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The current administration continues its assault on immigrants and refugees. The most recent legislation, affectionately called the “Big Beautiful Bill” (BBB) by Republicans, is anything but beautiful for families who will be stripped of food assistance (food stamps or SNAP) and healthcare (Medicaid and CHIP).

The Department of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it will allow Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to lapse for...

Photo credit: Prayitno via Wikimedia The latest Trump travel ban has gone into effect, with citizens from 12 countries barred from...

Supreme Court has now paved the way for the Trump administration to remove temporary legal protections for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

The Supreme Court has ruled that it will allow the Trump administration end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for Venezuelan...

The Trump administration's fast-tracking of refugee status for white Afrikaners is garnering criticism from refugee resettlement...

Some Afghan refugees who had legally resettled in the U.S. have received emails from the Department of Homeland Security urging them to...

Judge rules U.S. must process 12,000 refugees who were conditionally approved for resettlement prior to January 20, 2025.

Read our 2024 Annual Report and check out some of the key successes in our year of refugee resettlement services and support for refugee families.

#AfghanEvac called onn national security leadership officials to take immediate action to protect the future of Enduring Welcome, the U.S. government’s program to provide refugee resettlement for Afghan wartime allies.

Working in partnership with HIAS, NFR resettled a family of four refugees from Nicaragua. They arrived (after a year in Costa Rica) in...

An article in The Examiner News by Adam Stone reports: A coalition of Westchester community leaders and refugee support organizations, including Open Arms for Refugees, gathered to condemn a recent DHS letter urging legal asylum seekers to “self-deport.”

Refugee resettlement organizations speak out against this decision.  Refugee resettlement organizations have come out publicly after the...

Westchester residents protest treatment of refugees and immigrants

Working hard to resettle new refugee families, especially Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) holders; grants for legal defense and childcare support; stepped-up employment assistance.

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an order suspending a 45-year-old program that created a legal immigration path for refugees from danger spots around the globe. That and later administration actions have thrown into limbo the fates of thousands who had been cleared to come to the U.S. and were set to travel when the abrupt policy shift in Washington upended their plans.

In spite of recent changes in Washington, Neighbors for Refugees is busy helping legal refugees to the U.S. from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Nicaragua, and other countries. We are fulfilling our mission to help our new neighbors become self-supporting and fully contributing members of our community.

This is the extraordinary story of Lima, Nopal, and their family, who were resettled in Pelham, New York through Neighbors for Refugees. Through Neighbors, this refugee family was able to be resettled in New York.

Trump’s First Days — What Happened and How to Fight Back

We had hoped that Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric was meant only for the campaign. What we’ve seen in the first week of this new administration has been much worse and swifter than we had anticipated.