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Heartland Alliance. Heartland Alliance is an anti-poverty organization based in Chicago, with a historical focus on serving American immigrant communities. Heartland Alliance devotes the bulk of its funding to initiatives that address poverty through health and housing, with further programs centered on jobs, justice, and international work. [1]
In Chicago, there is an additional $4 million available from the Chicago Department of Housing’s emergency rental assistance funds for rental assistance and case management for migrants in the city.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.
USCRI traces its history back to 1911 with the founding of the early International Institutes and Travelers’ Aid societies. The early 1900s was a time of incredible growth for the immigrant population of the United States, by 1910, three-quarters of New York City’s population was either an immigrant or a first generation American. This increase in the immigrant population, as well as increa
Estimates suggest as of 2010 there are approximately 11.2 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, some of whom have U.S. citizen family members. This has resulted in a number of "mixed status" families concentrated in states such as California, Florida, New York and Texas, as well as newer immigrant destination states such as Illinois and Georgia.
The Biden administration said on Friday it had temporarily put on hold a program that allows citizens of four countries to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds while it reviews vetting and ...
CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is leading a multi-city push calling on President Joe Biden to let long-term residents in the U.S. without legal permission work legally. Johnson ...
Refugee camp (located in present-day eastern Congo-Kinshasa) for Rwandans following the Rwandan genocide of 1994. A camp in Guinea for refugees from Sierra Leone. Nahr el-Bared, Palestinian refugee camp in North Lebanon in 2005. Mitzpe Ramon, development camp for Jewish refugees, southern Israel, 1957. A refugee camp is a temporary settlement ...