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Hi, I have a small ask for a local refugee support organization. Can you please go to this poll, select Blacksburg Refugee Partnership, and click Vote? They're competing with other nonprofits for a badly needed grant. You can vote once a day through October. The group is 100% volunteer, so everything goes to meet refugee families' needs. Please share. Thanks!
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https://poll-maker.com/poll5285297x48F3c577-159
Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede.
Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usaid-malawi-state-department-crime-sexual-violence-trafficking?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
ICE Enforcement Official Tapped to Lead Unaccompanied Migrant Children Office, Triggering Alarms
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ICE official Mellissa Harper has been tapped to lead the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Her hire has concerned experts and advocates that information about children and their families could be shared for arrests and deportations.
#News #ICE #Immigration #Refugees #Children #Goverment #Trump
At least 200 Afghan Americans in the U.S. military have relatives who applied for refugee status only to be blocked by Trump’s refugee ban.
“We serve this country because it protected us, but now it is abandoning my sister,” said one soldier.
New today: Despite warnings from advocates like me about the dire consequences, Congressional #Republicans have sought to dismantle core legal protections for detained immigrant #children fund strip searches of children as young as 12 years old by law enforcement officers, allow indefinite detention, and impose new barriers to children’s release. https://www.texasobserver.org/republicans-immigrant-children-budget-court/
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Two Months After Trump’s Funding Cuts, a Nonprofit Struggles to Support Refugees and Itself
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After the Trump administration cut its funding, a Nashville nonprofit is fighting to provide refugees with the support it promised, despite contending with depleted resources, layoffs and disillusionment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/refugees-funding-cuts-nashville?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post