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The US has sharply restricted refugee admissions, particularly from countries on its travel-ban list, including Somalia.
Over the past decade immigration has been characterized by swings driven by policy, enforcement, and global events: total foreign‑born population rose to roughly 47–52 million depending on source and ...
The 2011 Iraqi refugee security case prompted the Obama administration to re-examine and tighten screening for Iraqi applicants, leading to more exhaustive checks against databases and greater scrutin...
The United States’ permanent immigrant visa system is composed chiefly of family‑sponsored, employment‑based, refugee/asylee, and diversity‑lottery categories, each governed by distinct statutory limi...
legally continues to recognize and provide under federal statute, but policy in 2025–2026 has moved decisively toward restriction: the executive branch has paused asylum adjudications, expanded travel...
refugee policy has been pushed into a markedly restrictive and discretionary posture by a combination of executive orders, agency directives, and political priorities that , prioritize narrow groups, ...
Somali-origin households in the United States — and especially in Minnesota — have been measured as having markedly higher rates of public‑assistance use and poverty since 2010, with several 2024–2025...
Ilhan Omar and her family fled violence in Somalia, spent years in a Kenyan refugee camp, and — after what she and reporting describe as a “painstaking vetting process” — were granted refugee status a...
U.S. immigration policy in 2025 both narrows legal pathways for new Somali arrivals and creates precarious protections for those already here: a presidential proclamation restricts entry of Somali nat...
Somali refugee resettlement to the United States began in earnest around 1990–1992 and escalated through the mid‑1990s with distinct waves from Mogadishu and other regions, producing major community h...
Federal law, executive decisions, and interagency programs shaped where refugees arrived and how they were settled in the United States between 2009 and 2017, with the Refugee Act’s placement framewor...