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Refugee resettlement

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Jan 22, 2026

What are the exact state-by-state counts of Somali refugees for each year from 2015 to 2025 in DHS/OHSS data?

The specific, state-by-state annual counts of refugees from a for fiscal years 2015–2025 are not directly available in the provided extracts; OHSS publishes national-level refugee-by-country tables fo...

Jan 21, 2026

Why is refugee vetting important?

is important because it reduces security risks by subjecting applicants to multi-agency, biographic and biometric checks before and after arrival, while also acting as a recurrent filter that balances...

Jan 15, 2026

What barriers prevent Somali Americans from accessing SNAP benefits?

Somali Americans’ access to SNAP is impeded by a tangle of policy shifts, aggressive fraud investigations and data-sharing demands, and a swirl of disinformation and political targeting that together ...

Jan 15, 2026

What socioeconomic factors explain differences in welfare receipt among White, Somali, Black, and Latino households?

Differences in welfare receipt across White, Somali, Black, and Latino households are driven less by a single cause than by an interplay of economic resources, education, family structure, immigration...

Jan 9, 2026

How did refugee resettlement and asylum policies change from Obama to Trump, and what were the legal consequences?

The Trump administration sharply narrowed both refugee resettlement and asylum access through lower presidential refugee ceilings, travel bans and executive orders that halted processing and redirecte...

Jan 7, 2026

How do Somali-led organizations coordinate with faith-based resettlement agencies on culturally specific healthcare services?

Somali-led organizations act as hubs that deliver culturally and linguistically specific health and social services to refugees and immigrants, working alongside faith-based resettlement agencies such...