On Monday January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order indefinitely stopping resettlement of refugees in the United States through the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). Within a few days, the Departments of State, Homeland Security, and Health and Human services suspended all USRAP processing and refugee-related funding, including to non-profit, non-governmental resettlement agencies.…
U.S. Travel Ban Is Inhumane and Discriminatory
This new policy is cruel, inconsistent, and nonsensical – and that is indeed the point. This is not a policy that protects America, it is a policy of bigotry masked in legalese.
Refugees International Calls on Congress to Reject Rescissions Package
Statement from Refugees International President Jeremy Konyndyk: This package will have no meaningful impact on the federal deficit, but it will have a dramatically damaging impact on humanitarian crises around the world. We urge all members of Congress to preserve lifesaving programs and maintain U.S. humanitarian leadership by rejecting this reckless proposal.” For more information…
Refugees International Condemns SCOTUS Rulings That Strip Hundreds of Thousands of People of Humanitarian Status, Exposing Them to Detention and Deportation to Danger
The ruling strips them of their legal permission to live and work in the United States, exposing them to possible detention and deportation.
Rapid U.S. Policy Shifts Threaten Humanitarian Protections for Migrants in Costa Rica, New Report Warns
Rapid and problematic shifts in U.S. policy under the Trump administration are undermining critical humanitarian protections for migrants and asylum seekers throughout the Americas—with severe consequences for Costa Rica.
New Report Reveals Rampant Abuse and Enforced Disappearances of Asylum Seekers in CBP Custody, Illegal Expulsions, and Refoulement
A new report reveals systemic and grave human rights abuses by the Trump administration against asylum seekers in CBP custody.
“This is an Order from Trump:” Abuse, Expulsions, and Refoulement of People Seeking Asylum
Instead of protecting people seeking asylum, U.S. officials whisked them away in an attempt to place them beyond U.S. law and courts.
The Impacts of USAID Cuts: Less Climate Resilience, More Forced Displacement
Cuts to aid programs will have a compounding effect: creating less climate resilience in frontline communities and exacerbating unsafe situations that force people to become refugees.
Refugees International Condemns Trump Admin’s Move to Terminate Parole, Work Authorization for Hundreds of Thousands of People Who Entered the United States through CBP One
This is a cruel and brazen continuation of the Trump administration’s assault on immigrants writ-large – no matter how they entered the country.
Setting the Record Straight on CHNV
Dr. Yael Schacher provides an overview of the history of the CHNV program and where it stands now.