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These proposed changes would disproportionately harm low-income immigrants by creating financial barriers to the progress of an immigrant’s integration in the U.S., delaying or even preventing status that is critical to safety, security and protection.

On the heels of news that the Trump Administration is considering resettling zero refugees next year, a new IRC report shows that America’s retreat from global leadership in refugee protection comes at a time of acute global crisis.

As the war in Ukraine escalated in 2022, Alisa had one priority: to protect her family by starting a life elsewhere.

Over 600 lives were lost after a ship capsized in the Mediterranean Sea on June 14, 2023. Find out why people seeking protection are forced to take a dangerous journey.

This policy brief recommends three ways policy makers around  the world can create a more robust and holistic humanitarian  response in Latin America along three axes: 1) regional harmonization  of migration and protection policies, 2) increased engagement of non-US donors to the humanitarian response plans, and  3) utilizing lessons learned from regional initiatives responding to humanitarian concerns in other parts of the world.  As donors and implementing partners consider how to operationalize the recommendations that will come out of the Summit of the Americas and the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, this brief outlines a way forward that could deliver a more coordinated humanitarian response in Latin America.

Education has the power to protect children and help them heal during a crisis, say IRC overseer Caroline Kennedy and senior education director Sarah Smith. But roughly half of Venezuelan refugee children in Colombia are not in school.

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