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THE FORUM DAILY

For the first time, a U.S. reporter offers a window into how
Transnational Criminal Investigative Units (TCIUs) operate.  

Axios
'
Stef W. Kight witnessed a specialized group of Guatemala's national
police, trained by U.S. Homeland Security officials, raid a home and
seize evidence of efforts to make fraudulent visas. The police group is
meant "to crack down on migrant and drug smuggling, human trafficking,
fraud and other crimes that impact American security." 

The Guatemalan TCIU has been working with the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security since 2011 and is now the largest in the world, Kight
reports. 

"We're extending the border," said Ricardo Mayoral, deputy assistant
director at Homeland Security Investigations. "We're providing the
capacity, the training to our partners in the Western Hemisphere and
other areas of the world" to stop criminal and clandestine networks from
entering the U.S.  

With another cheer for Frances Tiafoe after his U.S. Open quarterfinal
victory yesterday
,
welcome to Thursday'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] . 

**PUBLIC CHARGE RULE** - New this morning: The Biden administration
has published a final rule to roll back the Trump administration's
"public charge" rule
,
Rebecca Beitsch reports in The Hill
.
The current administration already had stopped defending the rule in
court last year. "This action ensures fair and humane treatment of legal
immigrants and their U.S. citizen family members," DHS
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a release. "Consistent with
America's bedrock values, we will not penalize individuals for
choosing to access the health benefits and other supplemental government
services available to them."  

**HEALTH CARE ACCESS** - Speaking of accessing health care: Many
undocumented immigrants in the U.S. continue to delay or forgo health
care treatment because of fear of deportation, the cost of medical care
and other reasons, reports Priyanka Runwal of the National Geographic
.
The unique health care challenges
adult
undocumented immigrants face "are having nationwide consequences,"
Runwal writes. "I don't feel like [medical professionals] see me the
same way as they see someone who's American," said Imelda, an asylum
seeker from Mexico, who initially contracted COVID-19 as an undocumented
and uninsured patient. "I wish everyone was treated the same." For
Northern Public Radio
,
Maria Gardner Lara interviews Luvia Quiñones, senior health policy
director for the Illinois Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, who
underscores: "We all have a right to healthcare."  

**'MORE HARM THAN GOOD'** - Health experts and others say the
continuing use of Title 42 is doing "more harm than good," Valerie
Gonzalez reports in The Guardian
.
According to a recent estimate
,
about 55,500 people are waiting along the U.S.-Mexico border with Title
42 still in place. "Health care workers have not only corroborated the
high levels of violence against migrants in northern Mexico, they have
reported that asylum-seekers expelled from the U.S. have been forced to
live in increasingly unsafe and unsanitary conditions," Physicians for
Human Rights wrote in a Title 42-related amicus brief
 last
month.  

**AFGHANS' UNCERTAINTY** - For The Christian Science Monitor
,
Sarah Matusek tells the story of Afghan evacuees including Aida and
Maryam - names changed for their family's safety - who came to the
U.S. via humanitarian parole and have found refuge in muay thai, or Thai
boxing, in Denver. "Without my family, it is so hard for me," Maryam
said. But the class at a Denver gym helps, "because they are like my
family." Edrees, another parolee, captures his welcome and uncertainty
in a single breath: "I feel like I'm part of something good. What's
going to happen next?" As Matusek notes, advocates have been urging
Congress to pass the bipartisan Afghan Adjustment Act
,
which would provide Afghan evacuees already in the U.S. a path to
permanent residency.  

Locally: 

* Rabina Aqa Jan, a senior at Our Lady of Mercy School for Young Women
in Rochester, N.Y., is being honored for her work helping other
resettled Afghans, including organizing a pillow drive and assisting a
few women with English. (Eriketa Cost, WROC
) 

* To bookend the summer, Camp "Silah," meaning connection in Arabic,
welcomed 130 young refugees to Rockaway Beach, Oregon, including youth
from Afghanistan and Iraq. (Christelle Koumoué, KGW
) 

**'THEY GAIN CONFIDENCE'** - Kaushila Khanal Karmacharya and her
family had to flee Bhutan when she was a child, and she grew up in a
refugee camp in Nepal - where she first encountered taekwondo, Peter
Gill reports in The Columbus Dispatch
.
She is now the founder of Sunshine Taekwondo Academy in Reynoldsburg,
Ohio, teaching more than 200 students in three different languages.
"Taekwondo is for self-defense and for health. But it's also about
socialization - kids come here and they gain confidence," Karmacharya
said in Nepali. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

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