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.
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Two of Oklahoma’s seven resettlement offices will be unable to welcome 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 this fall. Catholic Charities of Oklahoma City and Catholic Charities Eastern Oklahoma are two of those offices.
Donating to these offices can help position this office to resume resettlement should the federal landscape change.
To change the federal landscape, contact your representatives.
Oklahoma deserves a Refugee Program it can rely on.
Refugees do too.
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