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THE FORUM DAILY

Eduardo (Eddie) Canales of Brooks County, Texas, helps families reunite
with loved ones who have gone missing along the border - whether
they're alive or not, reports Rachel Monroe of  The New Yorker
. 

Canales, through his nonprofit South Texas Human Rights Center, has
quickly become the go-to person to help families navigate the daunting
process - amid challenging terrain and linguistic barriers. His phone
number is now circulating across several migrant-assistance networks and
Facebook groups. And he has been able to build rapport with the
sheriff's department and some Border Patrol agents.  

The center also makes water available along migration routes to avert
deaths from thirst. 

Like Canales, "I care about people," said Nora Salinas, a former
sheriff's office employee and justice of peace who now works for the
center. "... It doesn't matter who is missing out there. They have
loved ones." 

This year is on track to be the deadliest on record in Brooks County,
with close to 70 recoveries of remains so far.  

Welcome to Thursday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan
Gordon, the Forum's strategic communications VP, and today our
hearts and prayers go out to the families, friends, and colleagues of
Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Indiana) and her staffers who were killed in a
car crash yesterday afternoon.  

We're pausing the Daily on Fridays this month, so we'll be back
Monday. If you have a story to share from your own community, let us
know at [email protected] .

DISCRETION - A court ruling that has forced the Biden administration
to halt its immigration enforcement priorities is causing ripple effects
for undocumented immigrants as well as ICE, Suzanne Monyak reports in
Roll Call
.
The lack of unified guidance that had prioritized national security
threats could lead to "some inconsistent decision-making across the
country and threaten agency operations long-term," Monyak writes. "If
you don't know from one day to the next what the rules are, it's
really hard to operate," added Theresa Cardinal Brown, a DHS policy
official during the George W. Bush administration. 

'CONGRESS SHOULDN'T WAIT' - A few more beats on the drum for
reforms: On Wednesday, a New York judge denied a request on behalf of at
least 80,000 first-time Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
applicants to resume their applications, reports Patricia Hurtado of
Bloomberg News
.
Current DACA recipients also remain in limbo: Christy Staats, a Midwest
mobilizer for the Forum, writes in the Cleveland Plain Dealer

about her friend Karla, a contributing member of the community who lacks
certainty. "Dreamers don't have the luxury to ask the courts to wait
until after the 2022 midterm elections to determine their future in
America," Staats writes. "Congress shouldn't wait either." Meanwhile,
on the ag front, Sabrina Halvorson of AgNet Media, Inc.

reports that the Agriculture Workforce Coalition sent a letter to Senate

leaders this week, urging them to pass the Farm Workforce Modernization
Act

now "to provide stability for our existing workers and make key reforms
to the H-2A program."  

MISLEADING NARRATIVES - As midterm elections ramp up, Republicans are
centering and amplifying dangerous anti-immigrant rhetoric in their
political ad campaigns, reports Joel Rose of NPR
.
"This type of rhetoric, it's meant to agitate people for political
reasons ... because it makes people feel anger and hate," said Vanessa
Cárdenas, the deputy director of America's Voice. As Rose points out,
the rhetoric has ties to Great Replacement Theory - see our resources
here
.
Rose also notes former president Trump's use of such language.
Speaking of Trump, Stuart Anderson has an analysis in Forbes

of what immigration could like if Trump returns to office.  

JUDGE'S ORDER - President Biden immediately ended his
predecessor's ban on the arrival of people from certain, mostly Muslim
countries. Now a judge has ordered that the administration develop new
rules for allowing the entry of first-time visa applicants who were
denied visas under the bans, reports Bob Egelko for The San Francisco
Chronicle
.
"We are thrilled that the court heard the pleas of our plaintiffs and
saw through the government's attempts to brush aside the very real harms
inflicted by the Muslim ban, which continues even after its rescission,"
said attorney Shabnam Lofti. 

RESETTLEMENT

**PROCESS** - Afghan evacuees were not resettled through the formal
refugee process, leaving their futures in doubt, Lautaro Grinspan writes
in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
.
Their humanitarian parole status is temporary, and without legislative
relief, they are faced with a deadline to apply for asylum. "Many
refugees and immigrant groups start their own businesses. How do you
start a business if you don't even know you're going to be here in a
year?" said Justin Howell, executive director of the International
Rescue Committee (IRC) in Atlanta, whose organization is among those
guiding evacuees through their asylum applications and helping them
acclimate to the U.S. Regarding refugees, 30 Democratic senators urged
the Biden administration to increase the refugee admissions cap and
"take proactive steps" to admit more refugees in fiscal year 2023, per
Nicole Rosenthal of Law360
. 

Locally: 

* Plymouth Congregational Church and 18 co-sponsors will host a free
pingpong party Saturday to benefit Afghan evacuees in Helena, Montana.
(Kennedy Broadwell, Montana Sports
) 

* PBS Wisconsin Education is collaborating with local resettlement
agencies and organizations to provide newly arrived refugee students
backpacks full of "comfort item[s] such as a plush toy or handmade
quilt." (Tara Lovdahl, PBS Wisconsin
) 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

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