From Dan Gordon, National Immigration Forum <[email protected]>
Subject ‘Find a Way’
Date December 13, 2022 3:31 PM
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THE FORUM DAILY

What could lead people to walk for days or even weeks amid all kinds of
risks? It's hard to answer when one hasn't been in such a desperate
situation. 

A large group of migrants crossed the Rio Grande near El Paso, Texas,
and turned themselves in to federal authorities for processing on
Sunday, reports Corrie Boudreaux of El Paso Matters
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Estimates of the group's size vary, but it was one of the largest
single crossings in the area. 

A team at The New York Times
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more about the strain on border facilities and nonprofits. State Sen.
César J. Blanco, who represents the area, has called on state and
federal governments to send humanitarian aid to help. 

Other challenges include that the U.S. is limited in turning away or
repatriating migrants from Nicaragua, where many in the group of
migrants are from. That's because of a "strained" relationship with
Nicaragua's authoritarian government. 

The Times reporters note that challenges could expand with the
court-ordered end of Title 42 next week. The need for Congress to
fast-track border spending and resources, in addition to other crucial
reforms,
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is clear. 

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is scheduled to meet officials in El
Paso today, the Times reports. And Reps. Henry Cuellar (D) and Tony
Gonzales (R) of Texas are scheduled to meet Customs and Border
Protection officials in D.C. tomorrow to discuss border resources ahead
of Title 42's end, reports Sandra Sanchez of Border Report
<[link removed]>. 

To end with some compassion: Christy Staats, one of our Midwest
mobilizers, recently wrote
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the need to respond to with mercy at and beyond our borders. And let's
take a minute to process Carmen's words in El Paso Matters: "I am
traumatized from threats in my country and I am traumatized from the
kidnapping [in Mexico]. All I want is to arrive at a place that is safe.
That is all we're asking for." 

Welcome to Tuesday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Dan
Gordon, the Forum's strategic communications VP, and the great Forum
Daily team also includes Dynahlee Padilla-Vasquez, Clara Villatoro and
Katie Lutz. If you have a story to share from your own community, please
send it to me at [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>. 

ORGANIZED CRIME - Whom does border inaction benefit? Organized
criminal networks are purposely pushing migrants through new breach
points along the Arizona border, putting a larger strain on Border
Patrol resources, report Ali Bradley and Devan Markham of NewsNation
<[link removed]>.
"[M]y husband was threatened with death if he didn't work with the
cartels," one migrant woman told Bradley. "He didn't want to. We want
asylum because if he doesn't work with them, they will kill us."

SUPPORTING NEW ARRIVALS - Good news regarding welcoming legal
immigrants: The Biden administration is restarting the Task Force on New
Americans to support the integration of immigrants and refugees in the
U.S., reports Colleen Long of the Associated Press
<[link removed]>.
Led by the Domestic Policy Council, the task force will focus on
workforce training, education, financial access, language learning and
health, per the administration. The renewed task force also plans to
review existing integration policies and programs from the mid-2000s
"and work to sharpen them and identify new key areas of need."   

REFORMS NEEDED - Midwestern farmers are pushing Congress to pass the
Farm Workforce Modernization Act
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writes Gary Abernathy in a column for The Washington Post
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An earned pathway to citizenship "coupled with making legal immigration
easier and faster, to make that path more attractive," could be a viable
solution, Abernathy notes. "[T]he overwhelming majority of migrants come
here for a better life for themselves and their families. They risk
their lives to escape hopeless futures and travel through perilous
terrain," he writes. "When people want to come here that badly - and
are willing to work for us in jobs we desperately need to fill -
can't we find a way to let them?" Abernathy writes. Meanwhile, in a
letter to the Kansas City Star
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Kurt Rietema calls on senators to improve our immigration system now. 

HAITAINS' LEGACY - For the Miami Herald
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Jacqueline Charles reports on the journey of Haitian migrants in the
U.S. - and on the boat 50 years ago that started it all. "When their
leaking, 56-foot wooden sailboat finally made landfall 40 miles north of
Miami in Pompano Beach on Dec. 12, 1972, there was no family or Haitian
community to welcome them, or protesters lining the shorelines demanding
their freedom," Charles writes. Eventually, Haitian migrants rallied
with a group of Black Baptist ministers, Catholic priests, and Haitian
exiles in New York to challenge U.S. immigration and detention policies.
"Their victory over the cold sea shows our children every day that they
can do anything," said Sandy Dorsainvil, who helped organize an event
Monday commemorating the arrival.  

AFGHAN WOMEN - Not wanting her daughters to grow up under Taliban
rule, Yalda Royan fled to the U.S. with them last year. Now she is an
Afghanistan Technical Team Leader with the nonprofit VOICE
<[link removed]>, which uses art to uplift the stories of
refugee women around the world, reports Zach Merchant of WUSA9
<[link removed]>.
An art exhibit highlighting these stories was recently displayed at the
National Mall in Washington, D.C. Royan hopes that the artwork shows the
world the Afghanistan she dreams of. Speaking of beautiful art, Brooklyn
Stephens of We Welcome <[link removed]> writes a
long-form poem
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with no home and urges Congress to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act
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From a different angle, The Wall Street Journal
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editorial board agrees.  

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

 

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