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THE FORUM DAILY

The Biden administration's forthcoming rule
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severely limits access to asylum for migrants trying to reach the U.S.,
unless they travel through a third country, apply, and are denied before
reaching our border. Bishop Mark J. Seitz of the Diocese of El Paso in
Texas, also a Forum board member, analyzes this new policy for America
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from a perspective of justice and human dignity.  

"[The] Government must regulate the border and guarantee the rights of
asylum seekers and all vulnerable migrants. Policies that fail to secure
protections for the vulnerable are morally deficient. Death simply
cannot be an acceptable part of the overhead costs of our immigration
policies," Seitz writes. 

"The new policy will increase burdens on neighboring countries, like
Mexico, that are already wrestling with displacement due to violence and
instability."  

Our policy expert Arturo Castellanos-Canales just published a paper
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that details the challenges that migrants may face if attempting to seek
asylum in Mexico, due to a massive asylum backlog, limited offices and
capacity, and the country's economic and demographic circumstances. 

Welcome to Wednesday's edition of The Forum Daily. I'm Clara
Villatoro, the Forum's strategic communications manager, and the great
Forum Daily team also includes Dynahlee Padilla-Vasquez 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]>. 

**HEALTHIER DIALOGUE** - There are different ways to measure the
health of our immigration system beyond border apprehension levels,
writes Dara Lind, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council,
in an op-ed for The New York Times
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"A system that cared about maximizing orderly asylum claims would focus
on scaling up the capacity at ports of entry to conduct orderly asylum
interviews ... A system that cared primarily about processing people
quickly and safely would invest in facilities to house them that
weren't effectively jails," she writes. Related: Read our policy paper
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building a healthier border dialogue. 

**APP CONCERNS** - A group of 35 House Democrats sent a letter
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday to "take
immediate steps to resolve the serious equity and accessibility issues
migrants are facing" of the CBP One app, per Suzanne Monyak of Roll Call
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**STATE BILLS** - In the first committee hearing today, Republican
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' House and Senate bills do not include the
repeal of a 2014 state law permitting in-state tuition fee waivers for
undocumented immigrant students, per Mitch Perry of the Florida Phoenix
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Over in New Mexico, legislators rejected a proposal Tuesday to prohibit
state and local government agencies from contracting with ICE to detain
immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S., per Morgan Lee of the Associated
Press
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**A NEW FOCUS** - The number of undocumented immigrants who were
convicted of a crime and deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) has dropped significantly during the Biden administration, per
Adam Shaw of Fox News
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An ICE explanatory note said the agency is taking actions "to reduce
factors that detract from removal performance." These actions include
increasing levels of cooperation from foreign countries and the
frequency of transport for detainees where possible.  

Thanks for reading, 

Clara  

**P.S.** Meet 63-year-old Jin Woo Nam, who will be at sea from Marina
del Rey to Honolulu to Incheon, "retracing in reverse the journey of the
first Korean immigrants 120 years ago." Jeong Park of the Los Angeles
Times <[link removed]> has the story.  

 

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