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The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is a program of the Administration for Children and Families, an office within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, created with the passing of the United States Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212).
Biden's administration issued guidance in 2021 that limited immigration enforcement near what they called "protected areas," superseding similar enforcement rules from 2011 and 2013.
ORR's Unaccompanied Alien Children Program began in 2003 and housed fewer than 8,000 children per year through 2011. [3] Significant increases in the population occurred during crises in 2014 , 2016, 2019, and 2020–21 all driven by a surge in unaccompanied migrants fleeing violence and poverty in the Northern Triangle of Central America .
While asylum denial rates had grown to a peak of 71 percent in FY 2020, they fell to 63 percent in FY 2021. [10] One third of asylum seekers go to courts unrepresented although those with legal representation have higher chances of winning. [11]
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The lawsuit, filed late on Monday, was the first to challenge President Donald Trump over asylum since the U.S. Supreme Court decided last week that an anti-asylum rule will be allowed to take ...
The Office of Children's Issues is an agency of the Bureau of Consular Affairs, which in turn is part of the U.S. Department of State.The Office of Children's Issues was created in 1994 under the leadership of Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Mary Ryan and that of her successor Maura Harty. [1]