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THE FORUM DAILY

Our hearts ache for the Haitian migrants who died Sunday after a 30-foot
twin-engine speedboat heading to Miami capsized off the coast of the
Bahamas. At least 17 people, including a toddler, died, Bryan Pietsch
reports in The Washington Post
. 

The boat was carrying an estimated 60 people, including women and
children, when it departed from the northwest side of the capital,
Nassau. Twenty-five people were rescued, per Bahamas Prime Minister
Philip Davis. 

"I understand the situations that many of these migrants face, that have
encouraged them to take such great risk. We, however, appeal to those
considering making such a voyage not to do so," Davis said. 

Desperation continues to drive migrants to try to reach Europe as well:
Over the weekend, the Italian Coast Guard and European charities rescued
more than 1,100 migrants and found five who had perished, the Associated
Press

reports. And Molly Blackall of inews

reports that women and young children trying to reach Europe in search
of a better life are especially prone to burns from fuel leaks on small
boats, according to humanitarian doctors. 

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] . 

ICE ID CARD - As part of an initiative to streamline processes for
migrants in removal proceedings, U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) is developing a new identification card "to serve as
a one-stop shop to access immigration files," Priscilla Alvarez of CNN

reports. The so-called "Secure Docket Card" would include a migrant's
name and nationality, and a QR code would link to a new portal through
which people could update their information and check in with
authorities. "The ICE Secure Docket Card (SDC) program is part of a
pilot program to modernize various forms of documentation provided to
provisionally released noncitizens through a consistent, verifiable,
secure card," an ICE spokesperson said in a statement.  

LIMBO - As next month's one-year anniversary of the fall of Kabul
approaches, Afghan evacuees settling in the U.S. still lack a legal
pathway to permanent residence and citizenship, Mike Woods reports for
Spectrum News 1
.
For evacuees currently on short-term status, such as humanitarian parole
or temporary protected status, the future is uncertain. Waris Samsoor is
one: Having worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, he says that a
return would mean "certain death," per his translator, Rachel Robbins.
An Afghan Adjustment Act

would offer relief both bureaucratic and emotional to Waris, his family,
and thousands of others in the U.S. 

Recently in local welcome: 

* The First United Methodist Church of Claremore in Oklahoma is
sponsoring two recently arrived Ukrainian families, having raised
money to help with paperwork, airfare and apartment furnishings. (Chinh
Doan, News on 6
). 

* Guy Mpoyi, originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, founded a
Bus Ambassadors Program to help asylum seekers in Portland,
Maine, navigate public transportation systems. (Sean Stackhouse, News
Center Maine
)
 

**'NOBODY BELIEVES US'** - Allegations of abuse continue to mount
at ICE facilities across the country, especially in detention centers
with large Black populations, reports Rita Omokha for The Guardian
. Advocacy
organizations such as Freedom for Immigrants (FFI) field thousands of
complaints every month, and Black migrants "experience higher rates of
deportation; sexual, physical, medical, and psychological abuses in
detention; and solitary confinement." Said Patrice Lawrence, executive
director of UndocuBlack, "Nobody believes us when we say they don't
treat us like humans, and they grab us and they abuse us and they hurl
slurs at us and they do not treat us with any form of dignity, much less
compassion." Black immigrants in detention number more than 4,500. 

**REGISTRY DATE** - "[T]his new initiative, as hopeless as it may
seem, makes sense." That's Andy J. Semotiuk's conclusion, in Forbes
,
regarding a bill House Democrats introduced last week that would allow
undocumented immigrants to apply for immigration status after seven
years of residence in the U.S., with a rolling registry date
. (The
current arrival cutoff for registry is Jan. 1, 1972.) Semotiuk points
out some of the thinking behind the original introduction of a registry
date: "For one, it was felt that there was a point beyond which an
undocumented immigrant's contribution to this country outweighed the
harm done. For another, Registry was a recognition of the impracticality
of chasing such people forever." The proposed update would offer relief
for immigrants who have put down deep roots and have come to share
American values- as well as "relieve America of one of its greatest
burdens."  

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

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