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.
What a sixty-percent decrease in refugee arrivals means for Nebraska—and how we can ensure it never happens again. Nebraska Needs a Resettlement Floor Only six months into the second Trump Administration, Nebraska’s Refugee Program faces a shrinking number of...
For the first six months of 2025, Nebraska has only resettled 285 refugees. For this same period last year, Nebraska resettled 865 refugees—a nearly 60% decrease. Most were likely welcomed to Nebraska before President Trump took office. Declines in refugee arrivals over the next four years will permanently damage Nebraska’s resettlement program.
One of Nebraska’s resettlement offices will be unable to resettle refugees next year. 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. As a result, Catholic Social Services of Southern Nebraska will be unable to resettle refugees next year.
Donating to Catholic Social Services of Southern Nebraska can help position this office to resume resettlement should the federal landscape change.
To change the federal landscape, contact your representatives.
Nebraskans deserves a Refugee Program they can rely on.
Refugees do too.