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Without better border solutions in place, the Biden administration is
relying increasingly on respite centers and nonprofit migrant shelters
like Texas-based La Posada Providencia to temporarily house and feed
migrants on their journey north, reports Eileen Sullivan of The New York
Times
,
with photographs by Kirsten Luce. 

"Whether providing a meal, a place to cool off or sleep, legal guidance,
medical care, transportation or help figuring out how to reach a
destination, these shelters and centers, sometimes working with state
and local officials, fill a void in the country's outdated immigration
system," Sullivan writes. 

Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of the Catholic Charities
branch in the Rio Grande Valley, and her volunteers are part of this
network. "The most important thing is to restore the dignity - that
has been the focus," she said of helping migrants. "And stay away from
the politics." 

Although Biden's budget request includes grants for the shelters, many
of them - and some cities around the country to which migrants then
travel - are bumping up against capacity limits. 

"It's a temporary solution. It should not be how we support
organizations doing this," said Marisa Limón Garza, the senior director
for advocacy and programming at the Hope Border Institute in El Paso.
"It's unsustainable." 

Welcome to Tuesday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan Gordon,
the Forum's VP of Strategic Communications. If you have a story to
share from your own community, please send it to me at
[email protected] .  

TITLE 42 - Friday's court ruling keeping Title 42 in place may not
slow border crossings, Priscilla Alvarez reports for CNN
.
Along the border, some migrants are "undeterred and desperate,"
advocates say. "I don't think that just because Title 42 didn't go
away today that people are thinking that was the one and only way they
were going to get over," said Sam Bishop, Mexico country director for
Global Response Management. Meanwhile, in an op-ed for the Arizona
Republic

published before the court ruling, Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Arizona)
urges Congress to stop stalling and address long-standing immigration
issues beyond Title 42. "[I]t's time that we prioritize the voices and
communities of the southern borderlands in policymaking instead of
politicizing and militarizing them," he writes. 

**TEXAS ELECTION** - A runoff election in South Texas between
Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and progressive immigration lawyer Jessica
Cisneros is revealing the "acute tensions within the party on
immigration," Jazmine Ulloa and Jennifer Medina report for The New York
Times
.
"In interviews with Democratic leaders and voters in Texas' 28th
Congressional District, which stretches from Laredo to San Antonio, many
expressed a deep frustration with both national Democrats and
Republicans who use the border as a political backdrop but have failed
to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, combat the drug trade or
improve legal pathways to citizenship," they write.  

UKRAINIAN RESETTLEMENT - 100,000 Ukrainians can now resettle in the
United States under humanitarian parole. But because parole doesn't
provide the "benefits of refugee status, which include work
authorization, health care and housing assistance," many Ukrainians are
seeking support from sponsor circles, per Mary Pflum at NBC News
.
Despite challenges, sponsors such as John and Lisa Monaco of Tampa,
Florida, speak of the rewards - in their case as they welcome a family
of four. "We feel like we're the grandparents and the kids and the
grandkids have come home," said John Monaco. 

Local welcome for Afghans remains strong as well: 

* In Minnesota, the Winona Afghan Support Network held a film screening
at the Winona Arts Center to help welcome recently resettled Afghan
refugees to the community. All donations "go directly to helping these
families and individuals with things like rent, utilities, food, until
they get up on their feet and can start being empowered and can make
their own way," said Kathy Florin of the network. (Leah Rivard, WKBT
) 

* In partnership with interfaith groups, Dr. Maqsood Chaudhry hosted a
free clinic in Falls Church, Virginia, in which "about 70 refugees were
treated by a team of 17 dentists." Said Chaudhry, "As an immigrant from
Pakistan, I can understand the need and necessity of having health care
and how difficult it can be." (Valerie Bonk, WTOP
) 

**TIKTOK** - TikTok activist Carlos Eduardo Espina is using the social
media app to help migrants understand the U.S. immigration system and
how to cross the border safely in Spanish, per the Associated Press

(text here
).
"The quick format of the videos, where you're able to watch a TikTok
in 10 seconds and then watch another one, is really convenient for
immigrants - especially if you're on the move - you're going
through Mexico or through Central America," said Espina, a U.S. citizen
who immigrated to Texas as a child. "I've been blessed in this
country to be able to go to school. Now I'm in law school. I've been
able to work. I've been able to contribute," he added. "I want people
at the end of the day to be safe, to be secure, and to not make
decisions that could potentially put their lives in danger." 

Thanks for reading,  

Dan 

 

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