Dan Gordon, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

January 10, 2020 at 10:49 PM

‘A Big Mistake’: Texas Governor Declines to Resettle Refugees

National Immigration Forum For Immediate Release        Contact: Dan Gordon, 617-651-0841 Jan. 10, 2020 ‘A Big Mistake’: Texas Governor Declines to Resettle Refugees WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gov. Greg Abbott today became the first governor to refuse refug…

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  Danilo Zak · [email protected]

January 10, 2020 at 10:42 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Friday, January 10, 2020

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Friday, January 10, 2020 is now posted.  You can find the online version of the bulletin here:https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-january-10-2020/ All the best,  Danilo  LEGISLATIVE BULLET…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

January 10, 2020 at 3:49 PM

Noorani's Notes: Hockey Night in Canada

  Rumors have it that today the Trump administration will celebrate completion of its 100th mile of border wall in Yuma, Arizona. Some questions we have for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) leadership: What is old and refurbished, versus new constructio…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

January 9, 2020 at 3:35 PM

Noorani's Notes: The 41 States of America

  With less than two weeks before the deadline, 41 states and 86 local governments have filed letters with the federal government permitting refugee resettlement in accordance with President Trump’s executive order, reports Bekah McNeel in Christianity Today. …

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

January 8, 2020 at 3:30 PM

Noorani's Notes: "Not Turning My Back"

  As we highlighted in the Notes yesterday, immigration officials are beginning to deport Mexican nationals seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border to Guatemala, expanding a practice that previously sent refugees to Honduras and El Salvador. Now, Mexico is sp…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

January 7, 2020 at 3:41 PM

Noorani's Notes: "You Have to Help Others"

  New documents obtained by BuzzFeed News show that federal immigration officials are beginning to deport Mexican nationals seeking asylum at the southern border to Guatemala, expanding the practice that has turned away many refugees from Honduras and El Salva…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

January 6, 2020 at 3:48 PM

Noorani's Notes: No Goodbye

  Hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable holiday season and New Year’s. I spent a week driving the Pacific Coast Highway — not terrible. Let’s start the decade with the data: The Census Bureau reports that the U.S. population slowed this past decade, from…

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  Ali Noorani · [email protected]

December 31, 2019 at 5:20 PM

There's Still Time!

National Immigration Forum Dear John, As we’ve reached the end of this giving season, we hope you’ll consider contributing to the National Immigration Forum. When you give to our work, you’re impacting the immigration conversation in a meaningful and l…

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  National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 27, 2019 at 7:13 PM

We Need Your Help

National Immigration Forum Dear John, Please consider donating to the National Immigration Forum.  By contributing to our work, you’re participating in policy research, in educational outreach, and a more constructive narrative supporting immigrant co…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 23, 2019 at 3:30 PM

Noorani's Notes: Stocking Stuffer

  Asylum seekers forced to wait in Mexican towns along the border are facing new dangers, including criminal cartels who seek to kidnap them and extort ransoms from their relatives, reports Miriam Jordan for The New York Times. One Honduran father was tortured…

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  Danilo Zak · [email protected]

December 20, 2019 at 9:35 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Friday, December 20, 2019

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Friday, December 20, 2019 is now posted. You can find the online version of the bulletin here: https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-december-20-2019/ The next bulletin will be posted on Friday…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 20, 2019 at 3:15 PM

Noorani's Notes: Resettlement in the South

  Your pre-holiday must-read: USA Today’s two-part investigative deep dive (part one and part two) uncovering reports of sexual assaults, poor medical care and dozens of deaths at facilities overseen by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). From data…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 19, 2019 at 3:37 PM

Noorani's Notes: What Line?

  Far away from D.C. and all that went down yesterday, Gov. Bill Lee (R) announced that Tennessee will continue accepting refugees, joining only a handful of Republican-led states to do so as a new Trump administration deadline looms, Natalie Allison and Joel …

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  Ali Noorani · [email protected]

December 18, 2019 at 7:47 PM

This Giving Season

National Immigration Forum Dear John, The holidays are in full swing, and giving is the most impactful way to celebrate.  This season, we’re hoping you’ll choose to partner with us in creating a shared vision for immigration in America. Please donate t…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 18, 2019 at 3:21 PM

Noorani's Notes: First Responders

  There are now an unprecedented 800,000 immigrants working legally in the U.S. who are waiting for green cards, reports Abigail Hauslohner at The Washington Post. Most of those waiting for employment-based green cards are Indian, and “the backlog among this g…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 17, 2019 at 3:34 PM

Noorani's Notes: Corporate Pledge

  As DMV offices across New York State saw long lines on Monday to issue drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants for the first time, New Jersey's state legislature successfully passed similar legislation. Per Tracey Tully and Michael Gold in The New York …

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 16, 2019 at 3:30 PM

Noorani's Notes: America in 2020

  California is to set to spend $187 million to maximize census participation next year — while in Texas, the state legislature has declined to spend a single dollar on the effort, Michael Wines and Jose A. Del Real report in The New York Times. Partisan polit…

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  Danilo Zak · [email protected]

December 13, 2019 at 10:53 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Friday, December 13, 2019

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Friday, December 13, 2019 is now posted.  You can find the online version of the bulletin here: https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-december-13-2019/ All the best,  Danilo LEGISLATIVE BULL…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 13, 2019 at 3:23 PM

Noorani's Notes: A Peaceful Environment

  The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General is investigating a recent $400 million federal contract with Fisher Sand & Gravel for construction of the border wall, which raised suspicions in the House Homeland Security committee, reports Zolan Kanno-Youngs…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 12, 2019 at 3:40 PM

Noorani's Notes: "What You Need to be Warm"

  Faith leaders across the country are taking action ahead of a Christmas deadline for state and local jurisdictions to provide written consent to the resettlement of refugees, Heather Sells reports for CBN News. “This week, faith leaders connected with the Ev…

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  Dan Gordon, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 11, 2019 at 11:47 PM

Bipartisan Immigration Bill Passes the House

National Immigration Forum For Immediate Release          Contact: Dan Gordon, 617-651-0841 Dec. 11, 2019       Bipartisan Immigration Bill Passes the House WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bipartisan bill offering much-needed immigration and agriculture workfo…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 11, 2019 at 3:28 PM

Noorani's Notes: Inspiring Immigration Stories of 2019

  The U.S. House of Representatives will vote today on the Farm Workforce Modernization Act — bipartisan legislation that would grant legal status to undocumented farmworkers, modernize the agricultural worker visa program and mandate E-Verify for the sector. …

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 10, 2019 at 3:24 PM

Noorani's Notes: Vaccines

  The Burleigh County Commission in North Dakota voted 3-2 Monday night to continue accepting refugees, Mitch Smith and Miriam Jordan report in The New York Times. The commission capped refugee admissions at 25, about the same number as last year. Brian Bitner…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 9, 2019 at 3:26 PM

Noorani's Notes: Meanwhile in Arizona

  North Dakota’s Burleigh County is set to vote today on whether the county will be the first in the nation to ban further resettlement of refugees, reports James MacPherson at the Associated Press. “Monday night’s meeting will be held in a middle school cafet…

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  Christian Penichet-Paul · [email protected]

December 6, 2019 at 11:03 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Friday, December 6, 2019

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Friday, December 6, 2019 is now posted. You can find the online version of the bulletin here: https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-december-6-2019/ Best, Christian  LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN - Fr…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 6, 2019 at 3:38 PM

Noorani's Notes: "Because I believe in God"

  This morning I have an op-ed in the Boston Globe: “In recent months — as the country has been transfixed on the high-stakes drama of the impeachment inquiry — the very fabric of our nation has become altered. Not because of new witness testimony or details p…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 5, 2019 at 3:45 PM

Noorani's Notes: "A Defensive Crouch"

  Texas District Court Judge Keno Vasquez has temporarily blocked the crowdfunded “We Build the Wall” effort to build a portion of the border wall along the Rio Grande,  reports Neil Vigdor at The New York Times. The temporary restraining order follows a lawsu…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 4, 2019 at 3:31 PM

Noorani's Notes: Refugee Admissions

  This fall, President Trump signed an executive order that allows states and cities to veto refugee resettlement — and slashed the annual refugee ceiling to a record low of 18,000 for next year. However, Griff Witte at The Washington Post writes that in “dee…

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  Ali Noorani · [email protected]

December 3, 2019 at 4:30 PM

Help Us Reshape Our Nation's Immigration Story

National Immigration Forum Dear John, As you are inundated with requests this Giving Tuesday, I hope you will put ours at the top of your pile. We greatly value your support! The decisions that drove our earliest ancestors to America are the same that…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 3, 2019 at 3:31 PM

Noorani's Notes: Left Behind

  Welcome to the #GivingTuesday edition of Noorani’s Notes. If you find these Notes useful, please consider supporting our work at the National Immigration Forum. We are tremendously grateful. Now, to the news… The Department of Homeland Security’s inadequat…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

December 2, 2019 at 3:36 PM

Noorani's Notes: Ballroom Dance Lessons

  Nearly half of undocumented immigrants currently living in the U.S. arrived here legally and stayed past their visas’ expiration dates, reports Miriam Jordan for The New York Times. “Of the roughly 3.5 million undocumented immigrants who entered the country …

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

November 26, 2019 at 3:57 PM

Noorani's Notes: Alabama International

  There are 3,650,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey alone – 44% of whom are children, Omer Karasapan writes for the Brookings Institute. And Turkish public opinion, which started off supportive of welcoming refugees, has changed: “A poll in 2016 showed 72 percent …

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

November 25, 2019 at 3:29 PM

Noorani's Notes: "Proud American"

  After U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a report on arrests of people who requested Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Alex Nowrasteh, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, penned an opinion piece in The …

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  Christian Penichet-Paul · [email protected]

November 22, 2019 at 10:29 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Friday, November 22, 2019

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Friday, November 22, 2019 is now posted. You can find the online version of the bulletin here:https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-november-22-2019/ The next bulletin will be posted on Friday,…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

November 22, 2019 at 3:19 PM

Noorani's Notes: Journalist Database

  Sol Trujillo, the chairman of Trujillo Group Investments and the first native-born Hispanic chairman and CEO of a Fortune 150 company, says he believes that America is straying from the ideals written in the Declaration of Independence. In an op-ed for Mark…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

November 21, 2019 at 3:22 PM

Noorani's Notes: Restrictive

  The Trump administration has officially begun an effort to send some asylum seekers at the border to Guatemala, report Ted Hesson, Mica Rosenberg, and Kristina Cooke for Reuters. A pilot of the new program, which began this week, aims to process 10 to 15 mig…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

November 20, 2019 at 3:33 PM

Noorani's Notes: Bad for Business

  At the state and local level, businesses and elected officials continue to say they need more immigrants and refugees in order to grow their workforces and economies. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) embraced a Trump executive order giving cities and state…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

November 19, 2019 at 3:23 PM

Noorani's Notes: AI Security

  Today the Trump administration will amend the rule permitting asylum seekers to be sent to other countries that have negotiated agreements with the U.S. to accept them, Ted Hesson reports in Reuters. This regulation “states that asylum seekers may be sent to…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

November 18, 2019 at 3:40 PM

Noorani's Notes: Sesame Street

  During the past year, there have been approximately 50,000 people jailed, on any given day, under the purview of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — and the majority of those in custody have no prior criminal records, reports Abigail Hauslohner …

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  Christian Penichet-Paul · [email protected]

November 15, 2019 at 9:48 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Friday, November 15, 2019

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Friday, November 15, 2019 is now posted.  You can find the online version of the bulletin here: https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-friday-november-15-2019/ All the best, Christian  LEGISLATIVE B…

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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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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 …

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