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USCRI traces its history back to 1911 with the founding of the early International Institutes and Travelers’ Aid societies. The early 1900s was a time of incredible growth for the immigrant population of the United States, by 1910, three-quarters of New York City’s population was either an immigrant or a first generation American. This increase in the immigrant population, as well as increa
As part of its suspension of foreign aid, the administration instructed the resettlement agencies that integrate refugees into American communities to stop using certain federal funds — a ...
Only 85 refugees have entered through that program to date, State Department officials said, far below the goal of processing 5,000 refugees in fiscal year 2023.
“The refugee program is not just a humanitarian lifeline through which the U.S. has shown global leadership. It represents the gold standard of legal immigration pathways in terms of security ...
The immigration courts had a backlog of 394,000 asylum cases in January 2021, and 470,000 in March 2022, [81] although another source says the backlog in November 2021 was 672,000, with an average wait of 1,942 days (5 1/3 years). [82] The overall immigration court backlog was 1.9 million in August 2022, with an average wait of 798 days (2.2 ...
In 2018, there were almost 90 million immigrants and U.S.-born children of immigrants (second-generation Americans) in the United States, accounting for 28% of the overall U.S. population. [ 169 ] While immigration has increased drastically over the 20th century, the foreign-born share of the population is, at 13.4, only somewhat below what it ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend refugee admissions has magnified the fears of one Afghan American soldier who has long been worried about the ...
The Refugee Act was passed in 1980 to establish a legal framework for accepting refugees, and the American Homecoming Act gave preferential status to immigrant children of American service-members. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 provided a path to permanent residency to some illegal immigrants but made it illegal for employers ...