Refugee resettlement flights canceled after Utah groups lose federal funding

With federal funding set to end in October, refugees in Austin will be left to navigate on their own

Nonprofits help refugees pay for rent and groceries, land jobs, sign up for medical benefits and enroll in school. The end of federal funding could mean these services disappear.

Utah refugee resettlement program stops amid funding gaps, seeks community help

What services does Catholic Community Services provide refugees? How many refugees come to the U.S. each year? How many refugees in Utah?

Migrant support center reeling from funding cuts, recent fire threatens operations

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — A nonprofit that focuses on helping refugees and migrants in an Aurora community may have to cut some of its operations because of significant funding cuts. To add to that challenge police are also investigating a dumpster fire that was set just feet away from their building. At least 9 international student visas revoked at Colorado universities Marcel Narucki, cofounder of the Village Exchange Center, said for the …

Catholic Community Services ending aid to refugees, immigrant children due to funding cuts

Catholic Community Services of Utah is halting assistance programs for refugees and unaccompanied immigrant children due to federal funding cuts under President Trump.

Refugee resettlement flights canceled after Utah groups lose federal funding

Aden Batar understands the weight of leaving behind all that youve ever known.Its not easy to leave your home country and to go to a strange country, Batar shared Tuesday.Currently the Director of Migration and Refugee Services for Catholic Community Services, Batar and his family fled Somalia during civil war in the early 90s to seek a new life in Utah.I never thought I was going to leave my home country, but due to the loss of family members a…

Every day, children sit with their legs hanging on chairs in front of immigration judges, so they read the first lines of the lawsuit filed last week by various immigration legal aid groups across the country, including two from the Bay Area. This after last month, the Trump administration cancelled the contracts of these groups that financed the representation of some 26,000 immigrant children, some children of months of birth, who were separat…