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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 ...
Congress passed the Refugee Act of 1980, which standardized the resettlement services of all refugees in the U.S. According to the Act, the objectives of refugee resettlement are "to provide a permanent and systemic procedure for the admission to this country of refugees of special humanitarian concern to the United States, and to provide ...
Directly related to the issue of discrimination was the recent passage of the Refugee Act of 1980, an amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act that was introduced to the Senate by Senator Ted Kennedy and signed by President Jimmy Carter. Among other goals, the stated purpose of the amendment ...
Because the majority of Afghan Americans were originally admitted as refugees under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, the government provided various forms of assistance and selected their city of residence. [ 65 ] [ 12 ] [ 11 ] [ 15 ] Some [ quantify ] decided to move to other cities that had larger Afghan communities but most remained in the cities where ...
Since the Refugee Act was passed in 1980 the U.S. has admitted a little over 3 million refugees. The Welcome Corps program comes on the heels of a similar, ...
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The Biden administration plans to maintain refugee admissions to the United States at 125,000, according to a draft report obtained by CNN, and admit a larger share of refugees from the Western ...
The 1980 Federal Refugee Act enabled the US Public Health Service to facilitate health screenings for all immigrants and refugees before they depart their country of origin. [3] The screening effort is overseen by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), housed in and funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).