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THE FORUM DAILY

In Florida yesterday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
talked about the Biden administration's expansion of humanitarian
parole
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per Rebecca Falconer of Axios
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GOP-led states have filed a lawsuit challenging the expansion. 

Advocates in Florida are speaking up as well, report Syra Ortiz Blanes
and Sonia Osorio of the Miami Herald
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"I have seen firsthand how this program has brought families together
and provided opportunities for a better life for our people," said Maria
Antonieta Díaz, president of the Venezuelan American Alliance, in a
virtual press conference on Tuesday.  

For Foreign Policy
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experts Alex Nowrasteh, Stan Veuger and Tara Watson argue that by
extending humanitarian parole, the U.S. can encourage legal migration,
initiate robust conversations about broader immigration reforms, and
more. 

And The Washington Post
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editorial board addresses some of the concerns about Biden's
initiatives. Their bottom line(s): Unlike Trump's policies, Biden's
"are not the product of hostility to immigrants and immigration, but of
a welcoming attitude tempered by recent experience and realism. Congress
should legislate in the same spirit."  

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]>. 

**WHAT WE'RE WATCHING** - The Biden administration plans to end
national emergencies related to COVID-19 in May - including Title 42,
per Tyler Pager and Lena H. Sun of The Washington Post
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Separate but also related to the border: Today Republican lawmakers are
holding their first hearing of this Congress on the president's border
policies, reports Priscilla Alvarez of CNN
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(I'm not putting money on hearing solutions-focused proposals.) 

**DACA CHALLENGES** - On Tuesday, a coalition of nine
Republican-controlled states asked a federal judge in Texas to end DACA
in its entirety over two years, reports Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS
News
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U.S. District Court Andrew Hanen's ruling is slated to be issued after
the April 6 deadline for involved parties to submit filings.  

**'LOOMING UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS'** - Some 76,000 Afghan evacuees,
including about 800 who resettled in the Philadelphia area, face "a
looming unemployment crisis" with their temporary status set to expire
this summer, reports Jeff Gammage of The Philadelphia Inquirer
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[It would be a crisis for their employers too, we might add.] "We are so
concerned that if their status expires, they'll lose their jobs," said
Mustafa Babak, executive director of the nonprofit Afghan American
Foundation <[link removed]>. "It will undo so much
work by the American people and the private sector in the past year and
a half." Needed: The Afghan Adjustment Act
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from Congress.

**CALIFORNIA'S CROPS** - Following record rainfall and catastrophic
flooding in California, many immigrant farmworkers share their struggles
to return to work and afford food, reports Leanna First-Arai for
Truthout
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Without agricultural reforms, notes First-Arai, climate change will
continue to severely impact the state's 500,000 to 800,000
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half
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of whom are undocumented and therefore currently excluded from
qualifying for unemployment or any other benefits. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan

 

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