Tell your representatives to reclaim their role in refugee admissions and enshrine America’s commitment to refugees in law.
You can do what the federal government won’t: fund resettlement. Help a local office to keep their doors open and their lights on.
February 3, 2025 The GRACE Act can fight funding freezes. Here's what it would mean for Arkansas. The Arkansas Democratic Gazette reported that “Sixty-five people from among 25 families in Northwest Arkansas will not get assistance from the U.S. State Department...
Arkansas needs a refugee program it can rely on.
Today, Arkansas’s refugee program is at the mercy of presidential preference: the president decides how many refugees Arkansas can welcome–or if it can welcome refugees at all. As a result, Arkansas’s refugee program has ricocheted between booms and busts over the past decade–resettling between 0 and 559 refugees a year. No business can operate with this much uncertainty; neither can Arkansas’s refugee program.
Arkansas’s refugee program needs a bottom line.
Arkansas’s refugee program relies on resettlement offices and community sponsorship groups to welcome refugees. In January of 2025, Alabama hosted four refugee resettlement offices. Only of two of those offices remain able to resettle refugees. Declines in arrivals and federal funding have forced the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops–which oversees 60 of U.S.’s 360 resettlement offices–to withdraw from the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Catholic Charities of Arkansas is one of those offices.Community sponsorship has been discontinued in Alabama. Help keep the doors open and the lights on in Arkansas’s refugee program by donating to your local resettlement agency.
Arkansas needs a refugee admissions floor.
America’s Refugee Program is a national commitment, pledging freedom to the world’s persecuted, safety to our military allies, and prosperity to our children. Only the federal government can admit refugees and enshrine these American promises into law. Arkansas needs Congress to commit to welcoming a minimum number of refugees each year and build a refugee program that Arkansans–and refugees–can rely on.
Contact your representatives today.