REFUGEE resettlementREFUGEE resettlement servicesLAND settlementCORPORATE cultureGOVERNMENT programsSOCIAL workersBUREAUCRACYThe migration literature contends that, unlike other immigrants, refugees resettled in the US benefit from a federal program of integration. These claims do not consider the barriers that ...
Nearly 200,000 Afghans have been resettled in the US on SIVs or as refugees since the chaotic 2021 US withdrawal. In a separate executive order that he signed hours after his inauguration on Monday, Trump suspended all US refugee resettlement programs. That order resulted in hundreds of Afghan...
refugee resettlement work that is now in peril Associated PressMay 16, 2025 In Virginia, a Military Stronghold Becomes a Haven for Afghan Refugees The Trump administration’s suspension of the federal refugee program has upended the lives of many Afghans who worked with the United States during ...
UNHCR : The U.N. refugee agency, which got over 40% of its nearly $5 billion budget last year from the United States, told The Associated Press on Wednesday the pause in U.S. funding allocations have affected operations and its “first cost saving effor...
They include cuts to vaccine, education and resettlement programs, domestic violence shelters, anti-human-trafficking initiatives, safe houses for dissidents, and help for displaced people. “This fund we only use for vulnerable people and those who are really in need.” ...
Catholic bishops sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its abrupt halt to funding of refugee resettlement, calling the action unlawful and harmful to newly arrived refugees and to the nation’s largest private resettlement program.
In the past years, refugee resettlement in the U.S. was severely scaled back due to Trump-era restrictions and the coronavirus pandemic, which temporarily suspended admissions. In addition to gutting the U.S. refugee program, which has enjoyed bipartisan support for decades, the Trump administrati...
Resettlement agencies receive federal funding from the State Department. Those funds are authorized and appropriated by Congress for the purpose of aiding refugee arrivals. The State Department notified partners that all work under those awards must end, according to the memo obtained by CNN. ...
refugee programs last month. “A UNHCR-issued non-return advisory has been in place since 2021, calling for a suspension of forced returns of Afghan nationals from any country regardless of their status,” the joint UNHCR-IOM statement said. RELATED COVERAGE Pakistan wants to de...
Roshangar had his interview last August and was set to finish the final part of the process — a medical exam — this month when Trump announced he was halting all refugee resettlement. One of the Americans he worked with, Lt. Col. Steve Loertscher, referred him to ...