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THE FORUM DAILY

On Monday, the Biden administration extended Temporary Protected Status
(TPS) for eligible Venezuelans for 18 more months, report Syra
Ortiz-Blanes and Antonio Maria Delgado of the Miami Herald
. 

The move extends humanitarian protection for an estimated 343,000
previously covered Venezuelans in the U.S., allowing them to temporarily
stay, live and work here. 

"This extension not only protects Venezuelans here from being thrown
into legal limbo within the United States, but also by protecting them
from being transferred back to Venezuela, it allows them to safeguard
their lives and physical integrity," said José Antonio Colina, the head
of Miami-based Politically Persecuted Venezuelans in Exile. 

However, the administration did not "redesignate" Venezuela for TPS,
meaning that relief applies only to Venezuelans who arrived in the U.S.
before March 8, 2021.  

"There are a lot of people in our community that are currently not able
to live up to their full potential; they are living with anxiety and
without any sort of security," said Tomás Kennedy, a spokesperson for
Florida Immigrant Coalition. "Good on the extension, but disappointing
on the re-designation." 

Welcome to Tuesday's edition of The Forum Daily and thank you to
the alert reader who let us know about a misspelling we picked up from a
source publication last week. Jina Krause-Vilmar is the CEO of Upwardly
Global. 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]
. 

**TIN AND MO** - For The New York Times
,
Sam Dolnick chronicles the journey and friendship of Tin Chin and Mo
Lin, who became inseparable at a homeless shelter in New York. After
Lin, an undocumented immigrant from China, was jumped and beaten badly
at the shelter, a light bulb went on for Chin: Maybe Lin could qualify
for a U visa, available to immigrant crime victims who help authorities.
Four years later, the visa finally came through. "God or Buddha above
sent me to help Mo," Chin said. "He's undocumented, and I was an
ex-immigration officer. It's not really a coincidence that I met him."
With photos by An Rong Xu, the story shows how, in Dolnick's words,
"friendship can be the defining bond in a person's life, offering a
kinship that family cannot, a refuge through lonely, hungry days."  

GROWING ALLIANCE - The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, FWD.us and the
National Roofing Contractors Association are among several groups that
have recently joined the Alliance for a New Immigration Consensus
(ANIC), a diverse coalition of businesses, faith, law
enforcement, education, and national security leaders working to advance
meaningful immigration reforms, Jeff Brumley reports for Baptist News
Global
.
"Our communities desperately need common-sense immigration solutions for
Dreamers, TPS recipients and farm workers, especially when many of them
are deemed essential workers," said Stephen Reeves, director of advocacy
for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. "The uncertainty of their
immigration status poses a severe risk to the spiritual, emotional,
educational and economic stability of our communities."  

TURNING TO REFUGEES - An increasing number of Iowa businesses are
recruiting resettled refugees and other immigrants to help fill
positions amid the labor shortage, reports Lauren Johnson of KCCI
.
Fifteen years ago, Lily Okech left Sudan to found her own small business
in Des Moines, Cleaning for Hope. "I decided to start a cleaning company
not only for me but to support our community," Okech said. Added her
mentor and business partner Caryn Kelly of Shine Housekeeping, "I really
think that people just need a place where they can heal first of all,
learn and grow and eventually be independent. And be truly a part of the
fabric of our society." Now both Okech and Kelly are partnering with the
Refugee Alliance of Central Iowa to help refugees build their
careers.  

**'INTUMBERO'** - A former refugee herself, Drocella Mugorewera
has started a business to help "Black women, refugees and immigrants
better improve their economic conditions and cultural situations," per
Georgiana Vines in The Knoxville News Sentinel
.
Her new program will involve interactive training and workshops.
"Information is power," said Mugorewera, who is originally from Rwanda.
"I want to help people align together their beliefs, mindset, and
perspective with action for 'Intumbero,'" a Rwandan word meaning
"vision for a brighter future." 

More today on local welcome and support: 

* Resettled Afghan Farzad Sharafi and his wife are settling into their
new home in Rochester, New York, with help from local faith nonprofits
Catholic Charities Family and Community Services and Saint's Place in
Pittsford. "Saint's Place support me with warm boots, warm shoes, and
everything is good," said Sharafi, whose work building community through
skateboard was recently covered in Rochester's CITY News
.
(Randy Gorbman, WXXI
) 

* Mohamed Malim, a former refugee from Kenya, "advocates and empowers
other refugees" through fashion, with his clothing line, Epimonia
. Half of the profits go to refugee organizations
across the country. (Noor Adwan, Sahan Journal
) 

CAREER LADDER - Don't miss the interactive graphics in this one.
Opinion writer Peter Coy at The New York Times

has more on the new book "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of
Immigrant Success," by economists Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. The
authors found that children of immigrants in the U.S. are "exceptionally
good" at working their way up the economic ladder, in part because they
are willing to relocate to places with more job opportunities. "America
really does have golden streets that allow immigrants to quickly make
more than they could have earned at home," Abramitzky and Boustan
write.  

Thanks for reading, 

Dan  

 

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