This USCRI Backgrounder outlines the roles, responsibilities, and challenges of case management within the shelter network for unaccompanied children (UCs) coordinated by the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). Reunification with a family is the primary goal. The primary tasks of case managers are (1) to establish contact with the child’s parent(s) and to identify […]
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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 […]
USCRI Snapshot on Historical Precedent of Discriminatory U.S. Immigration Policy Toward Haitians
Earlier this year, the Biden administration redesignated Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which grants deportation immunity to immigrants already in the United States who are unable to return to their home country due to natural disaster or extreme political upheaval. In a Federal Register notice published on August 3rd, 2021, the Department of Homeland […]
Statement of USCRI on the Current Administration’s Expulsion Flights to Haiti
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) strongly condemns the current administration’s move to expel and push back thousands of Haitian migrants from U.S. borders. Haiti is experiencing extraordinary turmoil and danger, as the administration just recently acknowledged through its grant of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians already residing in the United States. According […]
Statement of USCRI on the Recent Parliamentarian Ruling
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) is dismayed with the Senate Parliamentarian’s decision yesterday that a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, TPS holders, and DREAMers should not be included in the reconciliation bill. The Parliamentarian, who is the non-partisan arbiter of Senate rules, found that the impact of the proposed policy change […]
Statement by USCRI on the Injunction Against Application of Title 42 for Family Units
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) celebrates the ruling of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, granting an injunction against the application of Title 42 to expel family units from the United States without a chance to seek asylum. The court in Huisha-Huisha v. Mayorkas found that Title 42 does […]
Bipartisan Efforts to Assist Afghan Humanitarian Parolees
USCRI commends Congressmen Seth Moulton (D-MA) and Don Bacon (R-NE) for proposing essential, bipartisan legislation that would provide necessary assistance to Afghan refugees arriving under “humanitarian parole” following the fall of the elected Afghan government and the Taliban takeover of the country. The current parole designation for Afghans arriving to safety in the U.S. allows […]
USCRI Urges the Current Administration to Continue Evacuations from Afghanistan
August 24, 2021 Arlington, VA– This very moment, tens of thousands of Afghans are desperately trying to flee the fundamentalist and oppressive rule of the Taliban, and resettle in the United States. Yet, the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, particularly in the capital city of Kabul, has made it extremely challenging for any American-affiliated or […]
Not a Numbers Game: Human Faces of the Crisis in Afghanistan
Many of us have been shaken by recent news of the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. As news outlets report staggering numbers of people in danger, it can be easy to decontextualize those large figures from the humans they reflect. USCRI, and other refugee resettlement agencies and human rights organizations across the United States, have received […]
Afghan Mother Pleads for her Children’s Safety
Suneeta, an Afghan woman living as a lawful permanent resident in Albany, New York, has four children who live in Kabul, Afghanistan, aged seventeen, fifteen, nine, and seven. Suneeta’s husband, the father of her children, worked with the U.S. Military as an interpreter and Team Leader with the security forces at Camp Eggers. He disappeared […]
