Colorado & Infrastructure Collapse: Resettlement at Risk

by | Mar 17, 2025 | Colorado

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The costs of resettlement’s collapse need to be clear: dismantling resettlement’s overseas, domestic, and information infrastructure is not in the interests of the United States.

On the left is a map of America’s local resettlement offices as of December 2024, prior to the beginning of the second Trump Administration. Approximately 360 local offices support refugees as they rebuild their lives in the United States. Now facing existential resource constraints, some of these offices are already making the impossible decision to close.

This trend will only continue. On the right is a map of the local resettlement offices that remained at the end of the first Trump Administration.

This is what our resettlement program—and the resettlement infrastructure in our communities—may look like come 2028.

And it’s happening already in Colorado.

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