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Consortium of federal agencies and nonprofit organizations working together, both overseas and domestically, to identify and admit qualified refugees for resettlement into the United States
The best available official counts show that roughly 54,000 Somali refugees were resettled in the United States during Barack Obama’s two full presidential terms (Jan. 2009–Jan. 2017), with the State ...
The core claim is that the U.S. pathway from refugee status to citizenship for Somalis remains the same in law—resettlement or arrival as a refugee, adjustment to lawful permanent resident (Green Card...
Minnesota’s refugee resettlement funding is a mix of federal per-capita payments to local resettlement agencies and federal block grants and refugee-specific service dollars administered through the s...
Refugee and asylum status in U.S. law protect the same class of people—those who face persecution for race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion—but the...
The Biden administration rebuilt the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, setting annual refugee ceilings at 125,000 and overseeing roughly 185,640 admissions from Oct. 2021–Sep. 2024 with about 100,000 r...
The U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) is run overseas by the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) with DHS/USCIS conducting refugee interviews and HHS/Office of...
Minnesota agencies primarily rely on electronic data matches — the Social Security Administration (SSA) interface and the Federal Data Services Hub (FDSH) — as the preferred first step to verify U.S. ...
Refugee resettlement destinations are set through a combination of federal oversight (State, DHS, HHS) and operational decisions by ten national resettlement agencies under State Department agreements...
Somali refugees and migrants concentrate in particular U.S. metropolitan areas because of pre-existing social networks, resettlement policy and institutional supports, economic opportunity and local r...
calls its refugee policy both secure and streamlined because it pairs legally codified, centralized processing systems and interagency with a coordinated designed to move vetted people from referral t...
Private sponsors and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) form the operational backbone of Somali arrivals to the United States in 2025 by making referrals into the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (US...
Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have long been formal partners in resettlement and refugee support, acting as designated voluntary agencies for initial reception, case management and integration—exam...
Available sources document multiple Trump 2025 policies that sharply reduced several categories of lawful admissions — including suspensions of refugee resettlement and broad travel bans affecting imm...
Official investigations and court filings in 2025 found that abrupt executive actions—an executive order suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) and rapid stop-work orders—plus the imme...
The Trump administration’s return to the White House in 2025 immediately tightened asylum access at the southern border, including shutting down CBP One appointments and closing ports of entry to many...
The federal policy on undocumented immigrants in 2025 centers on aggressive enforcement, expanded removals, and tightened eligibility for public benefits under the Trump administration, producing meas...
The United States sets annual refugee admissions through a Presidential Determination that establishes an overall ceiling and regional allocations, informed by interagency review, humanitarian priorit...
A minor refugee seeking U.S. citizenship must first enter the U.S. lawfully as a refugee or pursue a relief pathway such as asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) classification, or other humanitari...
The Biden administration has played a central and active role in reshaping U.S. refugee resettlement: it rebuilt processing capacity, raised admission targets and launched private sponsorship initiati...