With a decimated refugee support system, efforts to integrate Afghan evacuees in the US face an uphill struggle.
Source: Why some Afghan evacuees are still in US bases six months on, The New Humanitarian, by Thomas Nocera, 9 February 2022
ON MIGRATION | New model to enlist regular Americans to resettle refugees
Since the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Kabul last year, the Sponsor Circle Program for Afghans has helped over 600 Afghans restart their lives. The Biden administration is preparing to turn the experiment into a private-sponsorship program for refugees admitted through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program and is asking organizations [and individuals] to team up with it to launch a pilot program by the end of 2022.
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