Pope washes feet of "refugees"
USA Refugee Admissions Reception & Placement Program
USA Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
Washington, DC
[Note: A more recent version of this document can be found at http://www.state.gov/j/prm/releases/...016/251849.htm.]
Each refugee approved for admission to the United States is sponsored by one of nine resettlement agencies participating in the Reception & Placement (R&P) Program under a cooperative agreement with the Department of State. The sponsoring agency is responsible for placing refugees with one of its affiliated offices and for providing initial services, which include housing, essential furnishings, food, clothing, orientation, and assistance with access to other social, medical, and employment services for the refugees’ first 30-90 days in the United States. The R&P Program is a public-private partnership, which anticipates that sponsoring agencies will contribute significant cash and/or in-kind resources to supplement U.S. Government funding for the program.
Although refugees are eligible for public assistance when they first arrive, the U.S. Government emphasizes early economic self-sufficiency through employment to speed their integration into American society. During the refugees’ initial transition period, programs funded by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement and administered either by the states or resettlement agencies provide cash and medical assistance, employment services, English language training, and other support services.
Refugees are admitted to the United States by the Department of Homeland Security. After twelve months of residency, individuals admitted as refugees are required to apply for adjustment of status to that of permanent resident alien. After five years in the United States, they may apply for citizenship. The agencies participating in the R&P Program in fiscal year 2014 are:
Church World Service
Episcopal Migration Ministries
Ethiopian Community Development Council
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
International Rescue Committee
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
A US religious campaign supporting Central American refugees, the Sanctuary Movement, said it would offer its congregations' churches to families facing deportation from the United States, ahead of a planned government crackdown on illegal immigrants.
"We open our doors to today's Josephs and Marys... The gift we have to offer on Christmas Day is the gift of sanctuary," pastor of Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona, the Rev. Alison Harrington said, as quoted by Reuters.
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Congregations supporting the sanctuary network include about 300 parishes in more than 20 states, according to a coordinator for the affiliated Church World Service, the Rev. Noel Anderson.
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