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The president has halted programs and funding for agencies that serve a heavily vetted and vulnerable population.
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Many programs administered by Interfaith works receive discretionary federal funding that's now under increased scrutiny by the Trump administration.
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Syracuse-based Refugee and Immigrant Self-Empowerment has been approved to resettle 50 people from Afghanistan by the federal Afghan Placement and Assistance Program. Some could be those who helped the US military as translators or contractors, and are now threatened to be in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Community is being asked to welcome and support them..
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Syracuse’s refugee resettlement agencies say they’re ready to take in evacuees from Afghanistan who make their way here after escaping the grip of the Taliban. A pair of deadly explosions at and near the airport in Kabul today made the situation that much more dire.
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Interfaith Works of Central New York is preparing for a return to a more open-minded approach to refugee resettlement under the incoming Biden…
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All Central New Yorkers are trying to cope with the risk and restrictions posed by COVID-19 and how to stay healthy. But the area’s newer refugees might…
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Resettlement agencies in Syracuse continue to adjust to the significant drop in refugees nearly three years after president Trump’s executive orders…
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A group of upstate lawmakers are asking the state to step in and fund refugee resettlement programs, that they say have been caught up in President…