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THE FORUM DAILY

It's right there in the Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force's
principles : "Law enforcement should
spend its limited time and resources focusing on pursuing truly
dangerous criminals, not otherwise law-abiding members of the
community."  

On Friday, Judge Drew Tipton of the Texas Southern District Court put a
crimp in that approach. Tipton ruled

that immigration authorities cannot follow enforcement guidelines

the Biden administration established to prioritize public-safety
threats, as Priscilla Alvarez of CNN

reports. 

Meanwhile, Mexico's migration agency "issued nearly 7,000 temporary
documents and transit visas" to a large group of migrants last week, per
the Associated Press
:
"[M]igrants showed papers that gave them a period of one month or more
to leave the country or begin regularization procedures in Mexico."  

These developments come as the Summit of the Americas concluded, with
the Biden administration and Latin American countries agreeing to a
migration deal to help manage flows for vulnerable migrants seeking
asylum, The New York Times
'
Michael D. Shear reports. The U.S. pledged to take 20,000 refugees from
Latin America during the next two years, a threefold increase, per
administration officials, in addition to increasing the number of
seasonal worker visas from Central America and Haiti by 11,500. 

"Our common humanity demands that we care for our neighbors by working
together," said President Biden. "Each of us is signing up to
commitments that recognizes the challenges we all share." 

As we've noted
,
moving toward a comprehensive regional response is a positive step. 

A final quick word coming out of the weekend: The Senate's deal on gun
legislation shows that bipartisanship is possible. Next up, senators,
how about immigration and border reforms? 

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

UKRAINIAN REFUGEES - The number of Ukrainian refugees stands at about
5 million. As Stuart Anderson writes in Forbes
,
the U.S. is using humanitarian parole, which provides no path to
permanent residence. "Private and community sponsorship is great,
something which is happening in the context of the Afghan and Ukraine
parole efforts," said Mark Hetfield, president and CEO of HIAS. But
"[b]y using parole, we are bringing refugees here without the pathway to
lawful permanent residence and citizenship that refugees are provided by
the Refugee Act." The war's effects are rippling out to other parts of
the world as well, with nearly half of Somalia's population "facing
acute food shortages," reports Abdi Latif Dahir of The New York Times

(with stark photos by Malin Fezehai). 

**POLICY CHALLENGES** - For WORLD Magazine
, Addie
Michaelian dives deep into the challenges of Title 42 winding through
the courts. "We are basically in what I would call litigation pingpong,"
said Theresa Cardinal Brown, managing director of immigration and
cross-border policy with the Bipartisan Policy Center. "No one really
knows what policy will be in place tomorrow." Yes, border policy should
go beyond Title 42
.
Meanwhile, in The San Diego Tribune
,
Kate Morrissey sheds light on the plight of Haitian migrants waiting in
Tijuana for the policy to lift, with powerful photos by Ana Ramirez. For
more on how the policy is affecting migrants, check out Claire Moses'
conversation with reporter Eileen Sullivan in The New York Times
.  

SHAPING THE FUTURE - This year, 368 students enrolled at Las Americas
Newcomer School in Houston, a school for asylum-seeking, immigrant, and
refugee children - including 90 Afghan refugees, reports Katie Reilly
of TIME magazine
.
Students here speak more than 30 languages combined. "My mission is to
make sure that we put those families on a successful path, so they can
be our next doctors, our next engineers, and provide them with the
opportunity that they want to strive to be," said Marie Moreno, the
school's longtime principal who just departed.  

Meanwhile, in local Afghan Welcome: 

* United States Air Force Senior Airman and Liberty University alum
Grace Tinkey contributed to Operation Allies Refuge, which helped Afghan
civilians flee during the U.S. military's departure: "I felt like it
was my job to help make the process as easy for them as possible and do
anything I could to make them feel more comfortable and safer." (Ryan
Klinker, Liberty University
) 

* The follow-up on a story we teased last week: "How often are we
presented with an opportunity to change somebody's life?" said Ann
Wittman, an Afghan volunteer from Ellisville, Missouri. "I had to take
it." (Kayla Drake, St. Louis Public Radio
)  

* The new "Welcome Sesame," from the Sesame Workshop
, offers educational materials to
Afghan and Ukrainian refugee families, "available in Dari, Pashto,
Ukrainian, Spanish, and English, and [covering] subjects ranging from
coping with the trauma of resettlement to fostering a sense of
belonging." (Michael Grothaus, Fast Company
) 

**ARIZONA** - In the absence of federal immigration reforms, states
continue to try to step in. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) and Republican
legislative leaders have proposed spending $544 million taxpayer dollars
on border security, reports Jeremy Duda of Axios
,
even as Ducey spokesperson C.J. Karamargin acknowledges that "[t]his
ultimately is a federal responsibility ...." Not all Republicans are
aboard: Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita said the state's surplus should
focus more on "providing additional tax relief to Arizonans who are
suffering from inflation and high gas prices."  

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

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