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THE FORUM DAILY

A coalition of employers, students and community leaders is pushing back
on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R) proposal to repeal in-state tuition
for Dreamers, report Carmen Sesin and Suzanne Gamboa of NBC News
<[link removed]>.  

"If you put roadblocks at a time when there is great need in fields like
engineering, doctors, nursing, it's an ill-advised and ill-conceived
idea," said Eduardo Padrón, former president of Miami Dade College, in
a news conference Thursday.  

Florida is one of 23 states plus Washington, D.C., that currently allow
high school students without permanent legal status to have access to
in-state tuition if they meet certain requirements. The law was signed
in 2014 by then-Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican who is now in the U.S.
Senate - who, as we noted last week, said he'd sign it again
<[link removed]>. 

Latino evangelicals also are pushing back on DeSantis' proposals,
Alejandra Molina reports in Religion News Service
<[link removed]>.
"Under these proposals, some pastors fear they can get arrested simply
for serving immigrant communities," she writes. "Allowing politics to
interfere in the decision-making of congregations [would be a] betrayal
of the gospel," said Carlos Carbajal, pastor of an immigrant evangelical
congregation in Miami. 

Meanwhile, in Texas, a newly proposed bill
<[link removed]>
supported by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) would block undocumented children from
attending public school unless the federal government pays, per
Josephine Lee of the Texas Observer
<[link removed]>. 

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]>. 

**SMUGGLING SCHEME?** - The Department of Homeland Security is
collaborating with the Justice Department to determine "whether a human
smuggling scheme brought migrant children to work in multiple
slaughterhouses for multiple companies across multiple states," report
Julia Ainsley and Laura Strickler of NBC News
<[link removed]>.
In The xxxxxx
<[link removed]>, our
senior fellow Linda Chavez writes a powerful piece on why resources for
migrant children and their sponsors, as well as accountability in
government and among employers, are crucial.  

**SERVE AND PROTECT** - Two dozen bipartisan lawmakers in Wisconsin
are pushing legislation
<[link removed]> to allow
police and sheriff's departments to hire Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) recipients, reports Rich Kremer of Wisconsin Public
Radio
<[link removed]>. 
Related: A new Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force blog post
<[link removed]> looks at other states' efforts
to allow noncitizen permanent residents to serve as departments face
labor shortages. 

**OVER 2 MILLION** - Federal immigration judges are completing asylum
cases faster than before, but backlogs continue to mount, reports Alicia
A. Caldwell of The Wall Street Journal
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Pending cases now top 2 million, per government data compiled by
Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. 

**HUMANITARIAN PAROLE LIMITS** - President Biden's immigration
policies are temporarily allowing hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians,
Afghans, Venezuelans and others to stay in the U.S. via humanitarian
parole, reports Stef W. Kight of Axios
<[link removed]>.
But deadlines are approaching for many, leaving them uncertain of their
future. (Paging Congress ...)  

Meanwhile, recent stories of local welcome have Georgia on our minds: 

* Click through and scroll down to read about nonprofit New American
Pathways <[link removed]>' welcome of resettled
Afghans, including helping "about 95% of refugees and parolees from the
country achieve self-sufficiency." (Aaleah McConnell, Georgia Recorder
<[link removed]>)  

* Muzhda Oriakhil was pregnant when she arrived from Afghanistan. Now
she's a community engagement manager and Afghan community liaison for
the Clarkston, Georgia, nonprofit Embrace Refugee Birth
<[link removed]>, "building relationships with
Afghan women and connecting them to the resources and education they
need to have safe, healthy pregnancies." (Ashley Edwards Walker,
(Atlanta Magazine
<[link removed]>) 

Thanks for reading, 

Dan

 

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