Current Events

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.

#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.

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

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.

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.

Neighbors for Refugees is determined to welcome and support refugee families – both those soon-to-arrive and those who are already members of our communities – no matter what happens under the new Trump administration. Neighbors’ financial and volunteer support helps refugee families meet their many (and likely increasing) challenges: housing, food, learning English, employment, school enrollment, tutoring, navigating the health system, and the like.

As you can imagine, for anyone deeply involved in welcoming refugees to our country, we were surprised and saddened by the election results on November 5th. The incoming administration has expressed hostility to foreigners, and we expect the pipeline for entry into the U.S. for refugees will be severely curtailed, if not almost closed completely.