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.
On October 30, 2025, the administration announced a refugee admissions ceiling of just 7,500 for FY 2026 - the lowest in U.S. history. For Texas, long the nation’s leader in welcoming refugees, that number represents not only a policy failure, but a moral and economic...
Six out of Texas’s twenty 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 and Episcopal Migration Ministries to withdraw from the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. Together, these two resettlement agencies oversee 78 of the U.S.’s 360 resettlement offices.
Six of those agencies resettled refugees in Texas.
Donating to these offices can help position these agencies to resume resettlement should the federal landscape change.
To change the federal landscape, contact your representatives.
Texans deserve a resettlement program it can rely on.
Refugees do too.