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  2. Office of Refugee Resettlement - Wikipedia

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    The Office of Refugee Resettlement ( ORR) is a program of the Administration for Children and Families, an office within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, created with the passing of the United States Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212). The Office of Refugee Resettlement offers support for refugees seeking safe ...

  3. Third country resettlement - Wikipedia

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    Third country resettlement. Third country resettlement or refugee resettlement is, according to the UNHCR, one of three durable solutions ( voluntary repatriation and local integration being the other two) for refugees who fled their home country. Resettled refugees have the right to reside long-term or permanently in the country of ...

  4. Administration for Children and Families - Wikipedia

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    The Administration for Children and Families ( ACF) is a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It is headed by the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Children and Families. [ 1] It has a $49 billion budget for 60 programs that target children, youth and families. [ 2]

  5. More than 230 Afghan refugee children are alone in the U.S ...

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    More than 230 Afghan children are alone in the U.S. while their parents or caregivers remain in Afghanistan, according to figures from the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

  6. Migrant children were put in abusive shelters for years, suit ...

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    Southwest Key, which operates under grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Office of Refugee Resettlement, has 29 child migrant shelters — 17 in Texas, 10 in ...

  7. Biden administration considers raising refugee ceiling in ...

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    The refugee ceiling dictates how many refugees can be admitted to the US, but the administration doesn’t have to hit that number. Last year, Biden set the number at 125,000.

  8. Refugee Act - Wikipedia

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    The United States Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212) is an amendment to the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, and was created to provide a permanent and systematic procedure for the admission to the United States of refugees of special humanitarian concern to the U.S., and to provide comprehensive and uniform provisions ...

  9. Asylum in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The URM program is coordinated by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), a branch of the United States Administration for Children and Families. The mission of the URM program is to help people in need "develop appropriate skills to enter adulthood and to achieve social self-sufficiency."