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THE FORUM DAILY

Amazon.com has joined several organizations in their efforts to retain
global talent amid the current labor shortage, reports Andrew Kreighbaum
of Bloomberg Law
.  

In partnership with us, the Fortune 500 company recently launched its
"Welcome Door" program
,
aimed at supporting refugees and immigrants with legal support for their
naturalization applications and financial aid for work permit fees.  

"Being able to promote this benefit when the employee is signing on is
huge," said Helena Coric, the Forum's senior manager of integration
programs. "Knowing an employer is going to provide this deeply
discounted legal assistance can really increase retention, especially if
that employer ends up extending the benefit to an immediate family
member as well." 

Elsewhere, here's something to keep an eye on next week: The president
will "present a plan to tackle increasing migration when he hosts the
Summit of the Americas," which begins Monday in Los Angeles, Matt
Spetalnick reports for Reuters
.
We'll be watching to see how the U.S. works with other countries to
address northward migration. More on the Summit of the Americas just
below. 

Welcome to Thursday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Becka
Wall, the Forum's digital communications VP. If you have a story to
share from your own community, please send it to me at
[email protected].    

**REFUGEE DEALS?** - Spain could, for the first time, resettle
refugees from the Western Hemisphere, reports Stef W. Kight of Axios
.
An agreement could be announced at the Summit of the Americas. Documents
suggest that the nation, which is [also] enduring a labor shortage,
would resettle a " 'modest' but 'symbolically important' "
number of refugees in addition to multiplying its admission of temporary
workers from Central America. Canada might also announce an increased
commitment to resettle refugees from our hemisphere and recruit Haitians
to come to Canada to work, the documents suggest. This is an opportunity
not only for regional cooperation, but also for the U.S. to reaffirm our
commitments to immigration and humanitarian protections for migrants.
Will we rise to the occasion?  

**TITLE 42** - Despite a recent court ruling that keeps Title 42 in
place, migrants are still seeking safety. In his report for NPR
,
Kirk Siegler visits the border and speaks with Sheriff David Hathaway of
Nogales County, Arizona, among others. For the Texas Observer
, James
Dobbins examines the effects of Title 42 expulsions, centering on the
plight of Haitians. "The people of Haiti, mired in poverty, hostage to
the terror, kidnappings, robberies, massacres of armed gangs, and
suffering under a corrupt government with gang alliances, simply cannot
support the forced infusion of thousands of returned migrants lacking
food, shelter, and money without additional, avoidable tragedy," wrote
Daniel Foote, the former special envoy for Haiti, in his resignation
letter last September. Two other quick hits: To manage migration in a
secure and humane way, coordinated efforts among the entire Western
Hemisphere is key, writes Dan Restrepo, Senior Fellow at the Center for
American Progress, in an op-ed for Foreign Affairs
.
And locally, Michigan is ready to welcome more asylum seekers without
the use of Title 42, a group of educators and immigrant advocates write
for The Michigan Daily
.  

**AFGHAN WOMEN** - Global leaders need to stand up more actively for
Afghan women still stuck in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, write Kelley
Currie and Amy K. Mitchell, former U.S. government officials, in an
op-ed for Foreign Policy
.
The international community "must engage Afghan civil society -
especially women - with greater respect and make a point of elevating
their participation," they write. The U.S. should also "invest real
resources in women, activists, community-based organizations, and others
who are genuinely working to rebuild damaged societies and advance human
freedom." 

In local Afghan welcome: 

* In partnership with State College, Pennsylvania's University Baptist
and Brethren Church, University Mennonite Church and Congregation Brit
Shalom are sponsoring an Afghan refugee family, helping them "find jobs,
housing, and healthcare." (Danny Gotwals, The Daily Collegian
) 

* Local churches, resettlement agencies, and immigrant communities have
welcomed the Shinwari family, helping them make connections, get access
to transportation, find work, and enroll in school. (Nina Moini,
Minnesota Public Radio News
) 

**REUNIFICATION VISAS** - Cubans like Roberto De la Yglesia were
hoping to reunite with the rest of their family members under the
reactivated Family Reunification Program starting in April, reports
Andrea Rodríguez of the Associated Press
.
Yet, they are still waiting for their paperwork to be processed. A
backlogged system of an estimated 20,000 visa applications (since 2017
alone), several Trump administration restrictions, and pandemic-related
delays have only further complicated the challenges. "My life is on
pause," said Roberto's wife, Danmara Triana in Cienfuegos, Cuba. "My
day-to-day life hangs on this - to see my son, to see my husband... "I
get up in the morning and look at the telephone. Will I have an
interview [for a visa] or won't I have an interview."  

**GREAT REPLACEMENT** - If the Great Replacement Theory

were accurate, President Ronald Reagan's signing of the 1986 bill that
granted amnesty to millions of immigrants should have been a death knell
for the Republican Party, conservative columnist Jeff Jacoby writes in
the Boston Globe
.
"It's all nonsense," Jacoby concludes. "There is no 'great
replacement' in the offing. Voting patterns are not coded in DNA or
determined by ethnic identity. No party owns the votes of immigrants.
[Reagan] understood that in his bones. What a scandal that so many of
today's Republican leaders are blind to such a fundamental American
truth."  

Thanks for reading, 

Becka

 

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