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THE FORUM DAILY

Let's rewind a bit. 

Last week, Judge Robert Summerhays (a Trump appointee) ruled that the
Biden administration did not have grounds to rescind Title 42 without
the required notice-and-comment process. (Title 42 was originally
instituted in March 2020 without a notice-and-comment period). 

Now, some advocates are urging the Biden administration to not only seek
a stay of Title 42 to pause it, but to go through the rulemaking process
to end it, reports Rebecca Beitsch of The Hill
. 

"I think Title 42 needs to end immediately. The quickest way to do that
is to obtain a stay," said the ACLU's Lee Gelernt. However, Gelernt
added, "If the administration cannot obtain a stay, then doing notice
and comment quickly would be more immediate than allowing an appeal to
go forward over months and possibly a year or more."  

As Beitsch notes, the court's decision "requires the Biden
administration to jump through more administrative hoops to wind the
order than the Trump administration took in creating it." 

Ending the policy for good will take time. Meanwhile, a reminder that
this isn't a binary choice between Title 42 or no border policy - we
have 42 Border Solutions That Are Not Title 42.
 

Welcome to Tuesday'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] .  

GEORGIA'S FARMWORKERS - Last year, after a multi-year human
trafficking case

in Georgia exposed the poor conditions and abuses of undocumented
farmworkers at farms and meat processing plants, the federal government
began pursuing reforms, per Ximena Bustillo of NPR
.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas recently sent a letter
to Sen. Jon
Ossoff (D-Georgia) explaining that the department "is preparing to take
the first step toward creating a rule reforming the H-2A and H-2B
nonimmigrant worker visas." The proposed rulemaking process would
address some of the most pressing challenges in the Georgia case, "such
as workers being overcharged and issued illegal fees for visas and
facing salary shortages." We need a better system
.
 

REFUGEE KITCHEN - In Missoula, Montana, 18 refugee home cooks are
running the city's most in-demand restaurant, reports Kate Bernot for
The New York Times
.
As part of the weekly program United We Eat @Home
, "refugees and other immigrants living in
Missoula cook takeout meals to supplement their income." The meals,
which quickly sell out every week, offer specific cultural foods that
are otherwise hard to find in Missoula. "It's about shifting those
power dynamics and making sure that in this space, this is the refugee
chef's sphere," said Beth Baker, the program's manager. Speaking of
refugees transforming a space: For WBEZ Chicago
,
Elly Fishman shows how Afghan refugee students changed the dynamic and
built community at a Chicago high school. 

On local welcome: 

* In Boston, 350 volunteers at 31 sites across the archdiocese were
recognized at the Catholic Charities of Boston Spring Celebration for
helping resettle 160 Afghan refugees. (Jacqueline Tetrault, The Boston
Pilot ) 

* In collaboration with the Columbus-based Community Refugee and
Immigration Services (CRIS), a welcome team with St. Andrew's Anglican
Church has helped resettle Afghan families in Central Ohio, collecting
donations and providing them with food and furniture. (Joshua Keeran,
The Delaware Gazette
) 

BILOELA - Australia's new government announced Friday that it would
give a family of four Sri Lankan asylum-seekers temporary bridging
visas after three years of being held in offshore immigration detention,
Byron Kaye reports for Reuters
.
As a result of the decision, the parents can now stay in their adopted
hometown of Biloela as their asylum application is pending. "When I
visited Biloela in 2019, I saw just how much the community loves Priya,
Nades, Kopika and Tharnicaa," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tweeted.
"Today my government has enabled them to return home." Last summer, Yan
Zhuang of The New York Times

reported that one of the children in the family, Tharnicaa Murugappan,
had been medically evacuated from the detention center to mainland
Australia, "[renewing] calls for the family to be released from
detention and [prompting] candlelight vigils and protests across
Australia." 

'GUIDES ON YOUR JOURNEY' - For the National Catholic Reporter
,
Pauline Hovey reflects on how accompanying migrants at the border
"enriches [the] spiritual lives" of pastors and lay volunteers like
herself. "The more you get to know [migrants] as human beings, the
closer you feel, the more you share their pain, and then are moved to
speak strongly without fear," said El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz. "Then you
can go a step further and recognize them as guides on your journey." 

Thanks for reading, 

Joanna 

 

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