They’d fled their devastated homeland and been granted protected status that allowed them to live and work in the U.S.. Now ...
Advocates worry about the future of a decades-old program that has served as a lifeline for refugees displaced by war and ...
“President Trump has said he will defend persecuted Christians,” said Soerens of World Relief. “And the U.S. refugee ...
Resettlement agencies have raced to welcome refugees before President-elect Donald ...
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to suspend the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program, citing ...
The New York Times reports Department of Homeland Security officials have halted a range of programs that allowed immigrants ...
Ken Primus, director of World Relief Tri-Cities, stands in the organization’s Richland offices. It’s Southeast Washington’s ...
including crisis-stricken Haiti and Venezuela. Refugee admissions suspended Hours after taking office, Mr. Trump indefinitely paused the U.S. refugee admissions program, instructing officials to ban ...
Syria and Venezuela. Trump’s executive order states that the United States “lacks the ability to absorb large numbers of migrants, and in particular, refugees.” The order mentions the ...
In mid-2023, Biden faced a two-pronged Venezuela conundrum. The first was the surging numbers of Venezuelan refugees entering the U.S. The second was the sham election that just took place ...
Lopez, his wife Karina Cañizarez and their 5-year-old son Jesus are refugees from Venezuela and Colombia who were embraced by a team of supportive volunteers when they arrived in December.