Peace talks aimed at ending Syria’s civil war—and the migration crisis it has helped to fuel—are scheduled to resume this week. But the path forward appears as daunting as ever, especially since not all players are at the table.

The EU on Tuesday revisits a dispute, dating back nearly 10 years, over disparities in the way the US and Europe treat travelers’ visa requirements. The US has long placed higher restrictions on visitors from some European countries, while enjoying visa-free travel privileges.  The EU takes up a demand that all its member states have access to the visa waiver program. The conversation comes at a time when some European leaders have criticized new US restrictions on travelers who have been to Iran, Iraq, Syria or Sudan.

A Washington Post investigation showed how one Muslim woman helped European authorities track Abdelhamid Abaaoud, planner of the Paris attacks, providing information that may well have helped prevent a second wave of terrorism in the city. The investigation showed another woman, Abaaoud’s cousin, helped protect Abaaoud from capture, and was with him when he died in a suicide bomb blast set off by a fellow plotter.  Meanwhile, Iraqi forces helped drive ISIS from a key perch in Anbar province.

Advocates ramped up their efforts in advance of oral arguments on President Obama’s immigration executive actions before the Supreme Court, scheduled for next Monday. The Center for American Progress’s ThinkProgress published a lengthy piece examining the president’s legal authority to set immigration enforcement. America’s Voice was set to appear at a press avail, convened by the Center for Migration Studies, to discuss the argument’s legal merits.

President Obama continues to work Senate Republicans in hopes of persuading them to hold hearings on Merrick Garland, his Supreme Court nominee. He has made little headway. A group of 15 former presidents of the American Bar Association urged the Senate to act on Garland’s nomination, as activists continued to apply grass-roots pressure in states where sitting senators opposed to holding confirmation hearings face tough re-election fights. Defenders of the GOP Senate leadership’s approach fought back against the #DoYourJob campaign promoted by MoveOn.org among many other grantees, arguing that “nothing in the Constitution requires the Senate to act on nominations in any way.”

Hillary Clinton released a new ad criticizing GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump for anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim stances.

Among other grantee activities:

--America’s Voice hosted another “DAPA dinner,” this one for Florida state Sen. Darrin Soto, who discussed how the implementation of DAPA and DACA would affect the lives of the five immigrant families joining him for supper.

--Eliana Fernandez, a member of Make the Road Action, wrote an op-ed on Fox Latino, arguing that anti-immigrant rhetoric in the 2016 presidential campaign was helping to motivate voter mobilization and turnout in her community.

--Farhana Khera, executive director of Muslim Advocates, wrote an op-ed on the Huffington Post decrying efforts to religiously profile all Muslims in the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Belgium and France. “To keep our families safe from violence, Americans of all faiths must stand together and not allow ourselves to be divided as we face threats from violent extremists,” she wrote.

--Arjun Singh Sethi of the Sikh Coalition wrote a piece for Politico denouncing an FBI program aimed at helping educators, students and others spot extremists who have been radicalized, pointing out that the warning signs suggested by the program would seem to indict whole cultures and faiths. 

--Linda Sarsour is featured in a video on YouTube encouraging Muslims to embrace their faith and “start acting like we belong” in America.

--Human Rights First published a post urging the Obama Justice Department to release legal memos laying out the basis for its counterterrorist efforts against the Islamic State, and calling on the administration to codify its views on “the key legal and policy boundaries” before the president leaves office next January.

--Steven Aftergood of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists is quoted in a NYT piece on how Obama’s recent remarks about classified information don’t necessarily jibe with his administration’s track record of prosecuting leakers.