We get it. Every day there’s a new story, a new article, or a new shocking discovery about policies harming immigration programs, resettlement efforts, and our broader communities.
Just this week, another resettlement agency—Episcopal Migration Ministries—announced they would be ending their resettlement program by the end of the fiscal year. This means, with USCCB announcing the end of their resettlement program last month, two of the nation’s eight resettlement agencies will not survive the first year of Trump’s second administration—so far.
Only a few days ago, while others have waited in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years, Afrikaner refugees were resettled to the U.S. in—as the Episcopal Migration Ministries wrote in their statement announcing the end of their resettlement program—“a highly unusual manner.”
Amidst today’s chaos and inequity, it’s hard to feel hopeful. But we can’t give up. We owe each other—refugees, case workers, employers, faith leaders, neighbors—more.
Only a statutory resettlement floor can assure our national identity as a place of refuge for the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
We can learn lessons about working together to pass The GRACE Act—and delivering what we owe each other—from Maine.
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