The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration services provider recently announced the agency’s new mission statement, which reads “USCIS upholds America’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility with fairness, integrity, and respect for all we serve.” USCRI applauds USCIS and thanks the Administration for following through in its commitment to ensure the dignity of all […]
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Black History Month Spotlight: Dr. Omer Abdalla Omer
His name in Arabic translates to “The One Who Builds,” and Dr. Omer Abdalla Omer, USCRI North Carolina Field Office Director, has lived up to his name’s meaning. Omer, who was born in Sudan, has dedicated his life to building refugee and immigrant communities, both in the United States and abroad. “That’s been my life,” […]
Assessing & Alleviating Implementation Gaps in U.S. Trafficking Policy for Foreign National Child and Youth Trafficking Survivors
This policy paper identifies four areas where policy does not reach child trafficking survivors, and provides recommendations on how the U.S. government can amend policies and practices to ensure it does not fall short on protecting foreign national child survivors of human trafficking. Click here to read the full piece.
USCRI Urges the Current Administration to Redesignate Honduras for TPS
The U.S. Vice President traveled to Honduras yesterday for the inauguration of the new president, Xiomara Castro. The Vice President’s visit comes at a pivotal moment for Central America, which is dealing with economic crises, the COVID pandemic, violence, and a related rise in migration. “If the Administration is committed to its goal of addressing […]
USCRI Calls for Coordinated and Expedited International Action on Eritrean Refugees
According to UNHCR, three Eritrean refugees were killed in an airstrike that hit the Mai Aini refugee camp in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray. “We are dismayed by the seemingly deliberate targeting of refugees in this attack,” says USCRI President and CEO Eskinder Negash. “This affirms a call our organization has long been making […]
USCRI Brief: How the “Zero Tolerance” Family Separation Policy Harmed Children and Families?
Perhaps ironically – because it is the national holiday of family togetherness – Thanksgiving 2021 marked the fourth anniversary of public knowledge that the U.S. government’s “zero tolerance” policy that separated children from their families. On November 25, 2017, the Houston Chronicle reported that the prior administration had been separating parents who crossed the border […]
Current Administration’s Expansion of Migrant Protection Protocols are a Stain on the U.S. Immigration System
The current administration’s decision to not only reinstate, but to broaden Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as the ‘Remain in Mexico’ program, is a repudiation of U.S. immigration law and our country’s commitment to providing safety to individuals fleeing persecution. A Trump-era immigration policy, MPP was responsible for sending nearly 70,000 asylum seekers, primarily […]
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Celebrates Welcome.US Grant Award
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants is pleased to announce that it has been selected to receive a grant worth $349K from the Welcome Fund, an initiative of Welcome.US, that will go toward efforts to resettle Afghan arrivals. The Welcome Fund, launched in September, recently announced the first round of awards totaling $8.3 million […]
USCRI Statement on DHS’ New Migrant Protection Protocols Termination Memo
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) commends the Biden administration and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for drafting a new memorandum justifying its decision to end the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). MPP is a policy that has endangered thousands of asylum seekers by forcing them to stay in dangerous Mexican border towns […]
USCRI Joins Haitian Bridge Alliance & 81 Other Organizations Condemning Haitian Expulsions
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, and Haitian Bridge Alliance, as well as eighty-one other organizations write to condemn the new “Strategy to Address Increase in Migrants in Del Rio” adopted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on September 18, and to request that DHS immediately rescind the strategy in its entirety and […]
