Neighbors News

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.

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.”

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.

Over the past three years, Neighbors for Refugees has provided approximately $750,000 of assistance to new refugee families and families who are already in the U.S through our resettlement program and grants. In total, we’ve helped approximately 360 families (over 1,100 individuals).

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.