On Monday January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order indefinitely stopping resettlement of refugees in the United States through the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). Within a few days, the Departments of State, Homeland Security, and Health and Human services suspended all USRAP processing and refugee-related funding, including to non-profit, non-governmental resettlement agencies.…
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