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THE FORUM DAILY

In response to an earlier 5th Circuit decision

ruling, federal Judge Andrew Hanen ordered on Friday that 600,000-plus
current Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients could
temporarily keep their protections, reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS
News
.
The government would also continue to be prohibited from approving new
applications - a block first implemented in July 2021
. 

After a series of hearings with attorneys on Friday, Hanen issued a
two-page order, which upholds a July 2021 ruling that DACA is
unlawful, in conjunction with his decision to temporarily protect
current DACA recipients. This would apply to the new regulations in the
future, notes Montoya-Galvez. 

Hanen is expected to rule on the legality of the new DACA regulations
soon. 

The Justice Department has yet to announce whether it will appeal the
DACA ruling from earlier this month, a move "that could pave the way for
the Supreme Court to have the final say on DACA's legality," explains
Montoya-Galvez. 

"Once again, Dreamers and DACA recipients are forced to wait on edge for
another court to render a decision that will determine our futures and
the fate of our families," writes DACA recipient Juan Carlos Cerda in an
op-ed for The Dallas Morning News
.  

"For more than a decade, we have been at the mercy of government
indecision that has sown anxiety, instability and legal limbo in our
lives. Congress must end this agony ... If they fail to do so, they will
find themselves scrambling to do so next year, with yet again another
court decision or when the next president decides to end DACA once and
for all," Cerda concluded. 

The bottom line is, sadly, the same as it's been for over a decade:
The future for Dreamers and DACA is still uncertain. Congress must act.
Here is a way to support Dreamers . 

Welcome to Monday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Becka Wall,
the Forum's digital communications VP. If you have a story to share
from your own community, please send it to me at
[email protected] . 

**A SURVIVOR'S WORDS** - In June, 53 smuggled migrants seeking
asylum died after being abandoned in a semitrailer in the deadliest
migrant tragedy

in U.S. history. Dozens more survived the sweltering Texas heat - and
a team at ABC News

interviewed one of them. Marvin Gomez, originally from Guatemala,
recounted in Spanish how he witnessed the deaths of fellow migrants amid
a sense of helplessness: "I wish I could have knocked those doors down
and saved their lives." Gomez used his life savings to journey north
because he wanted his children to have better opportunities. He now
lives in San Francisco with his brother and is trying to pick up the
pieces and start a new life.  

**REBUILDING THEIR LIVES** - The group of mainly Venezuelan migrants
who were unexpectedly sent to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, last
month are mostly settled throughout the state, with two now in New York,
reports Mike Damiano of the Boston Globe
.
Many of them are working to rebuild their lives and find long-term
housing, notes Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, the head of Lawyers for Civil
Rights. Over in New York, asylum seekers are grateful for the
community's support to get back on their feet, but are struggling to
find work in the city due to federal rules on work permits, reports
Karen Zraick of The New York Times
.
And in Chicago, several faith-based groups continue to welcome
immigrants and refugees to the city, sharing lessons they've learned
along the way with Adriana Cardona-Maguigad of WBEZ Chicago/ Curious
City
. 

**'OPERATION PINEAPPLE EXPRESS'** - Scott Mann, a retired Green
Beret who had trained with Afghan special forces commandos in
Afghanistan, participated in an operation that helped evacuate more than
1,000 Afghans after the fall of Kabul last year, per Martin Kuz for The
Christian Science Monitor
.
He is now the author of "Operation Pineapple Express," which tells the
story of the harrowing evacuation. "It's easy to be jaded about what
happened with the withdrawal," said Mann. "But as I was doing research
on this book and interviewing people, the spirit of friendship and
loyalty of those who had fought and bled together, and of perfect
strangers who jumped into the fray and started helping - that was so
uplifting." 

Locally: 

* With support from a relief agency, Sayed Sadat, who formerly worked at
the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, is now helping emergency room patients
at the local Rochester Regional Health Hospital in New York. (Jennifer
Lewke, News10NBC
) 

**RIGHT TO COUNSEL** - New York continues to seek passing a
"first-in-the-nation right" to counsel immigrants in deportation
proceedings, reports Marco Poggio of Law360
.
Dubbed the Access to Representation Act, a bill proposed in January,
"would require the state to appoint an attorney for every person who has
a case before an immigration judge or has a basis to appeal an old
deportation order," Poggio writes. An estimated 180,000 noncitizens in
New York alone have pending immigration proceedings - and more than
52,000 of them are unrepresented, per Syracuse University's
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse data. For Borderless Magazine
,
Chelsea Verstegen dives deep into the challenges behind the shortage of
immigration attorneys in Chicago, and the need to restructure
resources.  

Thanks for reading, 

Becka  

**P.S.** Did you know pickled jalapeños were originally created in a
factory in Xalapa, Mexico? Alan Chazaro, a poet and writer, has its
great origin story in The Los Angeles Times
. 

 

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