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.
By October of this year, Mississippi’s only refugee resettlement office—Catholic Charities of Jackson—will be unable to resettle refugees. The Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program has forced the U.S. Conference of Catholic...
Catholic Charities of Jackson, the only organization in Mississippi that resettles refugees, will be unable to resettle refugees this fall.
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 by October. Catholic Charities of Jackson is one of those offices.
Donating to Catholic Charities can help position the agency to resume resettlement should the federal landscape change.
To change the federal landscape, contact your representatives.
Mississippians deserves a Refugee Program they can rely on.
Refugees do too.