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More than 100 million people are currently displaced worldwide, per a
recent UNHCR report . We
need a better system - one where the U.S. collaborates with our global
partners to meet the moment, writes Andy J. Semotiuk, a U.S. and
Canadian immigration attorney, in an op-ed for Forbes
. 

"Today's sobering 100 million displacement figure is indisputable
proof that global leaders are failing the world's most vulnerable
people on a scale never before seen," said Jan Egeland,
Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council. 

The main challenge, Semotiuk explains, is how we manage vulnerable
displaced populations arriving from wars, climate change, or
environmental disasters. We must "adopt a new paradigm

to deal with these issues and lead the world in addressing this mounting
problem. 

"Adopting an approach similar to how it helped displaced persons

at the end of World War II, we can help at least some of these 100
million individuals, without discrimination, by helping those who have
ties to the U.S., or to other developed countries." 

But to make it happen, better leadership is needed.  

Welcome to Wednesday's edition of The Forum Daily, and happy
Immigrant Heritage Month

and Pride Month

to all. I'm Joanna Taylor, Senior Communications Manager at the
Forum. 

Today is my last day at the Forum, and it still hasn't sunk in how
lucky I am to have been a part of the Forum communications team and work
on The Forum Daily since we started it as Noorani's Notes back in
2017. While I'll no longer be on the team, you can still send stories
from your own community to my fabulous colleagues at
[email protected] . And
thank you, as always, for reading.  

CALIFORNIA FARMWORKERS - Employers have reached the limit of
additional H-2B seasonal returning worker visas for the summer, per U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services, reports Andrew Kreighbaum of
Bloomberg Law
.
And with less young undocumented farmworkers coming from Mexico, the
dynamic of farming in California is changing, Eduardo Porter writes for
The New York Times

with photographs from Ryan Christopher Jones. "The new demographic
reality has sent farmers scrambling to bring in more highly paid foreign
workers on temporary guest-worker visas, experiment with automation
wherever they can and even replace crops with less labor-intensive
alternatives," Porter writes. While hiring seasonal workers isn't
cheap, alternatives like automation have their limits, too. Passing the
Farm Workforce Modernization Act

could help.  

TITLE 42 - Title 42 has nothing to do with truly protecting the
public's health, writes Linda Hill, director of the UC San Diego-San
Diego State University General Preventive Medicine Residency, in an
op-ed for The San Diego Union-Tribune
.
"While effective COVID-19 prevention and mitigation strategies have been
identified and implemented, including ongoing masking in high-risk
situations, vaccine and anti-viral medication, policies like Title 42
remain in place - a clear disparity between the evidence-based and
effective public health protocols and the immigration practices," Hill
writes. But as my colleague Danilo Zak told Adam Klepp of Fox 9
, the
policy will remain in place through the rest of this year, at minimum.
And migrants will continue to face dangerous conditions and uncertain
futures while Title 42 winds through court challenges. 

'UNETHICAL' - With resettlement offices stretched thin, Afghan
refugees in California are facing challenges with permanent
resettlement, reports Deepa Fernandes of the San Francisco Chronicle
.
Ahmad, Firoza, and their daughter are among the more than 900 Afghan
evacuees resettled in Sacramento, Oakland, San Jose, and Turlock. But
they have met obstacle after obstacle, from lack of communication from
their caseworker to limited access to grocery stores and a tough housing
market. "Don't just bring the refugees and dump them and say you
should survive on (your) own," said Ahmad Kayello, imam of the Islamic
Center of Modesto. "This is unethical."  

AFGHAN ADJUSTMENT ACT - Congress must honor its promise of providing
safety and security to Afghan allies and their families by passing the
Afghan Adjustment Act
,
writes the editorial board at Bloomberg
.
"Swift passage would allow procedures to be established by the time most
evacuees have been in the U.S. for a year and need to apply for
permanent status," they write. "Further delay risks dragging out the
process uncomfortably close to when their parole status will expire." 

Meanwhile, on local welcome: 

* An Afghan refugee family named their newborn after Selli Abdali, a
volunteer at the Philadelphia International Airport with Afghan
heritage, who urged U.S. officials to treat and transfer the extended
family together as a single unit. (Jeff Gammage, The Philadelphia
Inquirer
) 

* Carter J. Carter, who is sponsoring the Ahmadi family's
resettlement, collaborated with two local churches in Ashfield,
Massachusetts, to help the Ahmadis settle into their new home in Red
Hook, New York. (Greenfield Recorder
) 

Thanks for reading, 

Joanna  

 

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