Advocates in Florida are speaking up as well, report Syra Ortiz Blanes and Sonia Osorio of the Miami Herald. 

"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, 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 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]. 

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. 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. (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. 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. [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. "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 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. Without agricultural reforms, notes First-Arai, climate change will continue to severely impact the state’s 500,000 to 800,000 farmworkers, an estimated half of whom are undocumented and therefore currently excluded from qualifying for unemployment or any other benefits. 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan