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THE FORUM DAILY

On Friday, the Biden administration asked the Supreme Court to allow it
to implement its immigration enforcement priorities

at least temporarily after a district court judge blocked them, Suzanne
Monyak reports in Roll Call
. 

"That judgment is thwarting the Secretary's direction of the
Department he leads and disrupting DHS's efforts to focus its limited
resources on the noncitizens who pose the gravest threat to national
security, public safety, and the integrity of our Nation's borders,"
the filing reads.  

In addition to the stay of the judge's ruling, the administration has
asked the Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on the decision
itself.  

In the request, the administration also notes a trend in which
lower-court judges block nationwide policies, and asks that if nothing
else, the ruling apply only to the judge's district, which includes
Texas and Louisiana. The trend of court rulings determining many
immigration policies gets a closer look from Ariana Figueroa of the
States Newsroom
.  

Editor's note here that Congress could use its power, make better
immigration laws, and stem this trend. 

Looking ahead this week: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
and President Biden are slated to meet tomorrow in D.C., as Mark
Stevenson and Zeke Miller of the Associated Press

report. Migration, as well as food security and economic opportunity,
are among the agenda items. 

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] . 

**MISTREATMENT** - Border Patrol agents lacked clear instructions from
supervisors and were following a request from the Texas Department of
Public Safety when they "used 'unnecessary' force in September
against Black migrants," report Eileen Sullivan and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
of The New York Times
.
That's according to a 500-page report published Friday by Customs and
Border Protection's Office of Professional Responsibility. Four Border
Patrol agents now face discipline over the mistreatment of migrants
crossing into Del Rio, Texas, last year. "To me, this is less about the
individual agents, although they should be held to account for the
specific unprofessional actions they took, but a failure of leadership
to address a situation that was very much overwhelming the patrol at the
time," said Theresa Cardinal Brown of the Bipartisan Policy Center. 

**SOUTHERN BORDER** - In words and photographs, respectively, Nick
Miroff and Eric Thayer of The Washington Post

tell the story of several border challenges the Biden administration is
facing in southern Arizona. In the Tucson sector, "Smugglers guide
[migrants] via cellphone through isolated desert and mountain areas or
send them to blitz the border wall in ones-and-twos, stretching U.S.
agents whose numbers are spread too thin to stop them all." Over in
Yuma, migrant families and children are coming from all over the world
in large groups, requesting asylum. Our take: To help address increases
in migration
,
the administration should implement solutions that look beyond
deterrence
. 

**'UNSUSTAINABLE'** - The American landscaping and gardening
industry can meet high consumer demand via increased immigration, Molly
John, President of the Ohio Green Industry Association, writes for the
Dayton Daily News
.
"Our country's current labor crisis is unsustainable, and it has to
change now," writes John. "We need new policies but getting there
requires a new attitude toward immigration ... I'm asking Ohio leaders
to help Ohio businesses. Welcoming policies will save our industry and
so many others." Ohio business and faith leaders sounded a similar tone
in a meeting last week, as Tyler Thompson of WOSU

reported.   

LEGAL COUNSEL - Since New Jersey county jails stopped detaining
immigrants for ICE last year, the agency has transferred people to other
states, "separating them from free local legal counsel," reports Giulia
McDonnell Nieto Del Rio of Documented
.
As a result, undocumented immigrants like Jose Martin Hercules Aleman,
originally from El Salvador, are going to immigration court without
legal representation. Aleman was also denied immigration bond. "It's
really scary because you don't know what you should respond," Aleman
said via phone in detention. "You don't know anything." 

AFGHAN STORIES - For America Magazine - The Jesuit Review
,
Abi Aswege, a law student with Marquette University Law School in
Wisconsin, reflects on her experience volunteering to help Afghans apply
for asylum at the Fort McCoy military base. For three days, students
listened to their stories and helped thousands with their applications.
"Each of us has stories of Afghan guests who impacted us, and will
always have a place in our hearts," Aswege writes. Serving others and
advocating on their behalf, she writes, "was the way of Christ, who is
the model of pure, unconditional love. He was the master of meeting
people where they were at, tending to the marginalized, forgotten,
shamed and outcast. He showed them love and care regardless of their
social or class status, their nationality, or their political
affiliations." 

Elsewhere in stories of welcome: 

* The nonprofit Chicago chapter of Islamic Circle of North America
Relief (ICNA Relief) hosted a giveaway to Afghan refugees celebrating
Eid al-Adha, which began Saturday. "We just want to make them feel a
little bit special, so they know that we care for them and we're there
for them," said Beena Farid, ICNA Relief's outreach coordinator.
(Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune
) 

* The State Department team that worked with nine resettlement agencies
to resettle almost 72,000 Afghans in five months is a finalist for this
year's Service to American Medals program. (Tom Temin, Federal News
Network
) 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

**P.S.** Congratulations to Ana Isabela de Alba, a daughter of Mexican
immigrant farmworkers who on Friday made history when she became the
first Latina judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District
of California. Juan Esparza Loera of The Fresno Bee

has the story. 

 

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