Topic: Refugee Resettlement

Through our network of local resettlement partners, HIAS welcomes resettled refugees and helps them build their lives in communities across the United States.

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Aug 4, 2025

New Report Documents Widespread Benefits of Community Sponsorship

A new report, based on interviews with refugees in the Chicago area, found enormous benefits to community sponsorship of refugees.

A woman discusses her experience.

Jul 21, 2025

After HIAS Lawsuit, a Refugee Family Begins New Life in U.S.

After a judge ruled in Pacito v. Trump that the U.S. must admit some refugees in spite the Trump administration's ban, a family of eight began a new life in America.

Staff from JFS of Western Massachusetts greet a refugee family at an airport.

Jun 6, 2025

The Shameful Lesson of the ‘St. Louis’ is as Relevant as Ever

Eighty-six years after the U.S. refused the ship's entry, our country is again embracing xenophobic policies.

Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis crowd along the ship’s railing, some waving and smiling, as the ship departs Hamburg in 1939 in a failed attempt to find refuge from Nazi persecution.

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.

A woman and small child walk down a street.

May 6, 2025

U.S. Government Ordered to Comply with Court Orders in Refugee Ban Lawsuit or Face Sanctions

The government must process around 12,000 refugees stranded by the Trump administration.

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.

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 11, 2025

Refugee Rights and the Trump Administration: April 11, 2025

The latest news, insight, and analysis on the Trump administration's policies toward refugees.

The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, speaks during a news conference to discuss her husband’s arrest and deportation at Cannon House Office Building on April 9, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

Apr 4, 2025

Refugee Rights and the Trump Administration — April 4, 2025

The latest news and analysis on the Trump administration's policies affecting refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers.

A deported women leaves a facility in El Salvador.

Mar 31, 2025

Facing Impossible Odds, An Afghan Refugee Fights to Rescue His Family

Resettled in Philadelphia, Mohib, an Afghan who helped the American war effort, works to secure his family's arrival in the United States.

Mohib and his children at their home in Philadelphia. March 2025.

Mar 21, 2025

Refugee Rights and the Trump Administration — The Latest

The latest news and analysis on the president's policies on refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants.

Refugee Rights and the Trump Administration — The Latest