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ORR grant money to help refugees in Waterloo/Cedar Rapids, Iowa

A year-and-a-half after refugees from Myanmar faced a serious lack of assistance in Waterloo after migrating to the area for jobs, the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement is now channeling funds to… more →

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ORR grant money to help refugees in Waterloo/Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Christopher Coen wrote 6 months ago: A year-and-a-half after refugees from Myanmar faced a serious lack of assistance in Waterloo after m … more →

Tags: Burma/Myanmar, language, Meatpacking Industry, ORR, Poultry Production, secondary migration, refugee, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Burma

International Institute of New Jersey closes down — 1 comment

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: It was just three weeks ago that a newspaper article featured the International Institute of New Jer … more →

Tags: New Jersey, USCRI, Refugees, Resettlement, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, International Institute of New Jersey, jersey city

Bowling Green International Center – Matching Grant Program inspection

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: In late 2009 and early 2010 a volunteer assisting refugees at the Bowling Green International Center … more →

Tags: Bowling Green, Children, employment services, employment/jobs for refugees, International Center in Bowling Green (Western Kentucky, Karenni, Matching Grant program, ORR, government contractor

Fired immigrant employees sue JVS of Kansas City – claim agency scapegoated them — 2 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: Almost two years now after the Kansas City Star – and the Pitch a year earlier – published accounts … more →

Tags: faith-based, household items, missing or broken, housing, housing, substandard, Jewish, Jewish Vocational Services, Kansas City, kenyen, Medical Care

Volunteer gives a thumb down to USCRI Albany

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: According to Peter Huston who volunteered at the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) in … more →

Tags: Albany, employment services, karen, Karenni, State Department, USCRI Albany, Volunteers, Karenni, lavinia limon

USCRI says moratorium in Manchester makes no sense – refugees are "family reunion" cases

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: Lavinia Limon, the head of the USCRI national refugee resettlement agency, says that the moratorium … more →

Tags: State Department, Nepali Bhutanese, New Hampshire, International Institute of NE, housing, substandard, International Institute of New Hampshire, schools, Children, moratorium / restriction / reduction

Waterloo, Iowa site of secondary migration as refugees from Burma seek meat-packing jobs — 2 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: Iowa has become a secondary migration site for about 1000 refugees from Burma, according to John Wil … more →

Tags: Burma/Myanmar, Catholic Charities Diocese of Des Moines, Columbus Junction, Des Moines USCRI (field office), employment abuses, health, Iowa, Marshalltown, Meatpacking Industry

USCRI having failed refugees & taxpayers in many states, opens new offices in others

Christopher Coen wrote 1 year ago: USCRI office in Dillon, SC Watch out Dillon, South Carolina. The USCRI has come to town, and oh, wha … more →

Tags: Burundian, neglect, Meatpacking Industry, South Carolina, USCRI, Refugee, Resettlement, Refugee Resettlement Program, refugee resettlement

Des Moines USCRI field office helps first refugee clients

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: A Zimbabwean refugee woman’s children are the first refugees to be resettled by the new USCRI … more →

Tags: State Department, neglect, Iowa, Des Moines USCRI (field office), Des Moines, office of admissions, Zimbabwean, USCRI, Refugees

YMCA International Services' depth of refugee neglect & contract-cheating revealed in new inspection report — 3 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: The State Department finally released another inspection report of YMCA International Services, a Ho … more →

Tags: beds, Burma/Myanmar, Burundian, Clothes, community/cultural orientation, cuban, dangerous neighborhoods, food, furnishings, lack of

How much funding do resettlement agencies contribute to the refugee program?

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: Lavia Limon, President and chief executive of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (and fo … more →

Tags: LIRS, Funding, revolving door, USCRI, NSC, Refugees, National Security Council, Resettlement, Lutheran immigration and refugee services

No low-income housing for refugees in Palm Beach County, FL -- blame game ensues — 2 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: An article in the Palm Beach Post chronicles the state of refugee resettlement in Palm Beach County, … more →

Tags: State Department, Iraqi, Florida, Youth Co-op, Inc., Palm Beach County, USCRI, Refugees, Resettlement, Refugee Resettlement Program

International Institute of Lowell - USCRI once again caught violating their contracts and cheating refugees — 2 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) has once again been caught short-changing ref … more →

Tags: Clothes, Cooperative Agreement, household items, missing or broken, International Institute of Lowell, Iraqi, Lowell, Massachusetts, Operational Guidance, State Department

U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants to open office in Iowa

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), formerly known as IRSA, or Immigration and R … more →

Tags: Iowa, Des Moines USCRI (field office), Des Moines, USCRI, State Department, Refugee Resettlement Program, refugee resettlement, refugee resettlement agencies, lavinia limon

Long Wait for Refugee Health Care in City of Brotherly Love

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: An article in WHYY News and Information gives more information about the welcome that newly arrived … more →

Tags: Burma/Myanmar, Eritrean, health, Iraqi, late health screenings, Mental Health, Nationalities Service Center, Nepali Bhutanese, Philadelphia

USCRI's Bowling Green International Center claims they do a great job, refugees disagree — 12 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: An article in the Bowling Green Daily-News comments on local refugee resettlement and Senator Lugar … more →

Tags: Kentucky, Burma/Myanmar, Karenni, health, International Center in Bowling Green (Western Kentucky, Catholic, Transportation, housing, substandard, household items, missing or broken

USCRI affiliate, CSI Refugee Center in Idaho, asks what the government can do for them — 2 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: The College of Southern Idaho Refugee Center has a list of issues for what the government should do … more →

Tags: CSI Refugee Center (Idaho), employment/jobs for refugees, ESL & ELL, Funding, Idaho, Matching Grant program, Nepali Bhutanese, NSC (National Security Council), Obama Administration

USCRI's International Institute of Erie in "partial compliance" with State Department refugee services contract — 2 comments

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: In the latest monitoring report from the State Department evaluating the USCRI’s International … more →

Tags: Burma/Myanmar, Burundian, employment services, Erie Pennsylvania, furnishings, lack of, household items, missing or broken, housing, substandard, International Institute of Erie, Iraqi

USCRI strikes again -- this time at Raleigh field office

Christopher Coen wrote 2 years ago: The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) has done it again. YET ANOTHER one of their o … more →

Tags: State Department, ORR, Cooperative Agreement, North Carolina, Burma/Myanmar, Montagnard/Degar (indigenous mountain people), employment services, Churches, neglect


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