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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]
November 15, 2019 at 3:47 PM

Noorani's Notes: DHS Accountability

  A recent Wharton School of Business study found that the data does not support the argument that more restrictive immigration laws benefit U.S. workers. In 2004, the number of available H-1B immigrant visas was greatly reduced, and researchers found that “th…
  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]
November 14, 2019 at 3:26 PM

Noorani's Notes: "Bologna sandwiches"

  With the Trump administration planning to increase the U.S. citizenship application fee to a staggering $1,170, citizenship applicants are facing a 61% hike in costs, Christopher Ingraham reports for The Washington Post. “In real terms, the proposed changes…
  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]
November 13, 2019 at 4:01 PM

Noorani's Notes: Wall Webcam

  The Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in the case that will decide whether the Trump administration can end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program shielding 700,000 Dreamers from deportation. Adam Liptak of The New York Times br…
  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]
November 12, 2019 at 3:32 PM

Noorani's Notes: SCOTUS with the Mostus

  There is an immigration crisis in the U.S. and Europe. But the problem is not too many immigrants — it’s too few, argues Charles Kenny in Foreign Affairs. “The next several decades will see populations in Europe and North America age and shrink as people ha…
  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]
November 11, 2019 at 3:26 PM

Noorani's Notes: Forgotten Filipino Veterans

  As the Supreme Court begins hearing oral arguments this week regarding the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Jonathan Blitzer at The New Yorker examines the policy’s legal vulnerabilities and th…
  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]
November 11, 2019 at 3:26 PM

Noorani's Notes: Forgotten Filipino Veterans

  As the Supreme Court begins hearing oral arguments this week regarding the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Jonathan Blitzer at The New Yorker examines the policy’s legal vulnerabilities and th…
  Christian Penichet-Paul · [email protected]
November 8, 2019 at 10:07 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Friday, November 8, 2019

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Friday, November 8, 2019 is now posted.  You can find the online version of the bulletin here:https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-november-8-2019/ All the best, Christian  LEGISLATIVE BULL…
  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]
November 8, 2019 at 3:09 PM

Noorani's Notes: Remain Remains Problematic

  Thanks to all those faith, law enforcement, and business leaders from around the country – and Senators Durbin and Gardner – who joined us yesterday in D.C. for Leading the Way: An American Approach to Immigration. It was a robust, meaningful dialogue focuse…
  Magen Wetmore, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]
November 7, 2019 at 10:18 PM

TODAY: Law Enforcement, Community Leaders to be Honored for Valuing Immigrants

National Immigration Forum For Immediate Release           Contact: Charlie DiPasquale, 240-481-6632 Nov. 7, 2019                                               Magen Wetmore, 202-383-5983 TODAY: Law Enforcement, Community Leaders to be Honored for Va…
  Magen Wetmore, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]
November 7, 2019 at 6:14 PM

Convening Paints Constructive Vision for American Immigration

National Immigration Forum For Immediate Release           Contact: Charlie DiPasquale, 240-481-6632 Nov. 7, 2019                                               Magen Wetmore, 202-383-5983 Convening Paints Constructive Vision for American Immigration …
  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]
November 7, 2019 at 1:53 PM

Noorani's Notes: #LeadingTheWay19

  Welcome to Thursday’s edition of Noorani’s Notes. Instead of bringing you the latest in immigration news today, we’re making it. Our annual event, Leading the Way: An American Approach to Immigration’s general session kicks off around 8:50 this morning wit…
  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]
November 6, 2019 at 3:53 PM

Noorani's Notes: Pop Quiz

  The White House has said that Chad Wolf, a longtime Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official, will assume the agency’s top post, Nick Miroff reports for The Washington Post. But his Senate confirmation could be stalled thanks to a complex succession pl…
  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]
November 5, 2019 at 3:39 PM

Noorani's Notes: "It absolutely makes sense."

  This week the Trump administration is busy drafting new restrictions to prevent asylum seekers from applying for work permits until they have been in the country for at least a year, Julia Ainsley reports for NBC News. “Under previous guidelines, asylum-see…
  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]
November 4, 2019 at 3:43 PM

Noorani's Notes: Minnesota Morning Read

  President Trump on Saturday approved a plan to lower the number of refugees that the U.S. will accept in fiscal year 2020 to just 18,000 — the lowest in thirty years, reports Kenneth Garger at the New York Post. Lara Jakes at The New York Times reports that …
  Christian Penichet-Paul · [email protected]
November 1, 2019 at 7:28 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Friday, November 1, 2019

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Friday, November 1, 2019 is now posted.  You can find the online version of the bulletin here: https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-november-1-2019/ All the best, Christian  LEGISLATIVE BUL…
  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]
November 1, 2019 at 2:25 PM

Noorani's Notes: "We're Not Well."

  Tania Romero, a Honduran mother of four, faces deportation –­ and stage 4 oral cancer. Her son, Christian, is a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient and doctoral student at Yale who grew up in the U.S. Christian is campaigning for immigra…
  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]
October 31, 2019 at 2:43 PM

Noorani's Notes: Repercussions

  As families and insurers scramble to decipher the Trump administration’s proclamation “requiring all prospective immigrants to prove they will have U.S. health insurance within 30 days of their arrival or enough money to pay for ‘reasonably foreseeable medic…
  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…
  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…
  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, …
  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…
  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…
  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…
  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…
  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…
  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…
  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 …
  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…
  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…
  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. …
  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…
  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…
  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…
  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 …
  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 …
  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…
  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…
  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…
  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…
  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 …
  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…
  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…
  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…
  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…
  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…
  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…
  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…
  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…
  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,…
  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…