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Headquartered in Texas and with national reach, RAICES, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formally known as the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, promotes migrant justice by providing legal services, social services case management, and rights advocacy for immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking people and families.
Newcomer education is a need with international implications. The Refugee Convention of the UNHCR in 1951 listed public education as one of the fundamental rights of refugees, stating that “elementary education satisfies an urgent need [and] schools are the most rapid and effective instrument of assimilation.”
Governor Abbott claimed that Texas had received more refugees than any other state, stating that 10% of all refugees in the United States had resettled in Texas over the past 10 years. [39] On January 15, 2020, a federal judge blocked the executive order, ruling that individual states do not have the power to deny refugees entry and that doing ...
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
Alight also manages successful income generation programs in the camps and hires and trains refugees wherever possible. In 2005, the government of Rwanda asked Alight to build a refugee camp at Nyabiheke to accommodate 5,000 new refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Alight quickly constructed roads, bridges, shelters, latrines ...
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Referring to it as Operation Lone Star, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has coordinated the efforts to bus 8,000 migrants to Washington, D.C., since April, including transporting 100 refugees to Vice ...
HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society [5]) is a Jewish American nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees. It was established on November 27, 1881, originally to help the large number of Russian Jewish immigrants to the United States who had left Europe to escape antisemitic persecution and violence. [1]