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Faith-based refugee resettlement agencies denounce new asylum rule
By Yonat Shimron and Alejandra Molina — May 11, 2023
(RNS) — The new rule, which goes into effect May 16, rejects asylum claims for most people who cross the border but do not first seek asylum in Mexico.
MacKenzie Scott gives $15 million to Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
By Jack Jenkins — November 14, 2022
It's the single largest donation in the organization's 83-year history.
How to help Ukrainians today: Organizations providing aid
By Andrea Klick — February 25, 2022
(RNS) — RNS has compiled a list of verified organizations — many of them religious or religiously affiliated — working to support Ukrainians right now.
HIAS pushes for bill to make Afghans eligible for permanent residency
By Yonat Shimron — February 7, 2022
(RNS) — The resettlement agency is calling on Congress to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act to allow some 36,000 Afghans living in the U.S. under humanitarian parole to apply for permanent residency.
Biden authorizes new refugee funds, fends off criticism from aid groups
By Jack Jenkins and Emily McFarlan Miller — August 17, 2021
(RNS) — Faith-based groups continued to pressure the White House to help U.S. allies and other vulnerable Afghans, including Christians and other religious minorities.
Refugee aid groups criticize Biden for stumbles in evacuating ‘desperate’ Afghans
By Emily McFarlan Miller and Jack Jenkins — August 16, 2021
(RNS) — Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, head of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, described President Biden's claim that Afghans did not want to leave the country as 'misleading at best.'
Faith groups press Biden to evacuate US-affiliated Afghans alongside troops
By Jack Jenkins — June 4, 2021
(RNS) — 'We view this as a ticking time bomb,' said one signer of the letter.
Faith-based agencies invite volunteers, donations as they care for children at border
By Emily McFarlan Miller and Jack Jenkins — April 2, 2021
(RNS) — Some struggle to cobble together resources decimated under the policies of former President Donald Trump’s administration.
ELCA leaders call on Congress to pass US Citizenship Act of 2021 in new letter
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 4, 2021
(RNS) — Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America threw their support behind what they called ‘fair and compassionate transformations to our nation’s broken immigration system.’
Faith-based groups cheer, share hopes for Biden’s family reunification task force
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 2, 2021
(RNS) — The White House announced the task force Tuesday morning (Feb. 2) as part of a number of immigration-related executive actions President Joe Biden was expected to take that day.
Court blocks Trump executive order allowing state and local officials to refuse refugees
By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 8, 2021
(RNS) — President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office in less than two weeks, has expressed support for rebuilding the U.S. refugee program.
Faith-based organizations express outrage over plan to cut refugee admissions to historic low — again
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 1, 2020
(RNS) — In recent weeks, several faith-based organizations involved in refugee resettlement had asked the Trump administration to raise that number to its historic average: 95,000.
Lutherans ask Trump administration to admit more refugees as deadline looms
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 28, 2020
(RNS) — Clergy in the US largest Lutheran denomination are asking the administration to admit at least 95,000 in the 2021 fiscal year, which begins in October.
Federal judge blocks executive order on refugees in lawsuit by three faith-based organizations
By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 15, 2020
(RNS) — The preliminary injunction is part of HIAS v. Trump, a lawsuit by three faith-based organizations against the US government over the order.
Most states agree to admit refugees as judge hears lawsuit to stop resettlement order
By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 8, 2020
(RNS) — A federal judge heard arguments Wednesday (Jan. 8) in the lawsuit by three faith-based organizations against the federal government over a recent executive order allowing state and local officials to block refugee resettlement.
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