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THE FORUM DAILY

The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) is
among the advocacy and faith groups renewing calls to Congress to pass a
permanent legislative solution for Dreamers, per the Baptist Press
.  

"Dreamers are invaluable members of our churches and communities, and
they will continue to live in uncertainty as long as Congress delays,"
said Hannah Daniel, the ERLC's policy manager (and a Forum alumna).
"... Congress must act with urgency to pass a permanent, legislative
solution that provides stability to these young people who have known no
other home but ours." 

The day of the appeals court ruling on DACA last week, the Evangelical
Immigration Table sent a letter signed by more than 1,000 evangelicals
from all 50 states, urging Congress to act, the article notes. And in a
recent Lifeway Research poll
,
80% of self-identified evangelical respondents said they would back
immigration reforms that include a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers
along with stronger border security and addressing farmers' labor
needs.  

Meanwhile, in the Des Moines Register
,
Chief Michael Tupper of Marshalltown, Iowa, emphasizes the trust law
enforcement have built with Dreamers: "Everyone loses if Dreamers'
legal protections are cut off. Our communities would see a decrease of
constructive partners with civil responsibility, and law enforcement
officers, like me, would lose the ability to serve them and collaborate
with them for everyone's safety."  

And if you're looking for the details on last week's court ruling
and what happens next, see our new explainer
. 

Welcome to Tuesday'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] .  

**AFGHAN ADJUSTMENT ACT** - More than 17,400 Afghan evacuees brought
to the U.S. under humanitarian parole

have filed applications for asylum or Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) as
Congress stalls on taking up the bipartisan Afghan Adjustment Act
,
reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS News
.
Amid a backlogged asylum system, the bill would streamline the route to
permanent status for evacuees after additional vetting, he notes. As of
Oct. 2, USCIS had received more than 8,200 asylum requests from Afghans,
per unpublished DHS data, and had approved 460. "If I go back to
Afghanistan, my life will be in danger because the Taliban already have
the list of the educated girls in Afghanistan," said Daryaa, an Arizona
State University student. "That's why I request the government to take
action as soon as possible." In 2021, Congress was mandated to process
these asylum requests within five months. Hibah Ansari of the Sahan
Journal

has more on the bill. 

Meanwhile, on local welcome: 

* Marine Maj. Dominic Chiaverotti and his former Afghan interpreter Zia
recently reunited in San Francisco after Chiaverotti helped evacuate
Zia's wife, who was then pregnant, amid the chaos in Kabul last year.
"We'll never forget the help," Zia said. The video is worth watching.
(Lauren Toms, CBS Bay area
) 

* Hashmat Nadirpor, a lawyer who fled Afghanistan, is now helping
professionals find work and refuge via the Scholars At Risk
program at the University of
California Irvine School of Law. (Zarina Khairzada, Spectrum News 1
) 

**CHILDREN WAITING** - More than 9,000 unaccompanied migrant children
and teens are in federal custody, per the latest data from the federal
Office of Refugee Resettlement. Most are from Central America, but
dozens of Afghan children and teens are especially at risk and
traumatized, reports Melissa Sanchez of ProPublica
.
Some have even been in custody for a year. Afghan youth have expressed
"extreme distress" about whether reports of "'significant incidents'
that affect children's health, well-being or safety" will be used
against them or impact their families still stuck in Afghanistan, notes
Neha Desai, senior director of immigration for the National Center for
Youth Law. Sanchez speaks with advocates Jane Liu and Azadeh Erfani
about their recent report
on the incident
reporting system and how it might improve. One recommendation: "actually
train staff in crisis prevention," Erfani said. 

**MIGRANT TRANSPORT** - New documents released Friday in response to
public records requests reveal that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) had
solicited bids for other migrant transport out of state, report Mike
Damiano and Samantha J. Gross of the Boston Globe
.
At least one business that submitted a bid was under the impression that
the job entailed transporting nonviolent criminals who were
unauthorized immigrants to Massachusetts. Meanwhile, Valerie Gonzalez of
The Monitor

compares the challenges New York City is facing as it receives migrants
with how cities in the Rio Grande Valley have responded. One key
difference, as McAllen Mayor Javier Villalobos notes, is that migrants
are likely to stay in New York City, whereas most stay along the border
only briefly. See our detailed explainer here

on governors' transport of migrants to other states. 

**INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES** - Migrants from Latin America who speak
Indigenous languages have continued to face challenges seeking health
care in the U.S., especially amid the pandemic, reports Priyanka Runwal
of National Geographic
.
Advocacy groups including the Los Angeles nonprofit Comunidades
Indígenas en Liderazgo and New York-based
Endangered Language Alliance have stepped
in to help, Runwal notes. Together, they've collected data on where in
Los Angeles Indigenous groups live, and their native languages, to
create maps. They then used the data to further secure funding from
county and city health departments to develop and distribute information
on COVID tests, treatments, and vaccines, inclusive of their Indigenous
languages. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan  

 

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