States across the U.S. are taking steps to prepare for an increase of refugee arrivals after President Biden set a goal in May to admit 125,000 refugees into the U.S. next fiscal year.
“With renewed interest in refugee resettlement coming from the top of the federal government, North Dakota officials and nonprofit workers anticipate the state will take in about five times as many refugees in the next federal fiscal year as it has this year,” reports Jeremy Turley in the Grand Forks Herald newspaper.
In Connecticut, the need to help refugees coming to the state has grown, notes Mary O’Leary in a New Haven Register article.
“Integrated Refugees and Immigrant Services hopes to welcome close to 250 refugees to Greater New Haven this year and in 2022, as well as 100 refugees for settlement in Greater Hartford with 50 to be supported throughout the state with the help of private groups, usually organized by religious organizations,” writes O’Leary in the article.
In the Midwest, Wisconsin refugee agencies “expect to welcome more refugees into the state in the coming months and years, many likely from Myanmar, as President Joe Biden’s administration lifts restrictive policies on refugee admissions put in place under his predecessor,” reports Sarah Volpenhein in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The Immigration and Refugee News Digest 