The UNHCR's official resettlement handbook says resettlement is "particularly vulnerable" to fraud.
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It also temporarily suspends refugee resettlement and indefinitely suspends Syrian refugee resettlement.
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But the resettlement agencies say there is still an urgent need for the resettlement approvals.
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Resettlement to Australia The spotlight is now on those countries that might assist in her resettlement.
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The order also pauses refugee resettlement for four months and indefinitely halts resettlement for Syrian refugees.
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"The U.S. resettlement program is one of the most important resettlement programs the U.N. works with," he said.
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The family had completed their resettlement interviews and medical checks, and were fully approved for refugee resettlement in the United States when President Trump signed his first executive order in January, putting their resettlement in limbo.
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The trend coincides with an overall gutting of the U.S. refugee resettlement program by the Trump administration, resettlement experts say.
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It also temporarily halts the United States' refugee resettlement program for 120 days, while indefinitely suspending resettlement for refugees from Syria.
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Trump's executive order also halts the United States' refugee resettlement program for four months and indefinitely suspends resettlement for Syrian refugees.
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The policy also halts the United States's refugee resettlement program for 120 days, while indefinitely suspending resettlement for refugees from Syria.
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The current mechanisms for their resettlement — Special Immigrant Visas, P-2 visas and special government-sponsored resettlement programs — are not enough.
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But instead of blocking the resettlement of refugees, states, including those led by Republican governors, say they will continue their resettlement programs.
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And this year, far from doubling opportunities for refugee resettlement, overall refugee resettlement numbers are expected to decline by as much as 60%.
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Currently, the Office of Refugee Resettlement places refugees throughout the country with the help of national NGOs under the federal refugee resettlement program.
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It's time to launch a privately funded refugee resettlement account and ramp up the life-saving process of resettlement for our Central American neighbors.
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But the extreme reduction in resettlement numbers has been disastrous for the refugee community, according to Melanie Nezer, policy director of the resettlement organization HIAS.
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The State Department has told refugee resettlement partners abroad that they should proceed with resettlement of refugees scheduled to travel to the United States through July 6.
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Refugee resettlement organizations have criticized the move, arguing that allowing cities and states to block refugees from resettling there is un-American and will cripple the refugee resettlement program.
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He said that the last corrupt US resettlement process he was involved in, where clients pay between 10 and 20 thousand US dollars to guarantee resettlement, happened in late 2016.
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It bars people from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia from entering the U.S. for 90 days, suspends refugee resettlement for 120 days and Syrian refugee resettlement indefinitely.
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"Resettlement will always be a challenging thing because only a small number of resettlement opportunities are being allocated by the international community at the moment," Kubo said in an interview.
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Administration officials countered that though they would have prefer Dhiab stayed in Uruguay for the entire two-year resettlement period, the resettlement agreement was meant to mitigate risk, not eliminate it.
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But recently, dozens of governors have fought resettlement—perhaps most notably Texas governor Greg Abbott, who announced this fall that his state would pull out of the federal refugee resettlement program.
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Refugees who are initially settled in another U.S. state can subsequently move to Texas, but they would not have access to federal resettlement benefits, such as housing, there, resettlement agencies say.
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The immigration order from Trump bars immigrants from seven predominately Muslim countries for 90 days, halts all refugee resettlement in the United States for four months and bans Syrian refugee resettlement indefinitely.
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Refugee resettlement is a formal, organized process in which people displaced from their homes and living in camps in various locations around the world are able to apply for permanent resettlement elsewhere.
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" Resettlement agencies are working to keep volunteers engaged; in Miami, Teixeira (of the International Rescue Committee's resettlement office) tries to offer "hope that it doesn't mean that the family will never travel.
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Read: Trump is quietly winning his war against refugees Refugee resettlement experts weren't nearly as generous in their appraisal of Trump's refugee resettlement efforts, and say the data paints a remarkably clear picture.
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Once the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights refers a potential refugee to the United States for resettlement, the case is reviewed at a Resettlement Support Center, according to the State Department.
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From a security framework, it ensures that refugees who are referred for resettlement by UNHCR to U.S. officials have already undergone a U.S.-approved security screening before the first round of resettlement interviews.
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Resettlement in the United States, however, remains a political challenge.
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He's also applied for refugee resettlement in the United States.
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Refugee resettlement is not a free pass to another country.
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Then came security and medical checks and then, finally, resettlement.
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Refugee resettlement organizations are unsurprisingly disappointed in the administration's decision.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement is an agency of department.
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Resettlement agencies are being allowed to schedule arrivals until then.
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But it didn't explicitly say resettlement agencies don't count, either.
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Relocation and resettlement cannot work if hotspots do not work.
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We have traded a boat problem for a resettlement one.
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The resettlement of refugees in the U.S., however, is slowing.
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IRCC has pledged $5.6 million to support global resettlement initiatives.
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Yet today, the global refugee resettlement system is breaking down.
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The United States rejected his application for resettlement in September.
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It didn't become a resettlement leader out of pure altruism.
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Nonetheless, the resettlement effort under President Obama served American interests.
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This is either delusional or a euphemism for forced resettlement.
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Our [successful resettlement rate] is about 63 percent of them.
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"I have reduced refugee resettlement by 85 percent," he said.
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Texas has long been a leading state in refugee resettlement.
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Last, resettlement needs to be rescued from the US retreat.
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The government has offered limited support for resettlement, he said.
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Although the U.S. has long been a leader in refugee resettlement, it had just begun to accept refugees from these countries in numbers resettlement workers say are necessary to cope with the current crisis.
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Three refugee resettlement agencies filed suit on Thursday against the Trump administration for an executive order signed in September that permits state and local officials to block resettlement in their jurisdictions, the groups announced.
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The study examines initial resettlement costs, as well as fluctuations in welfare and government service usage during a refugee's first five years in the country, based on data provided by the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Trump's executive order prevents people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia from entering the U.S. for 90 days, suspends refugee resettlement for 120 days and indefinitely suspends resettlement for refugees from Syria.
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" Bob Oehrig, executive director of Arrive Ministries, one of Minnesota's refugee resettlement agencies, told the newspaper he was somewhat mystified by the vote, saying Beltrami is "not a county that's really had any refugee resettlement.
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They then refer strong candidates for resettlement to the United States.
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Ask them to support refugee resettlement for those fleeing their homes.
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The US has the largest refugee resettlement program in the world.
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The UNHCR resettlement target for Nakivale is just 700 this year.
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Similar concerns affect the resettlement of Syrians in the United States.
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Most of the organizations that do refugee resettlement are religious organizations.
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In exceptional circumstances some are sent abroad for resettlement or asylum.
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Only 1 percent of all refugees are recommended for resettlement globally.
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"The U.S has remained the largest resettlement for refugees," Baloch said.
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The order also gives Christian refugees priority in the resettlement process.
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They will go to government-sponsored resettlement houses across several provinces.
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I work with World Relief as part of this resettlement process.
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For many years, Fort Wayne was the most common resettlement area.
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Larry Yungk is a former Senior Resettlement Officer with the UNHCR.
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Still, 45,000 remains the highest refugee resettlement number in the world.
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"3rd country," she said, in a reference to resettlement in Canada.
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Moreover, UNRWA has stifled Palestinian development and resettlement through aid dependency.
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The government resettlement program has been far-reaching, transforming Yugur society.
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Do the nomads have to spend the winter in resettlement villages?
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Several American states have tried to block the resettlement of Syrians.
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Licensed professionals with the Office of Refugee Resettlement run the facility.
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But numerous layers of protection are built into the resettlement process.
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Greg Abbott ordered a state withdrawal from the federal resettlement program.
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Trump took issue with Turnbull's push for a refugee resettlement plan.
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Travel and refugee resettlement was allowed to resume during the interim.
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The Trump administration's cuts to resettlement send the exact opposite message.
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The resettlement decision, the law states, cannot be appealed in court.
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Rather than building walls, we could provide refugee resettlement and asylum.
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Monday's announcement was met with swift condemnation from refugee resettlement organizations.
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Yes, upgrading refugee camps and improving the resettlement process is important.
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Some governors have come out in support of the resettlement program.
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The groups make up three of the nine U.S. resettlement agencies.
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Additionally, 12 municipalities have also written to the department about resettlement.
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But around the country, refugees, resettlement workers and volunteers expressed panic.
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The center is run by the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Go deeper: Refugee resettlement agencies sue Trump admin over executive order
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The United States resettlement program is critical to global humanitarian efforts.
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The other issue is that the resettlement has to be voluntary.
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The order also suspended the refugee resettlement program for four months.
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The country was still a week away from Trump's inauguration and no one working inside IRIS's overstuffed offices could know how quickly he would move to freeze all U.S. resettlement operations and suspend Syrian resettlement indefinitely.
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"One of the other very difficult aspects of the executive order was the financial implications faced by the local resettlement offices," Sarah Krause, a senior director for the national resettlement agency Church World Service, told CNN.
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The executive order bans people from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan and Somalia from entering the U.S. for 90 days, temporarily halts the country's refugee resettlement program and indefinitely suspends resettlement for refugees from Syria.
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Those newcomers contribute to the economy both by supporting local businesses and creating their own businesses, according to Corine Dehabey, a resettlement coordinator for US Together, a refugee resettlement agency with offices in Cleveland and Toledo.
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The executive order under question bans people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia from entering the U.S. for 90 days, suspends refugee resettlement for 120 days and indefinitely suspends resettlement for Syrian refugees.
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Three resettlement agencies -- HIAS, Church World Service, and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service -- claim that the executive order violates federal law and is another attempt by the administration to restrict refugee resettlement in the United States.
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As someone who has worked in refugee resettlement for five years, including as a legal adviser and a co-founder of a refugee resettlement clinic in Egypt, I can tell you how wrong Trump's characterization is.
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The order bars people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia from entering the country for 90 days; suspends the country's refugee resettlement program for 120 days; and indefinitely suspends resettlement of refugees from Syria.
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Trump's order barred people from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan and Somalia from entering the U.S. for 90 days; halted the U.S. refugee resettlement program for 120 days; and indefinitely suspended resettlement of refugees from Syria.
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Refugee groups relieved Refugee resettlement agencies across the US welcomed Robart's ruling.
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The UN decides the most vulnerable cases and refers them for resettlement.
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In the case of Syria, the resettlement process has been halted indefinitely.
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According to the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement which oversees this facility.
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Despite Hindu delight at Modi's move, rapid resettlement does not look likely.
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Mr Palmer is a fan of the president's, for slashing refugee resettlement.
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Refugee resettlement numbers in Australia and the U.K. also fell last year.
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The result has been high resettlement costs and a reduced tax base.
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Resettlement is the most direct thing rich countries can do for refugees.
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Worse yet, wealthy nations have walked away from their commitment to resettlement.
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"Resettlement is a very safe way of taking people in," she said.
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The president said he would reduce refugee resettlement by 85%, CNN reported.
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When a child does leave, the Office of Refugee Resettlement is notified.
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Hui people I met elsewhere were less sanguine about the resettlement scheme.
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The results were mixed, and refugee resettlement was professionalized starting in 1980.
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The order still bars refugee resettlement in the U.S. for 120 days.
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Mohamed's resettlement application, which had been years in the making, abruptly stalled.
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The EU has capped the one-for-one resettlement scheme at 72,000.
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It had targeted resettlement of the 25,000 by the end of 2015.
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The executive order also stopped the resettlement of refugees for 120 days.
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Indonesian officials, however, say that permanent resettlement here is not an option.
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Reuters has interviewed six Myanmar officials involved with repatriation and resettlement plans.
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Most have already sought refugee status, and some are waiting for resettlement.
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Refugee resettlement groups say there is no evidence to support such concerns.
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About a year later, he received a second letter, denying him resettlement.
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The word has trickled down from the State Department's refugee resettlement program.
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Resettlement to the United States often requires years-long and rigorous vetting.
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Resettlement agency assistance was temporary and many job seekers didn't speak English.
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But he insisted it doesn't give them a veto over resettlement decisions.
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Turkish officials have not indicated when any resettlement of refugees would begin.
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But the recent discussions about ending resettlement, he said, had been hurtful.
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Expert review of the resettlement vetting process is part of good government.
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Resettlement of those groups has also slowed to a trickle this year.
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The limits to refugee resettlement were imposed, ostensibly, to protect national security.
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"We cannot discuss the details of a detainee's decision not to accept resettlement in a third country, other than to note that he declined to accept the offer for resettlement," Pentagon spokesman Gary Ross said in a statement.
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We can help only a tiny fraction by resettlement in the United States.
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"Hello, this is the resettlement office from the American Embassy," the voice said.
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Now they want the government to propose a concrete plan for their resettlement.
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The steady decrease in refugee admissions has hurt resettlement agencies across the country.
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The right-wing rhetoric against resettlement is building again as midterm elections approach.
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The administration objected, saying the relationship between refugees and resettlement agencies shouldn't count.
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Resettlement is a life-saving activity, and more of it is urgently needed.
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Africa's LGBT refugees would no longer be on the fast track to resettlement.
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It's a number that few in the resettlement world felt was remotely sufficient.
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It is usually one of the last steps in the refugee resettlement process.
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Their speedy resettlement shows that France has plenty of capacity to absorb migrants.
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Help us save refugee resettlement in the U.S. RT if you #StandWithRefugees pic.twitter.
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The Margaret Chisholm Resettlement House is privately run by Calgary's Catholic Immigration Society.
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President Obama committed to the target as part of the Syrian resettlement program.
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Without it the right to asylum, and the prospect of resettlement, will evaporate.
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And the West's resettlement efforts should extend beyond Turkey to Jordan and Lebanon.
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The new order bars all refugee resettlement in the U.S. for 120 days.
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But a recent conference in Geneva failed to attract many new resettlement pledges.
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His office, where he works on refugee resettlement, was just a block away.
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L.V.M.'s mother complied with every request the resettlement agency made of her.
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Australia has sought other locations for resettlement, including Cambodia and the United States.
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Applicants for resettlement for whom any gray area is identified are not admitted.
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But under the Trump administration, the resettlement program has been infused with uncertainty.
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Then the Obama administration released another 200 through third-country resettlement or repatriation.
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Travel must be coordinated through two international resettlement organizations and the State Department.
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It needed $250,000 for its resettlement program to remain solvent, Ms. Plummer said.
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We will work for durable solutions, whether through return, resettlement or local integration.
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IRC helps people in crisis and continues the hard work through refugee resettlement.
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Permanent resettlement is not the only form of people moving that needs considering.
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Of that amount, a bit over $33 million went to the resettlement agencies.
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TARA GARCÍA MATHEWSON Refugees who dream of resettlement and college face tough odds.
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The Trump administration argues that refugee-resettlement organizations aren't a "bona fide" relationship.
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While resettlement is a lifesaving and lasting solution for those with nowhere else to go, some elected officials in the U.S. — including President Donald Trump — have promoted harmful policies based on misinformation and misconceptions about refugees and how resettlement really works.
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Trump's executive order bans for 90 days people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia from entering the U.S. It also suspends the country's refugee resettlement program for 120 days and indefinitely suspends resettlement for refugees from Syria.
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Trump's action bans people from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan and Somalia from entering the U.S. for 2628 days, and temporarily halts the United States' refugee resettlement program for 28503 days, while indefinitely suspending resettlement for refugees from Syria.
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Trump's action bans people from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan and Somalia from entering the U.S. for 85033 days, and temporarily halts the United States' refugee resettlement program for 120 days, while indefinitely suspending resettlement for refugees from Syria.
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The order aimed to block people from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan and Somalia from entering the U.S. for 90 days and temporarily halt the U.S. refugee resettlement program for 120 days, while indefinitely suspending resettlement for refugees from Syria.
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The executive order bans people from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan and Somalia from entering the U.S. for 85033 days and temporarily halts the United States' refugee resettlement program for 120 days, while indefinitely suspending resettlement for refugees from Syria.
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Although refugee resettlement is often managed by religious nonprofits, even many religious conservatives have come out in favor of President Donald Trump's executive order pausing refugee acceptance, lowering the resettlement cap, permanently blocking Syrian refugees, and creating new hurdles for admission.
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A commenter on another website called The Muslim Issue posted the phone numbers and email addresses for the town's government officials, the head of the refugee-resettlement center and some administrators at the college, which runs the refugee resettlement program.
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By slashing total refugee resettlement numbers — and by halting all resettlement from Muslim-majority countries such as Iran and Iraq from which persecuted Christians had been a significant share of refugee arrivals — these policies have harmed thousands of Christians as well.
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Refugees can access services from the resettlement centers for up to five years after they first arrive, so the closures could potentially affect thousands of recent arrivals, said Robert Carey, who directed the Office of Refugee Resettlement under President Barack Obama.
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The teenagers sued the Office of Refugee Resettlement between late 2017 and early 2018.
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In 2015, the total number of resettlement places offered around the world was 134,000.
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Under Trump's executive order, the resettlement process for Syrian refugees has been halted indefinitely.
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First, the attack on the refugee resettlement program, which is an American success story.
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Liu flew to Thailand, where she is now a U.N.-registered refugee awaiting resettlement.
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The U.N. refugee agency has referred Qunun to Australia for consideration for refugee resettlement.
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Ora Warmflash is a co-chair of the South Orange/Maplewood Refugee Resettlement Committee.
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His business is now focused on other countries, where refugee resettlement quotas are higher.
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After the resettlement, 105 detainees remain at Guantánamo, and 46 are recommended for transfer.
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Some also see resettlement as part of a broader erosion of their ethnic identity.
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Myanmar officials have said the villages were bulldozed to make way for refugee resettlement.
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Trapped in limbo, they wait for resettlement abroad, too afraid to return to Somalia.
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Critics of the resettlement law plan to hold a protest rally on May 14.
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The report also projected slashing funding to the refugee resettlement program by 25 percent.
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Religious communities built the U.S. refugee resettlement program, long before the government was involved.
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On the campaign trail, Trump advocated for ceasing immigration and refugee resettlement of Muslims.
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Vague promises of mass resettlement of refugees from Turkey to Europe have not materialised.
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His so-called Muslim ban and cuts to resettlement have received the most attention.
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"It's most advisable to create a resettlement plan," Castro told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Gregg said she's learned that those people work with the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Many were scattered in facilities across the country by the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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In April, the governor withdrew Kansas entirely from the federal government's refugee resettlement program.
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Everyone involved in the resettlement process has treated us with full respect and kindness.
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The migrant children's program is run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement under HHS.
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This story has been updated with a statement from the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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"We frankly see no realistic alternative to their resettlement in the UK," he said.
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Temporary shelters and short-term resettlement centers were eventually replaced by permanent housing estates.
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And our country should provide protection by honoring our historic commitment to refugee resettlement.
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They were placed into shelters operated by the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
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Equally important will be a push toward new and improved United Nations' resettlement programs.
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Ries is also incorrect in saying refugee advocates "profit" from the refugee resettlement process.
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Many more Syrian refugees are affected by the indefinite suspension of resettlement of Syrians.
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Bills related to refugee resettlement were introduced in about half the states this year.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement oversees shelters across the country that hold unaccompanied children.
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"As a result, Texas cannot consent," to refugee resettlement this fiscal year, he said.
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And even if granted asylum, the migrants are still barred from resettlement in Australia.
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Representatives of some resettlement agencies said they were awaiting guidance from the State Department.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement is a component agency of Health and Human Services.
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Then there are the bigger obstacles of resettlement, such as housing and job insecurity.
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Since resettlement usually takes years, the impact could last well beyond the Trump era.
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He and most of his former neighbors have done well since resettlement, he said.
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And it still is, despite centuries of violence, resettlement, and repression of Native Americans.
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"The United States is cutting refugee resettlement to half of what it was last year, and a quarter of what it was in 1980," Michael Rinehart, chairman of the board for the resettlement agency Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, said in a statement.
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"But many of the refugees will be expecting resettlement in Europe, which can often take time - and you have to wonder if the EU is going to make these resettlement places available," added Crisp, a research associate at Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre.
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The anxiety among resettlement officials here has grown in recent weeks after the mayor of neighboring Springfield, one of the largest cities in Western Massachusetts, became one of the first politicians in the country to announce that he would not allow refugee resettlement.
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"During the Trump administration, there's been this narrative that Republicans don't support resettlement, but it's just not the case," said Jen Smyers, director of policy and advocacy for the immigration and refugee program at Church World Service, one of nine resettlement agencies.
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" A UNHCR spokesperson said generally that resettlement "remains a vital durable solution for some of the world's most vulnerable people," but added that it's "disappointing that there are more refugees in need of resettlement than there are places made available by governments.
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And the government is hinting that refugees who've been placed with a resettlement agency won't be allowed to come to the US unless they have close family members here — which would severely limit refugee resettlement in the US over the next 4 months.
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He says his case is on hold, apparently frozen indefinitely, according to the resettlement agency.
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The evacuees are being assisted by the U.N. Refugee agency in Jordan pending international resettlement.
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We're separating parents from kids and the kids are flooding the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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If someone is found to have committed a crime, that person doesn't qualify for resettlement.
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A local resettlement official takes the stage to share a rundown of the latest developments.
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Yet the organization expects to submit only 0003,000 refugees for resettlement globally during that time.
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Suu Kyi said spaces have been mapped out for the resettlement of people who fled.
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That same hotel has been housing Syrian refugee families as part of Canada's resettlement program.
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CNN agreed not to reveal his identity because his attempts to buy resettlement are illegal.
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The order also barred resettlement of refugees for 120 days and indefinitely banned Syrian refugees.
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The order could allow officials to effectively block the resettlement of refugees in their areas.
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The State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration notified resettlement agencies about the cancellations.
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RESETTLEMENT is one of the thorniest problems caused by the surge of migrants in Europe.
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Representatives of the Department of Homeland Security and Office of Refugee Resettlement declined to comment.
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In November 2015, the governor directed state agencies to suspend the resettlement of Syrians there.
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Updated with information about portions of the Office of Refugee Resettlement documents unsealed on Friday.
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The drop was due to a reduction in the number of resettlement places on offer.
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She started a blog, Refugee Resettlement Watch, to document her concerns over the next year.
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Twin Falls is one of the two cities in Idaho with a refugee resettlement center.
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Since then, they have done everything in their power to sabotage the resettlement program altogether.
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This prompted a massive resettlement of people to the Sichuan basin from all around China.
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One thing we hear is the need for more ambitious resettlement directly from the region.
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But it will be if the EU fails to make good on its resettlement promises.
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The Twin Falls refugee resettlement centre is managed by the College of Southern Idaho (CSI).
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Trump's executive order also put a 120-day moratorium on the country's refugee resettlement program.
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In 2014, they moved to Turkey and applied for refugee resettlement in a third country.
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In the U.S., the number of refugees admitted for resettlement is set by the president.
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School districts are not equipped to handle many of the resettlement issues our students face.
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"I'm not a big fan of [resettlement], but what are the alternatives?" asks Mr Grandi.
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There is no substitute for the powerful symbolic and life-changing nature of refugee resettlement.
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Earlier this year, he sought to bar the resettlement of Syrian refugees in his state.
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S. resettlement swap agree to with former U.S. President Barack Obama as a "dumb" deal.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement continues to oversee and manage the Unaccompanied Alien Children Program.
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Since 2002, nearly 250,000 slots for refugee resettlement in the United States have gone unfilled.
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Under Trump's executive order, this number will be decrease the yearly resettlement number to 50,000.
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And the agency expects that more than 1.19 million people will need resettlement in 2017.
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Resettlement agencies have had to restructure, and some fear they may be forced to close.
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It's true that flying people in and giving them basic resettlement support would cost money.
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Timimi's family members are currently in the resettlement pipeline, but their fate is now unclear.
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Diplomacy, resettlement and assistance work together — cutting off one bleeds the effectiveness of the others.
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Resettlement can be subsidized under a federal assistance program for residents of far northern regions.
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However, few of us are familiar with the intricacies of how relocation and resettlement works.
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The city was officially selected by the State Department as a resettlement site in September.
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So the family began a second journey: applying for refugee resettlement in the United States.
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So the family began a second journey: applying for refugee resettlement in the United States.
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And refugee resettlement, the department insisted, was not the only way to help displaced people.
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The slowdown has thrown the partnership between the government and refugee resettlement agencies into disarray.
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Torex also said on Tuesday resettlement activities for the families at a village were completed.
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True, under the terms of Trump's executive order Abbott is allowed to refuse refugee resettlement.
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Rents are low, but there are few jobs and no resettlement agencies to help them.
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One of the main opponents of refugee resettlement at the time was then-Indiana Gov.
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But officials said that a refugee resettlement organization is not a valid connection for refugees.
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The United States runs a vigorous resettlement program, taking in thousands of Somalis each year.
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But officials said that a refugee resettlement organization is not a legitimate connection for refugees.
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In 2000, 22025 countries committed to resettle refugees; today, just 25 have active resettlement programs.
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His areas of focus include legal immigration channels, state-based visa reform, and refugee resettlement.
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He built a razor-wire fence and organized a referendum on EU migrant resettlement quotas.
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After World War II, Jewish refugees were given priority in resettlement in the United States.
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So the immigrant flows prior to the '90s were around family reunification and refugee resettlement.
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Just 22015 Yemenite Jews now remain in the country, having rejected resettlement offers from Israel.
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Just 50 Yemenite Jews now remain in the country, having rejected resettlement offers from Israel.
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It took eight years for refugee resettlement numbers to reach pre-9/11 levels again.
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After President Trump's executive order last week, their resettlement in America was put on hold.
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The case of Loghman Sawari, one of about 1,200 refugees potentially eligible for resettlement under an agreement with the United States, has drawn world attention to Australia's tough line on immigration - and to what U.S. President Donald Trump has branded a "dumb deal" on resettlement.
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"The U.S. role in resettlement of refugees is one other countries have historically emulated," said Robert Carey, the outgoing director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, during a roundtable event on refugee response in December.
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The State Department uses refugee resettlement to leverage other strategic objectives to manage refugee crises — gaining support of other resettlement countries, convincing countries of first arrival not to push refugees back — as part of a tool kit that includes funding and technical and political support.
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The Resettlement Support Center compiles a file on each refugee and then the security checks begin.
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These brief anecdotes of survival and resettlement by no means encompass the entirety of their grief.
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Here's a look at what's happened with refugee resettlement since January, and what could happen next.
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The returns are to begin on April 4, as would resettlement of Syrian refugees in Europe.
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Anti-abortion activism has been a central effort in the Trump administration's Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Australia has said the "most vulnerable" refugees on Nauru would be given priority for U.S. resettlement.
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President Donald Trump's first so-called "travel ban" in early 2017 made refugee resettlement even harder.
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"Brighter future is not only resettlement in Europe," said Elise Villechalane, a UNCHR spokeswoman in Rwanda.
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The UNHCR began referring Syrian refugees for resettlement in the U.S. in significant numbers in 2014.
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Mr Makender, whom Lexington traced through a Lutheran charity that fixed his resettlement, is more representative.
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In December 2014 the United Nations identified 130,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees in immediate need of resettlement.
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The British Foreign Office said in November the government had decided against a resettlement in Chagos.
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"There are many countries that could offer places of resettlement and that do not," he added.
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Thousands of Moscow residents protested against the same resettlement plan in the city center in May.
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But Republicans in Congress, which funds refugee resettlement efforts, have posed a roadblock to further expansion.
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Her organization last year called for the resettlement of 100,000 Syrian refugees in the United States.
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He also held back on his prior criticism of Trump's hard-line stance against refugee resettlement.
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There's no resettlement arrangements; no education; they're not able to do normal things like have jobs.
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Many countries have had annual resettlement quotas for decades, agreed with and implemented through the UNHCR.
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At the last interview, officers from the Department of Homeland Security approved my family for resettlement.
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Administration officials have said they're examining the refugee resettlement process in the interest of national security.
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Lloyd's opposition to abortion first helped propel the Office of Refugee Resettlement to the national stage.
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But UN-Habitat, in its report, advised against forced resettlement and encouraged in-situ upgrades instead.
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The second is on the world's largest environmental migrant resettlement project, in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
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Hargan, has already documented egregious harms against other young women in Office of Refugee Resettlement detention.
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The Trump administration strongly criticized the agreement, but did allow the resettlement of the 54 refugees.
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According to Save the Children, Cox Bazar has the largest refugee resettlement population in the world.
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She said his family has twice been forced to postpone their resettlement because of Trump's orders.
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Said, 28, left his resettlement camp in northern France to try to find work in Paris.
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A refugee resettlement coordinator, originally from South Sudan My family are all Wiradjuri elders, in Bathurst.
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For the first time in memory, there weren't large numbers of Jews in need of resettlement.
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Indeed, refugee workers say, separations are especially painful when the youths are split up by resettlement.
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Opponents of refugee resettlement would have you believe that the country's enemies are exploiting the program.
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Almost every family in Russia had its own history of repression, dispossession, forced resettlement and worse.
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Today, those core principles present at our founding stand at the very center of refugee resettlement.
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Children traveling with them were then placed in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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What Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has in store is not a peaceful resettlement of Syrians.
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Western governments should continue to oppose any plans for mass, semi-voluntary refugee resettlement in Syria.
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Now that states can't just reject refugees, refugee resettlement agencies will be able to stay afloat.
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"The silver lining is that it's made refugee resettlement a state and local issue," Huang said.
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Refugees who are referred to resettlement in the United States typically wait up to two years.
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The cap, which officials argued served national security interests, is the lowest ever set for resettlement.
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The new homes provided by resettlement countries are lifesaving for people who have no other options.
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President Trump issued an executive order allowing states and localities to opt-out of refugee resettlement.
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In 2015 and 2016 the agency selected 6,444 refugees from the region for resettlement in Australia.
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For much of the past century, the United States was a world leader in refugee resettlement.
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"Northwest Rochester was Kodak country," said Michael Coniff, the executive director of Rochester Refugee Resettlement Services.
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The resettlement interviews are usually one of the last hurdles refugees face before reaching American soil.
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The recent dip in resettlement numbers mostly reflects the shrinking federal cap on them (see chart).
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Refugees Welcome Everyday Canadians spent a year embracing Syrians in the world's most personal resettlement program.
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The US would work with those countries to invest in preparedness and resettlement of displaced families.
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"That's not the religious minority community that is most in need," said one resettlement group staffer.
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Last spring, the company approached Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS), a Columbus refugee- resettlement agency.
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Myanmar's Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement did not reply to a request for comment.
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Counties that approve resettlement are not allowed to specify who is placed in their community. Gov.
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As part of the family's resettlement, the I.R.C. provided health screenings, vaccinations and Social Security cards.
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The resettlement program saves people who face circumstances more terrible than the average American can imagine.
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Judge Watson also ruled in favor of those refugees whom resettlement agencies were prepared to assist.
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The Daily Beast first reported that a reduction in the refugee resettlement cap was under consideration.
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So a delay or a halt of refugee resettlement is not like waiting for a promotion.
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If, and only if, the asylum seeker is granted refugee status, then the resettlement process begins.
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One of Mr. Trump's executive orders mandated a report on the fiscal impact of refugee resettlement.
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The furniture was collected by teams of volunteers for the local refugee-resettlement nonprofit, Canopy NWA.
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Uncertain future for programs "It's been a particularly devastating year for Church World Service and really for everyone that cares for refugee resettlement," said Jen Smyers, director of policy and advocacy for the immigration and refugee program at Church World Service, another of the nine resettlement agencies.
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"While we're grateful to the administration for putting back into motion the refugee arrival processes that have stalled for a whole month, we continue to advocate resettlement levels commensurate with the global need," said Scott Arbeiter, president of World Relief, one of the nine resettlement agencies.
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Russia said it would consider any secret resettlement of the Skripals as an abduction of its citizens.
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But then this big corporation is dangling this promise of resettlement, what's that doing to the community?
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Prime Minister Orban has dared to oppose the European Union on migration, challenging the compulsory resettlement quota.
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Based on these figures, the average waiting time for resettlement is in the range of nine years.
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Suu Kyi said on Tuesday spaces have been mapped out for the resettlement of people who fled.
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However, it should not be at the price of stopping and destabilizing a gold standard resettlement program.
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Opponents of refugee resettlement say it raises national security risks to the United States and is expensive.
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Part of that package includes $2.88 billion in funding to keep the Office of Refugee Resettlement operating.
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But a senior official managing the Dadaab camp system admitted that resettlement has happened for fake refugees.
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Regarding the resettlement agency question, the court did signal that it believed this was a closer question.
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They also both volunteer for the refugee resettlement program in Hyattsville, Md., of Lutheran Social Services. Mrs.
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After years of waiting, she landed a free flight to the United States through a resettlement program.
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Aspiring refugees with "assurance from a United States refugee resettlement agency", he said, could not be barred.
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Under the plan, the state contracts with a private resettlement agency for the provision of social services.
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Germany, which argued for the resettlement, says the entire bloc must act to solve a common problem.
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Preceding the backlog for resettlement is another backlog entirely: registering the camp's mass of immigrants as refugees.
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Last March, some of the refugees who had been expecting swift resettlement protested outside the UNHCR office.
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The Ugandan village of Bidi Bidi has become the second largest refugee resettlement area in the world.
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It said the cabinet had "directed resettlement of persons at risk of (further) landslides to begin immediately".
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He has little refugee resettlement experience, but he does have an extensive background in anti-abortion activism.
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Its business scope includes infrastructure construction, resettlement housing, water supply, sewage treatment, food reserves and forest preservation.
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For example, like many Republican governors, she has resisted the resettlement of Syrian refugees in her state.
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That policy prompted a flurry of lawsuits and a preliminary injunction against the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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In 2016, Heartland handled about 400 resettlement cases, and it expects to handle about 300 in 2017.
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"Resettlement remains a life-saving tool to ensure the protection of those most at risk," Mantoo said.
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Today it arranges resettlement only for the most vulnerable, such as unaccompanied children or the chronically ill.
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The current plan faces all the same challenges, illustrating the limitations of resettlement on any larger scale.
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It seems clear that there will be no Indochinese-style mass resettlement solution to Syria's refugee crisis.
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More than 100,000 who were driven from their homes by violence in 2012 are in resettlement camps.
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Groups like Bethany Christian Services, which works with refugee resettlement agencies, are worried about the mounting delays.
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Its first 18 students were recruited from homeless shelters and refugee resettlement programs, Amtrak's The National reports.
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Qunun will have to wait in Thailand until Australia has considered the UNHCR's referral for refugee resettlement.
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Before 1975, resettlement organizations took care of refugees largely on their own, using churches and other networks.
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If they cannot be fairly prosecuted, they should be transferred home or to third countries for resettlement.
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The U.S. remains the top choice of resettlement for most Syrians that The Hill interviewed in Jordan.
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The rift between Washington and Canberra that has developed over the resettlement deal could have serious repercussions.
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Mexico has become our best partner in clamping down on unauthorized migration and assisting with refugee resettlement.
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But opponents say the resettlement plan is a ploy to grab prime central land for plush developments.
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European Union countries had not shown "the required solidarity" to share the resettlement of refugees, he said.
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Hungary is also vehemently opposed to plans to offer refugees from camps in Syria resettlement in Europe.
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But authorities were "skeptical about in-situ incremental upgrading and prefer resettlement at this time", it added.
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Issues have included taxes under Obama's signature healthcare law and blocking resettlement of Syrian refugees in Texas.
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The order also indefinitely halts all Syrian refugee resettlement in the U.S. and temporarily suspends all refugees.
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Lawyers representing the Office of Refugee Resettlement did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Saturday.
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Mr. Hamid said he fears the Trump administration's immigration policies has effectively frozen his resettlement in America.
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The State Department usually handles refugee housing through its relationships with resettlement agencies throughout the United States.
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Anti-refugee publications tout a study claiming that resettlement costs American taxpayers about $1.8 billion a year.
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Canada, in the end, welcomed Alqunun and provided emergency resettlement, according to a statement from the UNHCR.
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Greg Abbott of Texas became the first governor to veto the resettlement of refugees in his state.
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"Right now, there's very little positive in the form of relocation or resettlement of people," she said.
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She even had Facebook friends who worked for Shell's foundation, which helped build a neighboring resettlement village.
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Soon, refugee resettlement agencies took notice and families from across the world found their safe haven here.
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This occurred during a period of rapid refugee resettlement due to multiple humanitarian crises around the world.
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That includes examining the leadership of Scott Lloyd, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, or ORR.
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Up to $99 million from within the Office of Refugee Resettlement will also be reprogrammed, Azar said.
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Agency leaders say the order effectively gives governors and county leaders a veto in the resettlement process.
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Agreement between the parties allowed a great deal of magnanimity – and paved the way for mass resettlement.
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Miles said the resettlement program not only saved lives but helped ensure the safety of the country.
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Britain, Canada and Germany were among the countries that offered resettlement and helped to arrange the evacuation.
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The land assets of such firms also lack value, and resettlement of workers is costly, he said.
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In November 2015, Mr. Pence announced that he would suspend Syrian refugee resettlement programs, citing security fears.
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The children, considered unaccompanied minors, are sent to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
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We cannot do that, that is why we have resettlement, why we have different types of partnerships.
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Everyday Canadians spent the past 12 months essentially adopting Syrians in the world's most personal resettlement program.
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Nearly 34,000 unaccompanied minors needed services in 2015, according to the most recent refugee resettlement fact sheet.
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Based on recent data, a majority of those selected for resettlement in America are women and children.
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This is incorrect; existing law already places strong emphasis on religious persecution among the criteria for resettlement.
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Her options: Likely candidates for resettlement include Australia, where she had originally hoped to go, and Canada.
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Customs and Border Protection and the Office of Refugee Resettlement did not respond to request for comment.
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In Miami, she helped other immigrants with paperwork and resettlement matters, like looking for apartments or jobs.
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Countries around the world are being asked to step up and increase their commitment to refugee resettlement.
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The order Trump signed requires that the government not approve any refugees for resettlement for 120 days.
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Friday night's court decision sent refugee advocacy and resettlement agencies scrambling to help people in the pipeline.
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Undocumented minors who cross the border are housed under the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Other predictions, such as those made in 1994 for the National Research Council Report on the Radiological Assessments for the Resettlement of Rongelap, declared the island safe for resettlement without even considering how much time residents would spend on different parts of the island, including their own houses.
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On the EU side, resettlement under this mechanism will take place, in the first instance, by honoring the commitments taken by Member States in the conclusions of Representatives of the Governments of Member States meeting within the Council on 22015 July 93, of which 29 places for resettlement remain.
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The original executive order, hastily rolled out just one week after Trump took office, barred people from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan and Somalia from entering the U.S. for 85033 days, halted the U.S. refugee resettlement program for 120 days and indefinitely suspended the resettlement of Syrian refugees.
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In 2020, the number of refugees admitted into U.S. resettlement programs is set to be at a historic low, having been capped at 21625,2900, down from the 220006 limit of 2202,2628 — which was already the most economical number admitted since the current refugee resettlement program was created in 28500.
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Resettlement offices closing As a result of the declining admissions under the Trump administration, all nine resettlement agencies have had to close offices or pause their placement programs -- chipping away at a system designed to not only place refugees but also help them integrate into communities across the country.
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Only then could the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement give the go-ahead to put families back together.
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On the home front, the inherently flawed policy to curb refugee resettlement in the US is on pause.
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Social services helps with non-legal issues, like resettlement, migrant rights and basic needs like clothes and shoes.
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When a child comes into the Office of Refugee Resettlement, they're provided with a know your rights presentation.
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The far-right National Front party said the current resettlement plan would create mini-Calais camps across France.
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For refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria, the suspension of resettlement in the United States is indefinite.
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A government spokesperson confirmed that Moe had been released to a sponsor per Office of Refugee Resettlement protocol.
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The final 7,500 slots are for those who are seeking family unification and have been cleared for resettlement.
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Mateo was being held at a facility for kids run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement in Texas.
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A previous resettlement scheme, designed to distribute refugees across EU member states, has floundered amid bickering over quotas.
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Trolls have accused Lee of taking advantage of the largesse of the state, which assists defectors with resettlement.
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The U.S. refugee resettlement program reflects the United States' highest values and aspirations to compassion, generosity and leadership.
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Contracts dictate that providers must complete prisoners' resettlement plans, but not how thoroughly they must fill them in.
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" But he also said "those who are deceived by religious extremism ... shall be assisted through resettlement and education.
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We need to get them help sooner rather than later so they can get to a healthy resettlement.
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Globally, almost 1.2 million refugees of all nationalities will need resettlement in 2017, 40 percent of them Syrians.
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For every Syrian sent back, the EU will take another Syrian directly from Turkey for resettlement in Europe.
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"Refugee resettlement applicants of all nationalities are subject to rigorous background security checks," he said in a statement.
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For refugees and asylum seekers, trauma experienced in one's past can make the resettlement process a lonely endeavor.
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Officials at the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which oversees such centers, were not immediately available for comment.
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This is the first time since 25 that the U.S. has not led all countries in refugee resettlement.
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This is the first time since 1980 that the U.S. has not led all countries in refugee resettlement.
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Three previous resettlement efforts dating back to 2002 failed after they became mired in logistical and political complications.
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It also noted that the building is not listed among shelters operated through the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Office of Refugee Resettlement policy dictates that its director, Scott Lloyd, sign off on all major medical care.
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They also rightly recognize the sacrifices made as part of the complicated decisions inherent to migration and resettlement.
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Fighting over refugee resettlement has intensified amid rising fears about the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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So our boys' story of resettlement here in the U.S. is deeply entwined with the current administration's policies.
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If that feels like a really big commitment, there are other volunteer opportunities with other refugee resettlement organizations.
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Tennessee on Monday sued the federal government over its refugee resettlement program there, according to a new report.
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The federal government has appointed Catholic Charities of Tennessee with administrating the state's refugee resettlement initiative, it said.
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Most are taken to facilities run by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Acting Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Director Jonathan Hayes argued in a statement that Deutch "mischaracterized" the data.
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Children whose parents waive reunification will become part of the US government's Office of Refugee Resettlement sponsorship process.
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India's Land Acquisition Act of 2013 replaced a colonial-era law, providing higher compensation as well as resettlement.
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The doctor in charge said we weren't allowed to go to America for resettlement until she gave birth.
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"We do not disagree with Australia's right to adopt a tough policy, for instance on resettlement," he said.
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The cases revolved around a policy implemented at the Office of Refugee Resettlement, under then-director Scott Lloyd.
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When Chobani opened its factory in Twin Falls, Mr. Ulukaya once again turned to a local resettlement center.
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The Virginia report notes that the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement restricted investigators' access to people and records.
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The resettlement has divided many politically active residents of St. Cloud, with some saying they welcome the migrants.
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First, evangelicals have been involved with refugee resettlement for a long time and in a lot of churches.
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Cuts in federal funding meant resettlement agencies in other parts of the country had to shrink or close.
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They decided to go to the Saloum refugee and resettlement camp in Egypt, more than 800 miles away.
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Texas is slated to receive about $100 million in federal funds for refugee resettlement in 2017, he said.
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Refugee resettlement has transformed Coffs remarkably in recent years, but not enough to warrant its own Afghan bakery.
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That would be the lowest figure since the resettlement program was created under the Refugee Act of 1980.
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Only 102,800, less than 1 percent of the total number of displaced, were admitted for resettlement in 2017.
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In slashing resettlement, the president is taking a recklessly narrow view of how best to put America first.
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The woods offer more stability, though "My Fair Lady" has meant temporarily resettlement on the Upper West Side.
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The UNHCR vets them and assigns each to signatory countries for resettlement — a process that can take years.
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The vote on the resettlement in the Duma was 399 in favor, with two opposed and one abstention.
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The refugee resettlement program is why I am alive today and able to dream of becoming a historian.
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He has relatives urgently waiting for resettlement in the United States, he said, and pulled out his phone.
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In Sweden, rising financial strains involved in resettlement were partly behind a move to introduce tough asylum laws.
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The action also blocks Syrian refugees indefinitely and suspends all refugee resettlement in the U.S. for 120 days.
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Making it possible for refugees to return home is a worthy goal, but forced resettlement is rarely successful.
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The resettlement officials at Jewish Family Service have tried to meet with officials on a near daily basis.
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People can support refugee resettlement and community sponsorship for refugees and helping those seeking safety establish new homes.
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The additional 2200,213 slots are for those who are seeking family unification and have been cleared for resettlement.
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A federal court blocked Indiana from doing anything to interfere with or deter the resettlement of Syrian refugees.
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Since the release of the executive order, some governors have come out in support of the resettlement program.
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"The Office of Refugee Resettlement has a very difficult task," Azar said in a briefing with reporters Thursday.
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She had family back in Hunan who, thanks to government resettlement subsidies, were doing better than she was.
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States pledged 50,000 new resettlement and other legal pathways for refugees to remain in host countries, he said.
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Trump also issued an executive order Thursday that requires department leaders to develop new procedures for refugee resettlement.
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Still, in early February, the Columbus mayor, Andrew Ginther, signed an executive order supporting the resettlement of refugees.
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Doug Ducey, Republican of Arizona, agreed after receiving a letter supporting resettlement signed by 250 evangelical leaders. Gov.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement was caring for around 12,400 children during the time of the IG's review.
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The asylum seekers fear reprisals if they move to transit centers pending possible resettlement in the United States.
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In 2015, he refused to close a Syrian refugee resettlement program in Indiana despite an order by Gov.
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Refugee advocates say Bartlett was a strong and effective advocate for the resettlement program inside the Trump administration.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement, headed by E. Scott Lloyd, is responsible for caring for undocumented, unaccompanied minors.
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American dream Zigorat checks his resettlement status daily online and says he will not give up on his dream.
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As a result, UNHCR submitted 54 percent less refugees for resettlement — from 163,200 in 2016 to 75,200 in 2017.
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Thao remembered once seeing a poll that said 62% of Americans opposed the resettlement of Hmong in the 1970s.
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According to the United Nation's human rights agency, resettlement needs in 2017 are projected to be 1.19 million people.
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We endorse many of those promises like building the wall, deportations, ending refugee resettlement, preserving the Second Amendment, etc.
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials have begun assessing the asylum seekers, although there is no timeline for resettlement.
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This danger is rooted in the fact that literally no other realistic resettlement options have been identified by Australia.
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Relocations are particularly fraught, according to Camilo Leon, a mining resettlement specialist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
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The International Rescue Committee called the decision to halt the U.S. refugee resettlement program a "harmful and hasty" decision.
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Set up in 1980, America's Refugee Admissions Program has overseen the successful resettlement of more than 3 million refugees.
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Picking a location for the new town is perhaps the most complicated and financially demanding aspect of this resettlement.
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Due to privacy protections, CBP referred the matter to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, according to an agency spokesperson.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement has contracts with nonprofit organizations that operate approximately 168 licensed shelters in 23 states.
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It is a welcoming, tolerant place which accepts more refugees for resettlement than any other city in the country.
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The government also excluded refugees who have an "assurance" from a resettlement agency, rather than a scheduled relocation plan.
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Instead, it put the resettlement agency portion of the order on hold pending the appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
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True, he saw earlier than others that borders had to be controlled before grand resettlement schemes could be countenanced.
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She explained that for the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), it's standard practice.
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Wagner runs the Administration for Children and Families, a federal agency that oversees the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
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The United States is the world's top resettlement country, taking in almost 85,000 new arrivals in 2016, UNHCR said.
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The former want culls of the wolves; the latter emphasise better protection for livestock and resettlement of problematic packs.
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Resettlement includes health screenings, medical care, work placement, and case management, so there are a lot of complex elements.
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It also indefinitely halts the acceptance of Syrian refugees and pauses the entire refugee resettlement program for 120 days.
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Majed El Shafie says he's tired of "political correctness" when it comes to discussions about Canada's resettlement of refugees.
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Congress passed a spending bill last fall that tightly constrained the budget for the State Department's refugee resettlement program.
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Trump said Friday that the U.S. could prioritize the resettlement of Christian refugees over members of other religious groups.
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Refugee resettlement and other exchange programs are also critical to demonstrating to Iraqis fighting ISIS that America respects them.
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"We are committed to protecting Central Americans at risk and expanding resettlement opportunities in the region," the statement said.
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Smaller cities will be most affected by the scaling back of monetized resettlement of shanty-town residents, Fitch said.
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Help from the rich world should begin with the traditional responses: more resettlement and more help for humanitarian bodies.
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Even those who are officially recognized as refugees are processed offshore and offered resettlement in other countries, not Australia.
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The children stay in the shelters an average of 57 days, a spokesperson for the refugee resettlement office said.
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Critics of the refugee resettlement program claim we don't need to resettle refugees when we can support them abroad.
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It also suspends the refugee resettlement program for 120 days and indefinitely suspends accepting refugees from war-torn Syria.
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Australia is now doing health, security and other background checks on Qunun ahead of her possible resettlement there. 5.
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The measure also halted general refugee admissions into the U.S. for 120 days and paused Syrian refugee resettlement indefinitely.
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Ms. Izhar has fixed her hopes on winning resettlement for her family to America, Australia or Canada as refugees.
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The Trump administration has been extremely critical of the costs of foreign aid, peacekeeping missions, and refugee resettlement/response.
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And in Dallas, a federal judge dismissed an attempt by Texas to block the resettlement of Syrian refugees there.
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Trump has argued that terrorists are using refugee resettlement as a kind of Trojan horse to enter the country.
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The order also suspended the refugee resettlement program for 120 days, with an indefinite ban on refugees from Syria.
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Refugee Resettlement has long since been a tool to assist those that are facing persecution in their home country.
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The number of children in shelters changes daily, said Victoria Palmer, a spokeswoman for the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Lykketoft also expressed hope that a UN conference would bring offers of resettlement of Syrian refugees from wealthier nations.
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Very few refugees eligible for resettlement are the unmarried, childless men who are most likely to commit terrorist attacks.
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Trump ultimately agreed to the resettlement on the condition that all of the refugees would undergo thorough background vetting.
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HIAS, the Jewish refugee resettlement group, brought my grandfather and grandmother over to the United States after the war.
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But issues such as land acquisition, resettlement and environmental clearances could make such an aggressive timetable untenable, Madhavan said.
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But human rights groups and the U.N.'s settlements agency, UN-Habitat, warned forced resettlement could make people poorer.
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"On behalf of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, please answer this questionnaire as soon as possible," the email begins.
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She launched a project last month to help rehabilitation and resettlement in Rakhine and has urged tycoons to contribute.
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The first four only applied to refugees who had already arrived in US airports, not to those awaiting resettlement.
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They were released from a children's shelter run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement to family members in Miami.
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The group also visited a facility affiliated with the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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The refugee resettlement program has a strong history of success — people cannot walk here as they have to Europe.
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This sort of silence from the White House is "very unusual," one resettlement agency official previously told VICE News.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) instead works with licensed shelters and care providers to oversee unaccompanied migrant children.
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The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement has a toll-free number set up for parents looking for their children.
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Children will be placed in the custody of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement, administration officials said.
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All of those detained outside Parliament on Wednesday while protesting the resettlement law were released, according to OVD-Info.
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Instead, under the pretext of Syrian refugees' resettlement, his forces will move in to destroy Kurdish fighters and civilians.
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Having left a resettlement agency's fold, the refugees no longer had access to interpreters, employment training and English classes.
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During his campaign for president, he tried to terrify Americans by distorting issues such as immigration and refugee resettlement.
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Supporters of resettlement say people living in the slums are too vulnerable to frequent floods and rising sea levels.
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Administration officials have been moving to scale back refugee resettlement in the US since President Donald Trump took office.
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What do you think will happen to the United States resettlement agencies if there are fewer refugees to resettle?
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East Lorengau Refugee Transit Center, the new facility on Manus Island, is intended to temporarily house refugees awaiting resettlement.
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These efforts, which the formal assurance embodies, evince a bona fide relationship between a resettlement agency and a refugee.
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Vermont has never conditioned and will never condition refugee resettlement on a refugee's race, ethnicity, religion or national origin.
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The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which oversees migrant detention facilities, also declined to comment on individual cases.
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The family was turned away when Mr. Pence, now the vice president, ordered state agencies to halt resettlement activities.
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Refugees have the right to move anywhere in the U.S. after their initial resettlement, but at their own expense.
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But refugee organizations have expressed concern that each veto could affect the federal funding dedicated for resettlement in states.
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When the zero tolerance policy was announced in 2018, he was no longer with the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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He met with Mr. Pence, discussed his objections and told him he would continue the Catholic Charities resettlement program.
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President Trump's executive order freezing refugee resettlement also froze her family's hopes of living together in the United States.
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At a time when annual resettlement admissions are in decline, it may even be easier to implement reforms now.
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Instead, the president suspended refugee resettlement, a move that was upheld by the Supreme Court decision this past week.
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Doe has been in the custody of a shelter operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement since she entered in the United States in September, and the administration has argued in court that federal policy forbids "any action that facilitates" abortion without the approval of the Office of Refugee Resettlement Director Scott Lloyd.
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When a refugee first arrives in the country, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program provides money toward basic resettlement services — such as transportation and temporary housing — for up to three months, after which responsibility for newly arrived refugees is handed off to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Each state has its own resettlement rules; in Georgia, refugees generally qualify for food and medical assistance for eight months.
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These kids are placed in one of about 100 resettlement centers that are the "least restrictive setting for the child".
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The resettlement deal, negotiated by Australia with the administration of Barack Obama, strained ties between the two allies last week.
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Signed on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Trump's "Muslim ban" halts the resettlement of refugees from countries such as Syria and Iraq.
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Trump ordered a temporary ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries and a 120-day halt to refugee resettlement.
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The long wait Of the refugees the UNHCR deals with, it only recommends 303 percent for resettlement to another country.
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Nine prisoners from Guantanamo Bay have been released and sent to Saudi Arabia for resettlement, the Defense Department announced Saturday.
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Only one climate-related relocation is currently funded and administered by the government: the Isle de Jean Charles Resettlement Project.
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The pace of resettlement has been sluggish, unable to match the urgency of the dilemma Isle de Jean Charles faces.
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People are seen at the Dabafayed Resettlement project for internally displaced people in Gode in southeastern Ethiopia, on Jan. 231.
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Each year, the US government takes in up to 100 defectors, many of them Russian, under its PL110 resettlement program.
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You can also reach out the Refugee Council USA directly to see what kind of help local resettlement agencies need.
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The recent spike in admissions follows the commitment of additional resources to the resettlement process over the past several months.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement would then make efforts to allow a child to communicate with their parent, she said.
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In addition, EU member states must commit to a meaningful and longterm resettlement scheme that includes refugees from protracted situations.
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The United States must also increase its commitments to resettlement, doubling its current commitment and resettling 140,000 refugees in 2017.
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But the Office of Refugee Resettlement (the same agency responsible for recent family separations at the border) had other ideas.
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During Lloyd's tenure at the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the once-obscure agency was the center of multiple national scandals.
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A: If parents are released, they can call the 1-800 hotline set up by the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Instead, it increases the burden of resettlement on more unstable countries, like Lebanon, Jordan, and (to Europe's disquieting relief) Turkey.
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But Rubin of the IRC assured me that Texas's withdrawal may even open the door to a better resettlement process.
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Hungary called a referendum on whether or not it should be forced to take in refugees under a resettlement scheme.
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Trump's order suspends resettlement of refugees from all nations for at least four months and indefinitely bars those from Syria.
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Countries such as Germany and Netherlands will have to be in the vanguard of resettlement; with luck, others will follow.
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One detainee accepted a resettlement offer and was on the plane but changed his mind before the plane took off.
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The Supreme Court didn't clarify whether simply being a client of a resettlement agency counts as a "bona fide" relationship.
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During the General Assembly conclave in the fall, Mr. Ban will try to drum up greater enthusiasm for refugee resettlement.
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Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said 2,880 applicants have been approved and are awaiting resettlement.
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Campaigners devote their energy to undoing Australia's offshoring deals with Papua New Guinea and Nauru rather than boosting resettlement numbers.
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Nations must make stronger commitments to asylum screening and refugee resettlement for large movements of refugees and migrants, not less.
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The House legislation has underscored divisions among Senate Republicans over how to make the refugee resettlement process more secure. Sen.
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After that, they must placed in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Finch said he hopes more people, and even refugees like Dalya would choose to sponsor people in need of resettlement.
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The move indicates that the required response is too much for the agency's refugee resettlement office to handle, Politico reported.
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Once a world leader in refugee resettlement, today it has admitted only a paltry number of Syrians in desperate need.
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Scott Lloyd, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), is a man who takes his oath of office seriously.
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India's land acquisition process lacks transparency, with fair compensation, resettlement and rehabilitation "the exception rather than the rule", IDMC said.
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Bangladesh's readiness to transfer the Rohingya to a squalid island raises numerous concerns and questions the motive behind the resettlement.
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"USCIS has stated that "information collected from social media, by itself, will not be a basis to deny refugee resettlement.
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I was then able to make a request through the Office of Refugee Resettlement that my son be given back.
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A government program to encourage resettlement in denser urban areas had offered people housing in Suqian, prompting a minor exodus.
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Then they must ramp up the relocation of asylum seekers from Greece and Italy to resettlement centers elsewhere in Europe.
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That would be the lowest level of refugee resettlement in the United States since fiscal 2007, when 48,282 were admitted.
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The U.N. high commissioner for refugees assessed Qunun's case and gave her refugee status, referring her to Australia for resettlement.
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Making room in the conversation about resettlement has been especially important to me because I know the power of storytelling.
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It isn't totally clear yet which of these factors is most driving low religious minority resettlement, but all seem possible.
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India's 2013 Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act replaced a colonial-era law with an aim to protect poor farmers.
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After 9/11, President Bush kept the refugee limit at 70,000 but temporarily halted resettlement out of national security concerns.
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Privately funded refugee resettlement is an easy way to bring new resources to the refugee program without new congressional appropriations.
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But such resettlement programs are a drop in the ocean, Grandi said, and they are at risk of drying up.
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Then, they have to work through the Office of Refugee Resettlement to locate their children and regain custody of them.
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Even as the crisis escalated, the federal agency that cares for unaccompanied minors — the Office of Refugee Resettlement — remained silent.
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The minors are kept at shelters and detention centers operated by various contractors under the supervision of the resettlement agency.
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Soon enough, with the support of organizations like HIAS, the Jewish refugee resettlement non-profit, they were on their feet.
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According to UNHCR, refugee resettlement takes six weeks for urgent cases and an average of a year for most others.
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He accepted $2,000 in resettlement aid, but did not move, despite assurances he would not be prosecuted, Mr. Nekrasov said.
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A policy enacted in June, however, requires the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement to approve every juvenile's release.
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"As Christian pastors and leaders, we are deeply concerned by the recently announced moratorium on refugee resettlement," the letter read.
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Instead of "curbing the resettlement of Somali refugees," as you report John Palmer tries to do in St. Cloud, Minn.
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Talking about the promises and disappointments of the complicated resettlement process, Hazim likened the experience to an unpredictable, dramatic ride.
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Between May and June 2014, the HHS, which oversees the Office of Refugee Resettlement, took in nearly 20,000 unaccompanied children.
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The situation of refugees hoping for resettlement in the West became more dire after President Trump took office last January.
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The Trump administration's abdication of responsibility has contributed to a 48 percent drop in global resettlement from 20113 to 2017.
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The Trump administration is making a mockery of a special admissions program the Congress established to fast-track their resettlement.
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A majority of them have been detained there for more than four years, and most are legally eligible for resettlement.
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Op-Ed Contributor Amid the world's worst migrant crisis on record, the Trump administration is cutting back on refugee resettlement.
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They were less likely to support the resettlement of Syrian refuges to the United States (27 percent to 71 percent).
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During the 1968 Tet offensive 560,000 people required resettlement, and the Easter Offensive of 1972 alone displaced over 800,000 people.
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Nonetheless, presidents of both parties have recognized the importance of refugee resettlement to this country's strategic and national security interests.
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The measure also froze general refugee admissions into the U.S. for 120 days, indefinitely pausing the resettlement of Syrian refugees.
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Around 12,000 undocumented minors are in custody of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Often, the only viable options are the American intelligence community's resettlement program or hastily arranged visas granted case by case.
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Even before Mr. Trump took office, resettlement of refugees was a protracted, interagency process, with vetting often taking two years.
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President Trump's executive order granting local officials veto power over refugee resettlement has divided communities and left immigrants feeling unwanted.
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"An assurance from a United States refugee resettlement agency, in fact, meets each of the Supreme Court's touchstones," he wrote.
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" USCIS has said that "information collected from social media, by itself, will not be a basis to deny refugee resettlement.
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In the minds of the Bangladesh authorities, the Rohingya are not refugees and therefore are not entitled to resettlement abroad.
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"They have been waiting for families for months," said Emily Crane Linn, resettlement director at the affiliate, Canopy Northwest Arkansas.
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The local resettlement agency, Canopy of Northwest Arkansas, arranged for church groups to take the Mwendas on their first outings.
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Resettlement of workers who lose jobs in the coal and steel sectors has been stable and orderly, the ministry said.
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He told state broadcaster TRT that Ankara would finance the resettlement on its own if allies did not provide support.
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Marouf, a law professor, fired off an email to the Office of Refugee Resettlement to ask whether this was legal.
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The smaller cities will be most affected by the scaling back of monetised resettlement of shanty-town residents, Fitch said.
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Now Republican lawmakers have largely turned against the U.S. refugee resettlement program, while Democrats have been trying to protect it.
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Churches and faith groups are huge parts of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's aggressive resettlement effort for Syrian and Iraqi refugees.
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" Trump claimed his order to freeze refugee resettlement was necessary to "keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States.
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On March 6, Trump proposed a new executive order and the federal government (and resettlement agencies) prepared for its implementation.
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Russia responded by saying that it would view any "secret resettlement" of the Skripals as an abduction of its citizens.
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Almost 30,000 vulnerable refugees overseas have already completed interviews for resettlement, said the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian aid group.
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The court denied those requests, but it did put the resettlement agency part of the injunction on hold pending the outcome of the Justice Department's appeal to the Ninth Circuit — a move that allows the federal government to keep out refugees for now who only have assurances from resettlement agencies and no other US connections.
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This group collects identification documents, performs an initial assessment, and interviews applicants to confirm refugee status and the need for resettlement.
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The U.N. Refugee Agency prioritizes the most vulnerable cases for resettlement, and refers them to the U.S. to review, Kassem said.
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He was detained by the Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas, and was transferred to an Office of Refugee Resettlement shelter.
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"As Christian pastors and leaders, we are deeply concerned by the recently announced moratorium on refugee resettlement," the evangelicals' advertisement says.
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Darlyn, who had a history of congenital heart defects, was placed in an Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) facility in Texas.
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"This is terrorism," Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, Win Myat Aye, who visited the site on Tuesday, told Reuters.
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NGOs, as well as the UN's refugee body, see humanitarian visas as a useful alternative to the cumbersome process of resettlement.
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Texas is second after California on the list of states with the most refugee resettlement in 83, according to government data.
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In Rochester, the Bhutanese are the largest refugee group, numbering about 2,000, according to the resettlement agency there, Catholic Family Center.
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Just last month, Trump warned in a podcast interview that a 9/11-like attack could occur if refugee resettlement continues.
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Joe Manchin, and the controversial former head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement Scott Lloyd was an attorney for the Knights.
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The case centered on the Office of Refugee Resettlement — which shelters undocumented minors — blocking pregnant teenagers in custody from obtaining abortions.
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Farmers are also being offered resettlement dues of 500,000 rupees ($7,409) or 50 percent of the land value, whichever is higher.
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Only 28% of respondents said they would be more likely to buy from a business that advocates for greater refugee resettlement.
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The redacted portions include recommendations about Jane Poe's situation by the deputy director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement to Lloyd.
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Mr Turnbull seems not to have raised the resettlement plan with Mr Trump when they spoke soon after his election win.
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National Briefing | Southwest A federal judge has again ruled against Texas in its efforts to stop the resettlement of Syrian refugees.
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It was the second time that Judge Godbey had ruled against Texas since it sued the Obama administration over the resettlement.
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Many saw it as an unlikely resettlement location for the 12 Syrian refugee families who were placed there in late 2015.
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Isobel Strong, a local councillor in Argyll and Bute, was a vocal proponent of the resettlement in the district she represents.
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The official said state governments can consult on the resettlement of refugees, but the program is administered by the federal government.
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Francis, a gay man from Uganda, had been granted resettlement in Sweden less than a year after he arrived in Kenya.
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The Brownsville Herald noted that neither IES nor the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement has said why the nonprofit shut down.
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Yet even within the limited UNHCR resettlement programme, a clear example of historical American leadership, the country's contribution is shrinking precipitously.
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That round of reforms led to around 28 million redundancies and cost the government about 73.1 billion yuan in resettlement funds.
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Canada has advised UNHCR, the UN's agency for refugees, not to refer any refugees in polygamous marriages to Canada for resettlement.
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White nationalists said they gathered in rural Tennessee Saturday to raise awareness about refugee resettlement and a shooting at a church.
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UNHCR said 1.2 million refugees are in need of resettlement globally from host countries like Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Kenya and Tanzania.
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Officials previously told Reuters that they were "in transit" and had already been cleared for resettlement before the ban took effect.
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Now, however, all refugee entry in the United States has been suspended temporarily — and Syrian refugee resettlement has been suspended indefinitely.
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"I've called for Scott Llyod [sic] to resign as head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement," Feinstein, a California Democrat, tweeted.
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"We all have a duty to do more to assist the resettlement and care of these people and to stand #WithRefugees."
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Now, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) will instead choose one or a few nonprofits to receive and distribute those funds.
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"We are worried that these closings are happening and that there are no corresponding openings through relocation and resettlement," said Grandi.
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One 36-year-old woman told Reuters by phone from Nauru she did not want to be too hopeful about resettlement.
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Many of them have family ties in the United States, she said, and have established relationships with US-based resettlement organizations.
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Resettlement is unlikely to come before Trump's January 20 inauguration, and Turnbull said the timeline would be determined by American officials.
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There are nearly 55,000 refugees and asylum seekers registered in Libya, where they face limited chances of resettlement, according to UNHCR.
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For the next two years, they will be involved in an intensive resettlement program that Birjandin calls a wrap-around system.
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This is another reason why safe zones in Syria are important for the resettlement of approximately 2 million Sunni Muslim refugees.
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The crisis needs a bigger resettlement programme than the one run by the UN's refugee agency, which has only 160,000 spaces.
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Fearful that another resettlement programme looms, Sinjar's Yazidi leaders liken a programme of "Kurdification" to Saddam Hussein's Arabisation in the 1970s.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement released some children to parents who were out of ICE detention before the lawsuit's reunification deadlines.
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Some stay behind to apply for refugee status and resettlement in a third country via the UNHCR, the UN's refugee agency.
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The measure also froze general refugee admissions into the U.S. for 120 days and indefinitely halted the resettlement of Syrian refugees.
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The United States could prioritize the resettlement of Christian refugees over members of other religious groups, President Trump said on Friday.
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He is now the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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It's "an utter fallacy," said Bob Carey, former director of HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement, about the current Trump administration's reasoning.
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Those connections are defined as family relationships and "formal, documented" relationships with U.S.-based entities such as universities and resettlement agencies.
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Too often such rich countries, having clamped down on irregular flows, promise generous resettlement to compensate but fail to follow through.
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Turnbull said in a radio interview that there was a "clear commitment from the president" that the refugee resettlement would continue.
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Last year, the UNHCR identified more than 1.1 million refugees from among the world's 22.5 million refugees in need of resettlement.
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A 2017 study from New America Economy found that increased refugee resettlement in the U.S. does not correlate to higher crime.
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According to the UNHCR, the US resettlement program is the largest in the world, with 53,716 refugees being resettled in 2017.
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The child was taken to a shelter run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement as is customary with undocumented, unaccompanied minors.
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Bethany Christian Services has a contract with the Office of Refugee Resettlement to help transition children from government custody to homes.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement has procedures for finding sponsors and guardians to whom they can release minors in its custody.
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"If the U.S. resettlement program stopped," said Chanoff, "hundreds of thousands of lives would be at risk over the coming years."
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Children are being held by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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The facilities themselves are largely reluctant to talk to the press, citing tight disclosure rules from the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Avramopoulos said resettlement from those areas will continue but there is now an "increased focus" on the countries from northern Africa.
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And it's still unclear what will happen to the children who remain in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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There are a number of organizations in Omaha working to support refugee resettlement, but most support comes within relatively limited timelines.
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Aid workers and state officials involved in refugee resettlement said the agencies were informed by the State Department in the Dec.
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Across the United States this year, two dozen resettlement offices, which are partially funded by the federal government, will be shuttered.
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The CAM program was phased out in FY 85033 because very few of the children were establishing eligibility for refugee resettlement.
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He also said earlier this year that his administration would prioritize the resettlement of Christian refugees over those from other religions.
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The detention facilities for migrant children are operated by a refugee resettlement agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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But in 2005, when I was 9, Maryan and her husband and son were accepted for resettlement in the United States.
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My family was also considered for resettlement, but our case has been pending all this time for reasons we don't understand.
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There is some concern that the resettlement is a way of clearing up the senzalas to accommodate expansion of the hotel.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement is responsible for migrant children who come to the United States without a parent or guardian.
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United Nations agencies working in the camps clustered around Cox's Bazar, in southeastern Bangladesh, have voiced scepticism about the resettlement plans.
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Refugee and resettlement groups were outraged at the reports that the administration was considering lowering refugee admissions even further next year.
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"The government must take stock of poor communities who need resettlement or protection from industries and real estate developers," said Matin.
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She is also, notably, an orphan, whose flight from Iraq and resettlement in the United States Noura has helped to sponsor.
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Mark Hetfield, president of the HIAS resettlement agency, said the administration's approach has also excluded some Christians from the Middle East.
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"When the news of that misunderstanding came out, we were surprised," said Win Myat Aye, the minister in charge of resettlement.
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The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement provides meals, medical care and educational services to these children.
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In 2007, arrivals rocketed to 14,173 as refugees parked in Malaysia and Thailand were approved for resettlement in the United States.
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Destroying our bipartisan tradition of refugee resettlement goes against the American value of extending a lifeline to the world's most vulnerable.
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Officials from the resettlement groups caution that lowering the ceiling will sap their ability to help refugees for years to come.
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The resettlement plan, which has been hotly contested, has been one of the issues feeding protests this spring in the capital.
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After six years, in 1999, we were selected by the State Department to interview in Cotonou, Benin's largest city, for resettlement.
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The history of similar resettlement policies shows that they can be brutally effective from the perspective of the governments orchestrating them.
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President Trump's order allowing state and local officials to veto refugee resettlement in their communities is likely "unlawful," the judge said.
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"Currently, there is one child in (Office of Refugee Resettlement) care proceeding toward reunification or other appropriate discharge," the filing said.
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This is ironic, considering that the ostensible purpose of Trump's executive order was to give localities a say in refugee resettlement.
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The administration said it was entitled to exclude refugees whom resettlement agencies had planned to help move to the United States.
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With Friday's letter, Mr. Abbott became the first known governor to issue a veto on refugee resettlement under Mr. Trump's order.
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Florida and Georgia, two other states that receive a large number of refugees, have not taken a public position on resettlement.
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Her daughter was transferred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which houses and places children that arrive on the border alone.
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In fact, since 2628, the United States has admitted nearly 28503 million refugees, which makes us the leading refugee resettlement country.
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"The kids are basically being used as bait at this point," one U.S. official with the Office of Refugee Resettlement said.
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RefugeeOne, the resettlement agency responsible for the family coming into O'Hare, had been expecting another Syrian family to arrive on Monday.
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The new restrictions would leave in place a suspension of the U.S. refugee resettlement program that the administration is also reviewing.
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In November, Health and Human Services confirmed that there were a record 14,000 unaccompanied children in Office of Refugee Resettlement custody.
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They are among the 3 percent of Syrian refugees selected for resettlement to a rich country, according to the charity Oxfam.
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Until last fall, Lloyd served as the head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is tasked with reuniting separated children.
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The UNHCR estimates that around 20,000 refugees worldwide would be affected by the hold on the U.S. resettlement program, Grandi said.
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The prospect of serving tens of thousands fewer refugees doesn't sit well with those who have devoted their lives to resettlement.
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That was the reason we decided to apply for resettlement — all I want is for my family to be together again.
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However, former Office of Refugee Resettlement director Bob Carey told VICE News that he never approved teens' ability to get abortions.
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UN warns of 'fear, censorship and retaliation' in Australia The announcement today that refugees must accept any resettlement option presented to them or face 20 years on Nauru or return to their country of origin where they fled persecution may be reasonable if a durable resettlement option is offered, such as is the case under the US deal.
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And no one in the Trump administration has acknowledged that the stop-and-start refugee resettlement of the past several months has caused several nonprofit organizations to have to lay off American workers — and that cutting the refugee program so drastically in 2018 will likely cause many more Americans at resettlement organizations to lose their jobs.
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Appropriate justification should include, a description of the global refugee situation, including what countries are willing to assist and admit refugees; an analysis of the refugees' countries of origin and the proposed allocation of admitted refugees; an estimated cost for refugee resettlement; and an analysis of the impact resettlement will have on U.S. foreign policy and domestic policy.
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"Setting a record-low cap on refugee resettlement, the White House is showing a stunning cruelty toward those fleeing our common enemies — enemies who intend to paint the U.S. as indifferent to refugees' suffering," said Hans Van de Weerd, vice president of United States programs at the International Rescue Committee, another of the nine resettlement agencies.
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Corcoran told me that in Iowa last spring, she handed her book, ''Refugee Resettlement and Hijra to America,'' directly to Donald Trump.
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Europe has accepted just around 850 Syrians for legal resettlement under the EU deal, and 22014 Syrians have voluntarily returned to Turkey.
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While the resettlement process usually takes 18 to 24 months, the surge operation will reduce the time to three months, Kassem said.
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Roughly 26,000 refugees abroad have already been cleared for resettlement, which means they've undergone sometimes years of extreme vetting and background checks.
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While Lloyd led the Office of Refugee Resettlement, he required all teens who wanted an abortion to ask for his personal approval.
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The government was happy to pursue, in a half-hearted and expensive way, resettlement options in Cambodia, Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
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Because of the logistical coordination required to organize refugee arrivals, resettlement groups reached by CNN did not expect them to resume immediately.
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The Refugee Affairs Division, which Strack oversees, includes dozens of officers charged with interviewing refugees abroad for resettlement in the United States.
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The EU will then take one recognized Syrian refugee out of Turkey for resettlement in exchange for each Syrian deported from Greece.
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Those include Secret Service and Border Patrol agents as well as the agency that clears refugees for resettlement in the United States.
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Still, for Kenyans hoping to fake their way into the system, the draw to resettlement countries including the United States remains strong.
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Unlike many of the others, he said, he would not receive resettlement money because he was no longer a rent-paying tenant.
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For one thing, there's President Trump's executive order attempting to allow state and local governments to stop refugee resettlement in their communities.
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Bethany Christian Services, which partners with refugee resettlement agencies, expected to admit unaccompanied minors and place them in foster homes this month.
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Additionally, the State Department announced on Wednesday it would be committing another $10 million to the UNHCR to help with refugee resettlement.
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To receive federal money, a state submits to the Office of Refugee Resettlement a plan for using the money to assist refugees.
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They only left the compound to buy food or attend meetings and interviews at various resettlement agencies, government offices, and foreign embassies.
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It was barely enough to pay the rent, much less purchase food or cover the transportation back and forth from resettlement interviews.
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Why does the Office of Refugee Resettlement refuse to release J.D. to court-appointed representatives to travel to a nearby abortion clinic?
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"The government should also ensure that young girls, who are particularly vulnerable when travelling alone, are urgently prioritized for resettlement," he said.
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"They've clearly found a legal way to enforce the Muslim ban," says Mark Hetfield, the president of HIAS, a refugee-resettlement agency.
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Then, this year, the Office of Refugee Resettlement drew scrutiny for its decision-making around children affected by the "zero tolerance" policy.
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The cross-country resettlement followed years of frustrated job searching after she was laid off from her job doing web-based training.
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The resettlement deal is available only to those currently offshore, and refugees will still need to pass U.S. health and security checks.
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The administration says the halt in the resettlement program is designed to give it time to tighten the vetting process for refugees.
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It also placed a 120-day moratorium on the country's refugee resettlement program and indefinitely halted the acceptance of refugees from Syria.
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Halima Abdi Mohammed, a 30-year-old refugee from Somalia at the Kakuma camp, applied for resettlement in 2013, before she married.
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A senior Turkish official said the returns would begin on April 4 and resettlement of Syrian refugees in Europe would begin simultaneously.
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U.S. District Judge David Godbey said the Republican leaders who have fought the resettlement have not shown Texas would suffer irreparable harm.
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Refugees who have "formal assurance" from resettlement agencies that they can come to the United States also are exempt, the judge ruled.
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There were 11,400 children in the overall shelter network run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement as of Monday night, HHS said.
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Up to 1,500 will be resettled in Calgary, and this resettlement house on the outskirts of downtown will be their first stop.
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In 2017, the Office of Refugee Resettlement under director Scott Lloyd attempted to block several teenagers in immigration facilities from getting abortions.
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Australia's relationship with the new administration in Washington got off to a rocky start when Trump lambasted Turnbull over the resettlement arrangement.
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The president on Friday signed an order that bars Syrian refugees indefinitely and halts the country's refugee resettlement program for four months.
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But in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network on Friday, Trump said that Christian refugees would be given priority status for resettlement.
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There is no talk of adventuring to Europe, no question of an organised resettlement to a country that might offer a future.
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And in 2018, the first year it will have full control over the resettlement process, it wants to allow in fewer still.
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The vote follows an executive order by President Trump that requires consent from both local and state governments to allow refugee resettlement.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement, the federal agency that oversees refugees and undocumented immigrants, had blocked the immigrants from having the procedures.
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European Union resettlement schemes need to apply to all people granted asylum, not just the Syrians provided for under the Turkey deal.
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Europe may be moving in this direction: the push for resettlement has got lost in the row over the deal with Turkey.
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The Supreme Court said it would call on Australia to provide a representative on Thursday to provide details on a resettlement plan.
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It pledged a 30% increase in humanitarian financing and a doubling of the number of slots for refugee resettlement to wealthy nations.
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According to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the program served 1,804 children in 2015, the latest year for which numbers are available.
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Because of that, refugees are viewed as illegal migrants awaiting resettlement in a third country, and cannot officially access education or employment.
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I.) wrote a letter Friday to the head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) arguing that the facility in Homestead, Fla.
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The suspension and long-term reduction in our refugee resettlement program undermines our historic leadership in the international community on humanitarian issues.
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The center is managed by the nonprofit Southwest Key Programs in coordination with the Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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They then submitted themselves to a legal resettlement scheme which sent them to Lithuania, of which they knew nothing but the name.
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Children are sent to shelters operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, while adults are sent to detention centers to await prosecution.
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And while families wait indefinitely for permanent resettlement, they spend years 'temporarily' residing in countries that prohibit their involvement in national economies.
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Those children become the charges of the Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families (specifically, the Office of Refugee Resettlement).
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As a result, their children are turned over to the custody of the Department of Health Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Today, RefugePoint tries to fill that gap, activating resettlement as an option where it is desperately needed, but often has been unavailable.
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So it's important to have case referrals from diverse locations to accommodate this uncertainty, and to ensure that resettlement is available equitably.
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Before Congress goes on break at the end of the month, lawmakers should do their job to fully fund refugee resettlement programs.
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Hawaii said in its court filing it was "preposterous" not to consider a formal link with a resettlement agency a qualifying relationship.
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Why it matters: European countries are ultimately responsible for deciding their own resettlement numbers, and are not bound by the EU's pledge.
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The United States is resisting resettlement of Syrian refugees because of the fear and ignorance many citizens and politicians have toward them.
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As of Tuesday, 11,786 kids were living in more than 100 shelters operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement across 17 states.
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Those children are put into a facility run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement [ORR, a division of Health and Human Services].
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Ulukaya hasn't merely involved himself in this issue, he's been one of the leaders in expanding refugee resettlement in the United States.
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It tied returns of migrants to progress on visa-free travel to Europe for Turks, as well as resettlement of registered refugees.
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The Canadian government oversees the country's refugee resettlement program from a distance, funding specialized nongovernmental agencies to do the hands-on work.
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More than half the governors of US states have attempted to block the resettlement of Syrian refugees, citing fears of radical Islam.
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He explained that most applications had been received in the last six months, and that the resettlement process takes about two years.
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Both parents are still behind bars in immigration detention centers while their kids are in the Office of Refugee Resettlement shelter system.
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These exiles, it seemed, no longer belonged in a refugee resettlement camp, which was intended as an interim location to await sponsorship.
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" Mr. Vargas added: "In general, resettlement countries were more generous in the past about providing opportunities in this part of the world.
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Similar to the witness protection program, the C.I.A.'s resettlement center is responsible for more than 100 agency assets at any time.
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Currently the unaccompanied minors get a "degree of priority" in processing for resettlement in the United States, an American refugee official said.
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Indeed, a law was passed allowing authorities to seize cash and valuables from refugees to help defray the costs of their resettlement.
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Some analysts have expressed fears that evacuees could end up staying in Rwanda for long periods awaiting resettlement in a European country.
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Robert Carey, who under President Barack Obama ran the Office of Refugee Resettlement, said the delays should not come as a surprise.
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A bit of background: The agency responsible for housing immigrant children and reuniting them with sponsors is the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Still others are interested in attaching to the bill language that would disband or change the Obama administration's Syrian refugee resettlement program.
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The administration had said it was entitled to exclude refugees whom resettlement agencies had planned to help move to the United States.
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He signed an executive order on Friday suspending the nation's resettlement program temporarily, with an eye toward shrinking it when it resumes.
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With the money, Erdoğan added, housing and schools could be set up in the "peace zone," which would speed up the resettlement.
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As long as we have a policy for refugee resettlement, we should ensure the system can meet the full task of integration.
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Resettlement programs can serve as political release valves, relieving enough pressure to make it sustainable for countries to host large refugee populations.
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Resettlement programs can serve as political release valves, relieving enough pressure to make it sustainable for countries to host large refugee populations.
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South Dakota passed a law limiting refugee resettlement in the state, while North Dakota undertook an effort to study the issue further.
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And organizations like Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities have been at the forefront of refugee resettlement in the city for decades.
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In 2015, Hogan was part of a group of governors who sought to prevent the resettlement of Syrian refugees in their states.
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For many of them, the only real option to ensure safety is resettlement to a more progressive country like the United States.
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Last year, he received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for supporting resettlement of Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks.
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" He then said he had "reduced refugee resettlement by 85 percent" and would "give local communities a greater say in refugee policy.
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They were told to submit their names for evacuation through Israel and Jordan with the prospect of resettlement in Canada, he said.
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Bethany Christian Services, which partners with refugee resettlement agencies, expected to admit unaccompanied minors and place them in foster homes in October.
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Washington, DC (CNN)Tennessee will continue to allow the resettlement of refugees in the state, its Republican governor said this week. Gov.
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A review of records prompted the Office of Refugee Resettlement to add 14 more children to its tally, the court filing said.
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Resettlement workers did not know if they would have jobs once Mr. Trump's refugee and immigration plans have been fully carried out.
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The ACLU planned to file the suit if the girl was not released by the Office of Refugee Resettlement by 3 p.m.
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The refugee resettlement agency World Relief closed its Jacksonville, Florida, office earlier this year as a result of last year's refugee cuts.
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Under the terms of the order, states and localities must consent to refugee resettlement before refugees can be sent to those areas.
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Myanmar and Bangladesh have signed three agreements on repatriation, but the reality is that any large-scale resettlement is a distant prospect.
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Refugees interviewed in Lebanon said that without an end to systemic torture, disappearances and arbitrary arrests, they would resist resettlement or deportation.
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Asylees can obtain social services through refugee resettlement agencies and apply for a green card one year after they are granted asylum.
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The resettlement agency also could not provide the number of children separated from their parents who have been sent to New York.
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Refugees, by contrast, are generally people outside the country who have met that bar and are seeking resettlement in the United States.
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And that is why there is not much in the way of a line to fill in resettlement forms around Cox's Bazar.
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Not a single mention of Trump's order, and a fair amount of propaganda about how much the US cares about refugee resettlement.
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Of those, more than 25 million are refugees, and 1.2 million are in need of resettlement to the U.S. and other countries.
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Another example is the Office of Refugee Resettlement, now headed by E. Scott Lloyd, a longtime anti-abortion and anti-contraception advocate.
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She has worked with refugees for almost a decade and is currently writing a book about refugees in the throes of resettlement.
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Refugees recommended for resettlement in the United States first undergo screening abroad, by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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In September, a 10-year-old girl died in the care of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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