
food and have an awesome discussion about nostalgia around food, about
how that food came to be." 

Thanks for reading, 

Joanna  

 

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