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THE FORUM DAILY

More Mexican migrants are flying into Canada with hopes of crossing the
northern border into the U.S., despite frigid temperatures, report Didi
Martinez and Julia Ainsley of NBC News
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From Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, crossings from Canada into the U.S. increased to
42,000, compared with 16,000 during the same period in 2021, per CBP
data. 

To date, Mexicans have made up more than 60% of all Title 42 expulsions.
"But for those who can afford the roughly $350 one-way plane ticket from
Mexico to Montreal or Toronto, their prospects of not being sent back
under Title 42 are much better," Martinez and Ainsley write. 

Some migrants who have reached New York City are traveling to Canada,
Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura reports in The New York Times
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with multimedia by José A. Alvarado Jr. At the same time, a network of
volunteers in the city is focusing on welcome. Oralis Daniela Narvarte,
a Venezuelan asylum seeker, is among the group supporting a donation
drive for migrants every Saturday, reports Anna Lucente Sterling of
Spectrum News NY1
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Separately, misinformation regarding migrant transportation motivated
hundreds to show up at the U.S.-Mexico border Wednesday night hoping to
be bused to Canada, Shelby Kapp of KTMS
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reports. A few days ago, Laura Benshoff of NPR
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explained how the politics around migrant transport have evolved. 

Welcome to Friday'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]>.  

AFTER TITLE 42 - President Biden denied that his administration is
planning massive deportations of non-Mexicans migrants after Title 42
ends, reports Jordan Fabian of Bloomberg
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In an interview with Telemundo
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on Thursday, Biden said he is focusing on policies and more resources at
the border. "I'm making sure that we ask the Congress to provide us
more security at the border. Number one," Biden said. "More agents.
Number two. Number three, more sophisticated machinery." 

ASYLUM CHANGES? - The Biden administration is preparing a bill that
would change the asylum system to speed up the resolution of claims in
large-scale processing centers at the U.S.-Mexico border, reports Ted
Hesson of the Reuters
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The bill could consider different asylum processes based on nationality.
 

**RESCUES UP LAST YEAR** - U.S. Customs and Border Protection
statistics released this week
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show a significant increase in border rescues in fiscal year 2022,
particularly in the Del Rio Sector of South Texas, reports Rick Jervis
of USA TODAY
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"Sure, you'll see the rescues increase, but it's because of our
polices," said Vicki Gaubeca of Human Rights Watch. "We're not
preventing this from happening with better policies." 

'THIS IS LIFE OR DEATH' - About 76,000 Afghan evacuees remain in
limbo in the U.S. with Congress not having acted on the bipartisan
Afghan Adjustment Act, report Devin Dwyer and Sarah Herndon of ABC News
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"This is life or death for anybody involved," said U.S. Navy pilot and
Afghan war vet Jack McCain. "To do nothing is to give people not just
uncertainty but the worry that they are going to get deported."  

Meanwhile, locally: 

* In Bloomington, Indiana, resettlement agency also is pushing for
legislation. (Bente Bouthier, Indiana Public Media)
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* Not far away in Franklin, Indiana, Najia Sherzad Hoshmand is a leader
and a connector among resettled Afghans and with the wider community.
(Ryan Trares, Daily Journal
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* Afghan brothers Mushtaq and Ali Shokori and their cousin Mukhtar
Hashimi are helping the Alameda International High School wrestling team
push for a Colorado state championship. (Jamie Leary, CBS News Colorado
<[link removed]>) 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan 

P.S. Known as the Queen of Salsa, "Cuban icon Celia Cruz is the first
Afro-Latina to be selected to appear on the U.S. quarter," reports
Rebecca Gelpi-Ufret of ABC News
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