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A 2012 USRAP report to Congress states that United States involvement in discussions and actions concerning refugee resettlement have given the United States the opportunity to advance human-rights as well as influence other countries to be more open to accepting refugees. [71] The example given in the report is that of Bhutanese refugees ...
Global Refuge, formerly known as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, [2] is a non-profit organization that supports refugees and migrants entering the United States. It is one of nine refugee resettlement agencies working with the Office of Refugee Resettlement [3] and one of two that serves unaccompanied refugee minors. [4]
Afghan students in Oklahoma are benefitting from federal aid not available to refugees from other countries.
The URM program is coordinated by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), a branch of the United States Administration for Children and Families. The mission of the URM program is to help people in need "develop appropriate skills to enter adulthood and to achieve social self-sufficiency."
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).
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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
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]