Eritrean refugees remaining in Tigray and other parts of northern Ethiopia are in danger. Various state and regional actors in the ongoing conflict in Tigray view these refugees with suspicion or outright hostility. First-hand witnesses, corroborated by other credible sources, report that Eritrean refugees have been subject to harassment, beatings, forced removal and refoulement, abductions, […]
Author: USCRI
Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide? Either Way, the World Must Act to Prevent Further Atrocities in Tigray
The Tigray region of Ethiopia is under siege, with Ethiopian and Eritrean forces at war with the armed forces of the Tigray Regional Government, a group fighting for the region’s autonomy under the current Ethiopian Constitution. The violence has caused massive displacement in the region, both of Eritrean refugees previously in Tigray, and of Tigrayans […]
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) Backgrounder: Cameroon
After many years of being considered one of Africa’s more peaceful countries, Cameroon is now struggling with the combined threats of a civil war in the south, terrorist attacks in the north, increasing political corruption, and the negative impacts of climate change. As a result, Cameroon is seeing high numbers of internally displaced persons within […]
USCRI Policy Snapshot: A situational update on Haiti and Cuba
On July 13, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas warned that people fleeing Haiti and Cuba by boat would not be permitted in the United States. “The time is never right to attempt migration by sea. To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking,” he said at a Department […]
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants’ Statement on the Arrival of the First Afghan Allies
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants commends the Biden administration for facilitating the safe arrival of the first Afghan allies early this morning. Additionally, we are grateful to U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy, Jeanne Shaheen, and Richard Shelby, for swiftly passing H.R. 3237 last night, and U.S. Representatives Steny Hoyer, Jason Crow, Seth Moulton, and […]
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) Backgrounder: Myanmar
A military coup on February 1, 2021, has stalled both Myanmar’s economy and its slow progress toward democratization. It is also worsening displacement trends in a country that was already the source of one of the most serious refugee crises in the world. Since the coup, thousands have fled their homes as the Tatmadaw military […]
Empowering Other Refugees to Enjoy Good Health
Health care hits close to home for Janet Msinda, a USCRI North Carolina case manager who has been with USCRI since 2016. When Janet was 8 years old and living with her family in Kenya, she almost died from a water borne disease. “The doctor taught my mom how to prevent us from getting sick. […]
Cameroon TPS Toolkit – U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Help USCRI Advocate to Designate Cameroon for Temporary Protected Status! What is Temporary Protected Status? Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, is a temporary immigration protection that allows people from a designated country to remain in the United States while conditions in their home country make safe return impossible. The Secretary of Homeland Security can designate […]
End Title 42 Now
Your voice matters. To learn more about Title 42 and why we should end it, click here. To take action, copy and paste the email template below or amplify our message on social media using the sample Tweets below. Dear ________________, I am one of your constituents and I urge you to call on the […]
Statement of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants on the 70th Anniversary of the Refugee Convention
On today’s 70th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention, USCRI reflects on the progress made over the past 70 years in the rights of refugees. In the aftermath of World War II, states came together to define who a refugee is and to lay out refugees’ fundamental human rights and the world’s obligation to ensure […]
