The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) strongly condemns the plan by the United Kingdom’s government to relocate asylum seekers from the U.K. to Rwanda. The government recently announced that the first deportation flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda is set for June 14, 2022. While this may be blocked by legal challenges, the […]
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Fact Sheet – Documentation and Benefit Eligibility for Ukrainians
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the number of Ukrainians seeking safety in the United States has rapidly risen. This fact sheet outlines the three main legal pathways and their corresponding benefit eligibility, that Ukrainians are utilizing in the United States. These include 1) Temporary Protected Status (TPS); 2) Humanitarian Parole and […]
USCRI Policy Brief – A Spotlight on Family Reunification: the Central American Minors (CAM) Program
The CAM Program was created under the Obama administration in 2014 as a response to a rise in unaccompanied children arriving to the U.S.-Mexico border. As a family reunification tool, the CAM Program allows children who are living in dangerous conditions in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador to travel to the United States as either […]
USCRI Statement on Authorization of Refugee Benefits for Ukrainians
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) welcomes the recent passage by the U.S. Congress of a supplemental spending bill that, among other things, authorizes refugee benefits for Ukrainian parolees. Ukrainians who were paroled into the country between February 24, 2022, and September 30, 2023, will generally be eligible for benefits to the same [...]
Webinar: Former Unaccompanied Children and Their Stories of Resilience
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) and The Children’s Village hosted a virtual panel on April 19, 2022 as part of the Where We Stand: A 20-Year Retrospective of the Unaccompanied Children’s Program in the United States. Moderated by USCRI Vice President AnnaMarie Bena and Policy Analyst Jenny Rodriguez, the panel featured three […]
USCRI Commends the Current Administration for Ending Title 42
Today, the Current Administration announced the end of the use of Title 42, an obscure provision of public health law that allowed border officials to rapidly expel asylum seekers and migrants to Mexico or their home countries with no due process. The policy was originally implemented in March 2020 under the Trump Administration. The end […]
Policy Brief: Strategic Communications for Unaccompanied Children
The past five years have seen numerous communications challenges for unaccompanied children’s providers and advocates, along with substantial threats to the well-being of unaccompanied children (UC) themselves. In 2018, under the previous Administration, shelters were targeted as sites of protest during the height of the Family Separation policy. More recently, 2021 and into 2022 have […]
USCRI Commends the U.S. for Formally Recognizing Rohingya Genocide
On March 21, 2022, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the formal determination that the Myanmar military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against ethnic Rohingya Muslims. In his speech at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Blinken acknowledged the nearly one million Rohingya that have been forced to seek refuge in […]
USCRI Welcomes Afghanistan TPS Designation, Urges Congress to Pass an Afghan Adjustment Act
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) welcomes the Biden Administration’s designation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Afghanistan. However, TPS is only a short-term solution, and Afghan evacuees must have a pathway to lawful permanent residency through an Afghan Adjustment Act. “While it is encouraging to see the Administration granting TPS for Afghanistan, […]
The Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) Timeline
USCRI Snapshot: The Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) policy, also referred to as Remain in Mexico, is a program that was originally implemented by the Trump administration in 2019. The program requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while their asylum cases are pending in U.S. immigration courts. The policy has had grave effects on the […]
