Friends of Refugees

A U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program Watchdog Group

Document Library

FOIAs — info for media organizations (here)

FOR documents

6-10-05, letter to Office of Admissions re. Refugee Travel Loans

9-5-05, Safety of Refugees in the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program

2-25-10, Friends of Refugees recommendations to the National Security Council

Media  articles:

     Arizona, Phoenix

6-10-09, Texas Canyon crash kills 6, injures 11, Arizona Range News

9-1-09, Iraqi refugees protest treatment by relief organization

7-8-10, Phoenix settles men’s police-abuse claim, Arizona Republic

7-13-10, Police altercation near Phoenix church ‘put fear into community’

California, Oakland:

5-20-04, Is the Saint of South LA for real?, LA Weekly 

9-22-07, Refugee agency founder held, Los Angeles Times

6-27-08, Refugees find common ground in East Bay

2-17-09, East Bay refugees have a new safe haven but with different challenges

4-23-09, Fleeing war, some refugess find crime

2-17-10, Still Seeking Refuge, East Bay Express

Connecticut, Hartford

Somali immigrants to Hartford complain of no jobs and  a lack of support from social agencies.

Connecticut, Waterbury

Burmese refugees to be moved from apartments

Frustrated refugees meet with director of Institute

Refugees stuck in squalor

Burmese refugees forced into substandard housing

    Agency helping Burmese refugees loses contract

Florida, Jacksonville

Georgia, Atlanta

                  – USCCB affiliate scandal in Atlanta in 2000

- ECDC affiliate scandal in Atlanta in 2003

Illinois, Chicago

Kentucky, Louisville

Massachusetts, Boston

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

New Hampshire, Manchester

North Dakota, Fargo

Ohio, Cincinatti

Pennsylvania, Erie

Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh

Tennessee, Memphis

Texas, Houston

Utah, Salt Lake City

Unaccompanied Refugee Minors

States asked to take in more refugee orphans

U.S. Department of State

  1. Operational Guidance To Resettlement Agencies
  2. Office of Inspector General (OIG)

Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), ACF, US Dept. of Health & Human Services

  • Matching Grant — ORR contractor Inspection Reports

Illinois, Chicago — Heartland Alliance — 2005 inspection

Kentucky, Bowling Green — Bowling Green International Center — 2006 inspection

  • Misc.

1-3-12, New telephone scam apparently targeting Bhutanese refugees

Congress

Congressman Dingell’s March 12, 2010 letter in support of President Obama’s proposed FY 2011 budget increase for the ORR

7-20-11 Letter, Sen. Leahy EtAl to Napolitano re. SIV’s

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