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THE FORUM DAILY

A group of 20 Republican-led states and a top conservative legal group
sued the Biden administration on Tuesday over expanded humanitarian
parole
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reports Adam Shaw of Fox News
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Led by Texas and America First Legal (headed by Stephen Miller), the
plaintiffs argue
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that the government's parole power is "exceptionally limited" and
meant to be used on a "case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian
reasons or significant public benefit," a requirement they say the
program does not meet. 

Before we go further, we'll note that the U.S. has used humanitarian
parole for decades to welcome groups of vulnerable migrants. The process
has been around since the 1950s - far longer than even our refugee
resettlement system. 

The plaintiffs also argue that the administration did not engage in the
official notice-and-comment rulemaking process required by the
Administrative Procedure Act - "by which a number of immigration
policies have been at least temporarily struck down in recent years,"
Shaw notes. 

For the administration's part, it believes the new approach is
working, with the decrease in encounters with Venezuelans as evidence.
"Even as overall encounters rose [in December] because of smugglers
spreading misinformation around the court-ordered lifting of the Title
42 public health order, we continued to see a sharp decline in the
number of Venezuelans unlawfully crossing our southwest border, down 82%
from September 2022," acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner
Troy Miller said in a statement last week.  

For more on this lawsuit, see Camilo Montoya-Galvez's piece in CBS
News
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From our perspective, expanded parole is a good thing and within the
president's discretion. But also, the continuing pingpong of
administrative actions and lawsuits is all the more reason for both
parties in Congress to step in and provide long-term solutions. 

Welcome to Wednesday'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]>. 

**FIXING OUR BROKEN SYSTEM** - The need for lasting solutions from
Congress is also a theme in Forum Senior Fellow Linda Chavez's latest
piece in The xxxxxx
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With Republicans playing politics, Democrats divided, and the
president's power limited, fixing our broken immigration system has
become only more challenging, she writes. Meanwhile, following a group
of bipartisan senators' visit to the border, borderlands resident
Laurie Jurs offers some solid solutions in an op-ed for the Arizona
Daily Star
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**GROWTH VIA IMMIGRATION** - Within two decades, U.S. population
growth will be driven primarily by immigration, according to previews
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Office. The projections show a population of 373 million by 2053, which
is about 3 million more than the CBO had expected last year, as
Alexandre Tanzi of Bloomberg
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reports. The CBO projects that by 2042, deaths in the current population
are expected to exceed births, "meaning only immigration will expand the
population." 

**AFGHAN ALLIES IN KABUL** - Alex Plitsas, a U.S. Army veteran, is
still working on bringing Afghan evacuees to the country, reports
Christopher Keating of the Hartford Courant
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"We had rented or leased about 70 apartment buildings, and we were
hiding and feeding almost 10,000 people across the country," said
Plitsas, one of the leaders of the nonprofit Human First Coalition
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have experienced transportation issues in Kabul since November, notes
Keating.   

**NEWCOMER ACADEMY** - The Newcomer Academy in Louisville, Kentucky,
continues to be "a landing pad" for some thousands of international
students who have recently arrived in the country, needing a space to
adjust before transitioning into their new school, reports Krista
Johnson of the Louisville Courier Journal
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An estimated 1,800 students who are not native English speakers have
enrolled in Jefferson County Public Schools since August, which Johnson
notes is the highest jump the district has had in a single year. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

**P.S.** Lazaro Arvizu, known as "el general," has "dedicated his
life to promoting Danza Azteca, a spiritual Indigenous tradition from
Mexico, in Los Angeles for more than four decades." Dua
Anjum has the cool story in The Los Angeles Times
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