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A woman and small child walk down a street.
May 21, 2025

A Welcome Circle Helps a Journalist’s Family Start a New Story

After Hasan, Fatima, and their young son arrived in the U.S., they turned to HIAS for help.

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Zubair Babakarkhail, center, watches as his daughter Javeria, left, 6, points out photos of other refugees she knows in an issue of “Postindustrial” magazine to Ivonne Smith-Tapia, right, director of refugee services at Jewish Child and Family Service (JCFS), during a small gathering on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021, in Pittsburgh. Babakarkhail is continuing reporting on his home country of Afghanistan for the magazine and other news outlets after his role as a journalist put him in danger under Afghanistan’s new Taliban rule. (Stephanie Strasburg/HIAS)
May 15, 2025

TPS is Ending for Afghans — What You Need to Know

The decision to end TPS for Afghans is based on misleading, disingenuous justifications and may have appalling humanitarian consequences. Learn more

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May 15, 2025

Refugees in Ecuador: What You Need to Know

A huge increase in violence has worsened an already challenging situation for refugees in Ecuador.

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Newly arrived Somali refugees wait at the profiling and resigtration centre in the Dadaab refugee camp, one of Africa's largest refugee camps in Kenya, on March 23, 2023. - Between 400 and 500 people arrive at Dadaab every day, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR, mostly driven from Somalia after five consecutive seasons of failed rains. The World Health Organization says this drought, already the worst in 40 years, could result in the deaths of 135 people in Somalia every day between January and June this year. (Photo by Bobb Muriithi / AFP) (Photo by BOBB MURIITHI/AFP via Getty Images)
May 1, 2025

Refugees in Kenya: What You Need to Know

Kenya hosts more than 830,000 refugees and asylum seekers. HIAS has worked in Kenya since 2002, supporting displaced people.

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Deported people looking for relatives from the windows of a transport during the arrival of a group of Salvadorans deported from the United States to the Migrant Care Management Office (GAMI), in San Salvador, El Salvador on February 12, 2025. (Alex Pena/Anadolu via Getty Images
Apr 29, 2025

100 Days of Attacks on Immigration, Asylum, and Refugee Rights

The first 100 days of President Trump's second turn have seen an grave attack on immigration, refugee rights, and asylum. HIAS is fighting back.

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A van of deportees approaches CECOT prison in El Salvador.
Apr 25, 2025

Refugee Rights and the Trump Administration — April 25, 2025

The latest updates, insight, and analysis about the Trump administration's policies toward refugees.

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Apr 23, 2025

HIAS Legal Protection Team Notches Important Victories Around the World

Despite a challenging context, legal protection teams across HIAS have recently won important victories for their clients.

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Apr 22, 2025

Jewish Clergy Speak Out on the Immoral Use of the Law

A letter from Jewish clergy challenges what it calls the Trump administration's immoral use of the law in its immigration policy.

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Apr 18, 2025

Refugee Rights and the Trump Administration: April 18, 2025

Insight and analysis of the week's news on U.S. immigration, asylum, and refugees.

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Apr 15, 2025

Sudanese Refugees in Chad — An Update

Two years into Sudan's civil war, HIAS continues to help Sudanese refugees who have settled in camps in eastern Chad.

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