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THE FORUM DAILY

In a 5-4 vote on Thursday, the Supreme Court decided not to lift an
injunction blocking the Biden administration's immigration
enforcement guidelines
 meant
to prioritize threats to national security and public safety, Robert
Barnes and Maria Sacchetti of The Washington Post

report.  

A district judge in Texas had blocked the policy, and the 5th Circuit
Court of Appeals previously had refused to put the judge's ruling on
hold pending appeal. The Supreme Court will hear the merits of the case
in December, but in the meantime, the guidance is not in effect.  

"Thousands of DHS employees across the Nation have been told that they
must disregard their training and stop considering the Secretary's
instructions," Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar wrote in a July 8
emergency stay request. "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." 

As Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports for CBS News
,
the case is among several in which Republican-led states have blocked
parts of Biden's immigration agenda.   

Welcome to Friday'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] . 

**'DOCUMENTED DREAMERS'** - The Senate should permit "documented
Dreamers" to stay in the country, as an amendment to the 2023 National
Defense Authorization Act would do, Bloomberg
's
editorial board writes. "Failing to do so would harm not just legal
immigrants and their families but the country as a whole," they write.
"America's long-term growth prospects require that the country bring
in more knowledge workers from abroad, particularly in the sciences and
technology. Ensuring the children of those workers can stay and build
lives in the U.S. is critical to winning the war for talent - and is a
necessary a step toward creating the immigration system the country
needs." 

**AMBASSADOR FOR CITIZENSHIP** - USCIS recently announced a
"citizenship ambassador" program meant to help eligible permanent
residents navigate the naturalization process, and Myriam Mézadieu is
the first such ambassador for South Florida, Isabel Olmos reports in the
Miami Herald
.
Mézadieu, director of operations for Catholic Legal Services of the
Archdiocese of Miami, immigrated to the U.S. from Haiti and submitted
her own citizenship application on Sept. 11, 2001. "I feel humbled
because we [ambassadors] have to explain that more than 200 years after
our founding as a nation, naturalized citizens are still an important
part of American democracy," Mézadieu said. "Citizenship is the common
thread that connects all Americans. The United States is a nation bound
not by race or religion, but by the shared values of freedom, liberty
and equality." 

**COMMUNITY TRUST** - The Arlington County Board in Virginia has
passed a trust policy

that limits county cooperation with federal immigration officials,
reports Teo Armus of The Washington Post
.
The policy is "meant to encourage undocumented residents in the Northern
Virginia suburb to seek help from police and use other government
resources." The policy directs that county resources not be used for
immigration enforcement and prohibits police and other county employees
from asking people's immigration statuses, but it does not block
police from working with ICE altogether. 

**BOOK CLUB** - In a piece adapted from former Forum president and
CEO Ali Noorani's latest book, "Crossing Borders: The Reconciliation
of a Nation of Immigrants," The Deseret News

gives us a snapshot of how Idaho's dairy farm industry might point to
immigration solutions. "While national leadership certainly matters,
durable solutions to the politics of immigration do not start at the
top," Ali writes. "Institutions and leaders at the local level, who are
deeply enmeshed in the culture and values of their community, are
critical. ... [I]n Magic Valley, where locals began working alongside
their newest neighbors on dairy farms dotting the expanse of central
Idaho, something uniquely American occurred: they found human solutions
to some of the nation's more pressing immigration issues." 

**BOOK-TO-STAGE CLUB** - A limited viewing of the Broadway adaptation
of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel, The Kite Runner, opened
Thursday night, reports Jeff Lunden of NPR
.
Hosseini's novel, released in 2003, sold more than 7 million copies
and was later adapted into a movie. The novel follows the main
character Amir's escape from Afghanistan to America after the 1979
Soviet invasion of the country. "The best thing about this whole
experience for me is that people have walked away from this book with an
appreciation for the plight of Afghan people, for the plight of refugees
and displaced people," Hosseini said.  

In local welcome:  

* The Muncie Afghan Refugee Resettlement Committee has been working to
welcome 115 new Afghan evacuees to their new home in Indiana. The
volunteer group was established in 2021 and provides resettlement
services for evacuees, including housing and employment support, among
other services. (Robin Gibson, Muncie Star Press
) 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

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