New American refugee services stop

The Trump administration made a harsh decision and reverse results on refugees.

In addition to just suspending the acceptance of refugees in the future through the resettlement program, the administration issued a memorandum on January 24 to resettlement agencies to end services to its refugee agents already in societies throughout the United States

This decision is not limited to the recent deprivation of refugees of the cash support that promised them when they boarded a plane heading to resettlement destinations throughout America, but it stops services that are decisive to ensure the work of refugees early, housing and asset security for medical care and school registration.

If this decision continues, more than 27,000 refugees have been resettled in the United States since October 1 may soon face unemployment and homelessness without supporting professionals who know how to guide them.

These are not from the illegal borders. These refugees have already been chosen to come to America, and they are considered at risk in particular and need to be resettled by both the United Nations Refugees and the US government. It includes the only fathers, children with disabilities and people who lived for years amid difficult circumstances in refugee camps and urban areas. They have no other place to go.

Once their cases are approved, after a long and strict security examination, refugees are appointed to a local resettlement agency equipped with professionals who provide 90 days of critical social service support. Service providers believe these housing, adults in English classes and children at school, and help adults to gain work for a period of 90 days. Their contracted work with them is a federal driven by the double goals of early labor and economic independence.

The decision to end the remaining support for qualified refugees is not only harsh but short -sighted. The Trump administration ends the same services designed to obtain self -sufficiency for refugees economically within months. Refugees in societies throughout the United States will be deprived of the experience of resettlement agency employees, who know how to settle and employ them quickly, all in an expected budget.

Preventing access to this basic resource no one. More than 27,000 refugees are still placed within this 90 -day window of services in an incomprehensible position and may threaten life.

Refugee resettlement program has not been designed to know things themselves. For many who arrive, the decision to where they go has already taken for them. They went out of the plane without any network in advance in their community or their local knowledge of their surroundings. The resettlement specialist in the resettlement agency who received them at the airport may be the only person they know in this country.

While ending future acceptance is inconsistent with the human commitment to America for a long time with refugees, stopping services for those who are already cutting here a flammable line for refugees who simply try to get their foot. This taste and switch will carry severe consequences, both for refugees and societies charged with welcoming them.

Dr. Molly Faculty is a post -PhD Research Felosa at Nouvield College, Oxford University. In this fall, a assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Sciences will be multi -disciplinary at the University of South Florida.