Magen Wetmore, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 30, 2019 at 9:00 PM

Bipartisan Bill Offers Immigration, Labor Solutions

National Immigration Forum For Immediate Release        Contact: Magen Wetmore, 202-383-5983 Oct. 30, 2019       Bipartisan Bill Offers Immigration, Labor Solutions WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bipartisan bill introduced today presents Congress with a new o…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 30, 2019 at 2:21 PM

Noorani's Notes: Expediting Deportations

  Border Patrol agents arrested more than 851,000 people crossing the southwest border over the fiscal year ending in September — a 12-year high and more than double the number arrested last year, report Michelle Hackman and Alicia Caldwell for The Wall Street…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 29, 2019 at 2:37 PM

Noorani's Notes: Gone Fishing

  After spending much of the last year targeting foreign aid to Central America, two weeks ago President Trump announced that he would restore some assistance to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador as the countries agreed to accept U.S. asylum seekers. Now, …

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 28, 2019 at 2:53 PM

Noorani's Notes: Changing the Future

  New research from a team of economic historians at Princeton, Stanford and the University of California, Davis, shows that since the 1880s, “Children of poor immigrants in America have had greater success climbing the economic ladder than children of similar…

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  Christian Penichet-Paul · [email protected]

October 25, 2019 at 8:50 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Friday, October 25, 2019

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Friday, October 25, 2019 is now posted.  You can find the online version of the bulletin here:https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-october-25-2019/ All the best, Christian  LEGISLATIVE BULL…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 25, 2019 at 2:54 PM

Noorani's Notes: "Hitting the Gas"

  The Trump administration is testing a new program which would expedite migrant deportations, Robert Moore reports in The Washington Post. The “secretive” pilot program, Prompt Asylum Claim Review, would give migrants a decision on their asylum application in…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 24, 2019 at 2:24 PM

Noorani's Notes: "The Sunless World"

  The bipartisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released an extensive 200-page report this morning examining how the Trump administration’s asylum, detention and family separation policies are violating basic constitutional and civil rights, Claire Hansen wri…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 23, 2019 at 3:04 PM

Noorani's Notes: "Redefine the Politics"

  Migrants who agreed to wait in Mexico for their U.S. asylum hearings are now being told they may no longer be eligible for asylum at all, Dara Lind reports in ProPublica. Contradicting Trump policies have left asylum seekers and immigration officials confuse…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 22, 2019 at 2:26 PM

Noorani's Notes: Homes and Healing in Akron

  More than 90% of African migrants would again make the perilous journey to Europe despite the risks, UN News reports. Interviews with 1,970 migrants from 39 African countries living in 13 European countries led to noteworthy findings. Among them: “that getti…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 21, 2019 at 3:21 PM

Noorani's Notes: Dem Message

  “In recent weeks, thousands of Mexican adults and children have been camping out in lines at U.S. border crossings, sleeping in tents while awaiting a chance to apply for safe refuge,” The Washington Post reports. While net migration with Mexico has leveled …

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  Christian Penichet-Paul · [email protected]

October 18, 2019 at 9:54 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Friday, October 18, 2019

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Friday, October 18, 2019 is now posted.  You can find the online version of the bulletin here:https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-october-18-2019/ All the best, Christian  LEGISLATIVE BULL…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 18, 2019 at 3:07 PM

Noorani's Notes: Ethical Care

  Hazleton, Pennsylvania, used to be a mining town, but in the early 2000’s it transformed into a shipping center due to its central location near major highways. To fill these new jobs, immigrant families came searching for a middle-class life, Laura Krantz w…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 17, 2019 at 2:51 PM

Noorani's Notes: New Deals

  President Trump announced yesterday that he will restore over $140 million in foreign aid to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador after reaching new cooperation agreements to directly return Central American asylum seekers back to their countries of origin. …

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 16, 2019 at 2:17 PM

Noorani's Notes: Something Upbeat

  The president’s immigration policies are having an unusual impact: While immigration has declined dramatically nationwide, “perhaps ironically, it is Trump-voting states and metropolitan areas that have registered the largest gains in immigrants,” writes Ric…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 15, 2019 at 2:20 PM

Noorani's Notes: Losing Faith

  In an open letter to President Trump and Congress, leaders of top programs at Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, Stanford, Duke, and more say the Trump administration must “remove the limits on visas granted to individual countries, reform the H-1B visa program to i…

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  Christian Penichet-Paul · [email protected]

October 11, 2019 at 9:27 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Friday, October 11, 2019

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Friday, October 11, 2019 is now posted.  You can find the online version of the bulletin here:https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-october-11-2019/ Best, Christian  LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN - F…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 11, 2019 at 2:52 PM

Noorani's Notes: Workarounds

  The House Oversight and Reform Committee plans to subpoena U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) acting Director Ken Cuccinelli and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting Director Matthew Albence on Oct. 17 “over the temporary end …

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 10, 2019 at 2:13 PM

Noorani's Notes: New Generation

  Nineteen colleges and universities — including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, and Duke — have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court arguing in favor of protecting the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. “The filing states that DACA …

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 9, 2019 at 2:07 PM

Noorani's Notes: Just the Facts

  Nearly 1 million migrants were taken into custody along the U.S.-Mexico border during the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 — the highest volume in 12 years, reports Nick Miroff in The Washington Post. Arrests reached an all-time high back in 2000, when 1.6 millio…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 8, 2019 at 2:23 PM

Noorani's Notes: Marriage Trap

  There were nearly 40,000 arrests along the southern border this month, the lowest this fiscal year. But the number of total apprehensions — more than 850,000 — is the highest of any year since 2007. “Historically, apprehension numbers have risen in the spri…

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  Cathleen Farrell, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 7, 2019 at 6:42 PM

Law Enforcement Leaders Voice Support for DACA in Amicus Brief

National Immigration Forum For Immediate Release       Contact: Cathleen Farrell, 202-403-4190 Oct. 7, 2019 Law Enforcement Leaders Voice Support for DACA in Amicus Brief WASHINGTON, D.C. — Eighty law enforcement leaders from across the country have…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 7, 2019 at 2:43 PM

Noorani's Notes: A Texas Crisis

  In its latest move to restrict immigration, the White House issued a new proclamation on Friday that will require visa applicants to prove that they “will have health insurance within 30 days of entering the country or that they can afford to cover any medic…

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  Joanna Taylor, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 4, 2019 at 4:25 PM

Noorani's Notes: We Want to Hear From You

  Hi, My name is Joanna, and I’m part of the Noorani’s Notes team. Thank you for being a subscriber to our daily immigration digest — a lot of work goes into the Notes every morning, and we’re thrilled to have such an engaged audience. Since launching these …

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  Christian Penichet-Paul · [email protected]

October 4, 2019 at 3:08 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Friday, October 4, 2019

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Friday, October 4, 2019 is now posted.  You can find the online version of the bulletin here:https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-october-4-2019/ Best, Christian  LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN - Fri…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 4, 2019 at 2:40 PM

Noorani's Notes: For-Profit Child Detention

  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation rates continue to rise, reports Priscilla Alvarez at CNN. Between August and September of this year, more than 2,500 family members were removed from the U.S. — just shy of the 2,711 removed in all o…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 3, 2019 at 2:20 PM

Noorani's Notes: Privacy Concerns

  The Department of Homeland Security announced yesterday that it will begin collecting DNA samples from potentially hundreds of thousands of migrants in U.S. custody. “A letter in August to the White House from the Office of Special Counsel cited an official…

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  Dan Gordon, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 2, 2019 at 3:33 PM

Noorani Responds to Trump Border Statements

National Immigration Forum For Immediate Release       Contact: Dan Gordon, 202-383-5996 Oct. 2, 2019 Noorani Responds to Trump Border Statements WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following is a statement from Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Im…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 2, 2019 at 2:23 PM

Noorani's Notes: Water for a Marriage

  In an adaptation of their forthcoming book, “Border Wars: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration,” Michael D. Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis write in The New York Times that Trump “suggested that they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down.” And, in r…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

October 1, 2019 at 2:42 PM

Noorani's Notes: Mothers

  Taking a step back: “By late Friday, three different federal courts had shot down three of the president’s more draconian policies aimed at shutting off the flow of migrants into the U.S.,” writes the Los Angeles Times editorial board: Flores – U.S. Distri…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 30, 2019 at 2:40 PM

Noorani's Notes: 100 Feet from Freedom

  The Trump administration’s decision to lower the refugee ceiling has come as a painful blow to many in the evangelical community, reports Kate Shellnutt in Christianity Today. The reduction came despite staunch opposition from the United States Commission on…

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  Christian Penichet-Paul · [email protected]

September 27, 2019 at 9:22 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Friday, September 27, 2019

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Friday, September 27, 2019 is now posted.  You can find the online version of the bulletin here:https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-september-27-2019/ Best, Christian  LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 27, 2019 at 2:24 PM

Noorani's Notes: Dallas Reserve

  According to the UNHCR, there are 70.8 million forcibly displaced people in the world today. This includes 25.9 million refugees and 3.5 million asylum seekers. President Trump has decided the United States of America, the most powerful nation in the world,…

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  Cathleen Farrell, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 26, 2019 at 10:15 PM

Noorani on Reported 2020 Refugee Ceiling

National Immigration Forum For Immediate Release        Contact: Cathleen Farrell, 202-403-4190 Sept. 26, 2019 Ali Noorani on Reported 2020 Refugee Ceiling WASHINGTON, D.C. — A report this afternoon suggests that the fiscal year 2020 refugee resettl…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 26, 2019 at 2:22 PM

Noorani's Notes: The Decline, The Impact

  On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced a deal that would give the United States the ability to send asylum seekers from the border to Honduras, “a nation with one of the highest murder rates in the world,” writes Nick Miroff in The Washington Post.…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 25, 2019 at 2:04 PM

Noorani's Notes: Five Mothers

  President Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele will meet today in New York City, and efforts to curb levels of immigration from El Salvador are expected to be top of the agenda. Kirk Semple at The New York Times reports: “Mr. Bukele may use the occas…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 24, 2019 at 3:04 PM

Noorani's Notes: One Week

  According to a new study, deportations do not lower crime rates in the United States, The Marshall Project’s Anna Flagg reports. Since 2017, the Secure Communities deportation program — which began under President George W. Bush and was then expanded and lat…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 23, 2019 at 2:17 PM

Noorani's Notes: "I'm afraid..."

  In communities across the country, the immigration debate isn’t about politics and policy. It’s about culture and values. It’s also about institutions — including American corporations — stepping up and leading.  Earlier this month, “numerous companies orga…

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  Christian Penichet-Paul · [email protected]

September 20, 2019 at 9:02 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Friday, September 20, 2019

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Friday, September 20, 2019 is now posted.  You can find the online version of the bulletin here: https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-september-20-2019/ Best, Christian  LEGISLATIVE BULLETI…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 20, 2019 at 2:38 PM

Noorani's Notes: Poultry Capital of the World

  Some good news to end the week: “The Trump administration reversed itself Thursday and said it will again allow immigrants who are facing serious illnesses to remain in the U.S. to get medical care without fear of deportation,” Monique O. Madan reports in th…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 19, 2019 at 2:37 PM

Noorani’s Notes: "I Feel More Free..."

  More than one million cases are now backlogged in immigration courts across the country, according to the latest data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. Michelle Hackman in The Wall Street Journal reports that the num…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 18, 2019 at 2:28 PM

Noorani’s Notes: To Wait

  With the Trump administration’s “public charge” rule set to go into effect on October 15, health providers are preparing for a surge in uninsured immigrant patients too scared to seek government assistance. Nowhere is this concern more pronounced than in Tex…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 17, 2019 at 2:24 PM

Noorani’s Notes: Going to the Vet

  Since June, more than 12,000 asylum seekers have been returned to Juarez, Mexico, under the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) – also known as the “remain in Mexico” program – and it’s expected that 70,000 will be sent there by the end…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 16, 2019 at 2:19 PM

Noorani’s Notes: Rodeo Without Borders

  Democratic presidential candidates have criticized president Trump’s immigration policies, and offered some specific proposals. “What most of them haven’t done, however, is explain how they plan to fix an immigration system badly in need of reform,” writes B…

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  Christian Penichet-Paul · [email protected]

September 13, 2019 at 8:14 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Friday, September 13, 2019

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Friday, September 13, 2019 is now posted.  You can find the online version of the bulletin here: https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-september-13-2019/ Best, Christian  LEGISLATIVE BULLETI…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 13, 2019 at 2:45 PM

Noorani’s Notes: About Those Likes

  Refugees around the world anxiously await the announcement of the Trump administration’s annual target number of refugees, due by October 1, but Harvest Prude at WORLD Magazine reports that the number could be as low as zero. To illustrate the crisis, Prude…

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  Dan Gordon, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 12, 2019 at 3:43 PM

Courts, Not Cartels, Should Determine Asylum

National Immigration Forum For Immediate Release       Contact: Dan Gordon, 202-383-5996 Sept. 12, 2019 Courts, Not Cartels, Should Determine Asylum WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court issued an unsigned order Wednesday that allows the government t…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 12, 2019 at 2:07 PM

Noorani’s Notes: Dorian Family Separation

  Last night the Supreme Court issued an unsigned order that effectively shuts down the southern border to nearly all Central American asylum seekers, Robert Barnes reports for The Washington Post. Ian Millhiser at Vox writes that the decision “stays a lower …

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 11, 2019 at 2:20 PM

Noorani’s Notes: Golden Rule

  Last Friday, news broke that the administration was considering drastic cuts to refugee admissions numbers. A meeting was to have taken place yesterday, with the president to make a decision. In response, Leith Anderson, president of the National Associatio…

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  Dan Gordon, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 10, 2019 at 8:44 PM

Former Ambassador, Other Leaders Voice Support for Refugees

National Immigration Forum For Immediate Release        Contact: Dan Gordon, 202-383-5996 Sept. 10, 2019 Former Ambassador, Other Leaders Voice Support for Refugees A recording of today’s call is available here. WASHINGTON, D.C. — A former ambassado…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

September 10, 2019 at 2:12 PM

Noorani’s Notes: Trump's Metric

  Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Noorani’s Notes. Questions abound as tent courthouses for migrants are set to open along the Texas border in Brownsville and Laredo, reports Molly Hennessy-Fiske at the Los Angeles Times. The tent courts – which were built at…

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