MARCH 17, 2025

Hope requires long-term planning. Here’s how we can build the future we want tomorrow, today.

When we talk to people about The GRACE Act, we often hear the same response: “Get serious. Today’s Congress would never even consider—much less pass—The GRACE Act. “

We’ve said this from the very beginning: We agree.

We know that the incentives for action must outweigh the incentives for inaction—and that, right now—they don’t.

But we cannot afford to think in terms of the Trump Administration’s timelines.

Ours is a cause that is not bound by the tests of time, but transcends them.

We must start thinking longer-term if we want to build a Refugee Program that lasts.

Today, we’ll talk about what the next ten years of resettlement advocacy could look like. We’ll learn how to pass The GRACE Act by looking at how champions passed The Refugee Act—even in a Congress where not a single hearing on immigration reform was held for over ten years. Then, we’ll look at how those lessons are being adapted to today’s political climate in Georgia—and what it means for our efforts to pass The GRACE Act.

Read the full article here.