The state’s resettlement total of 50 people is a 95% decline from last year, leaving Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services preparing for a far slower pace of arrivals.
Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services
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Maine will resettle only 50 refugees this year, all white South Africans
Reductions by the Trump administration continue after Maine was allowed to resettle about half of the 950 refugees allocated last year.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
Maine resettlement agencies told they can no longer support refugees already here
A State Department directive says agencies will not be reimbursed for items like housing and food assistance, cutting off lifelines for new Mainers during the first three months in a new community.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, Nation / World
‘Three Years Overdue’: Afghan mother is reunited with her children
After they were separated fleeing the Taliban, an Afghan mother shares how she was reunited with her children.
Posted inMaine, Schools & Education
Refugees to be provided transitional housing at Good Will-Hinckley in Fairfield
About 35 refugees from Somalia, Syria and other countries are to be relocated from southern Maine to the Good Will-Hinckley campus.
Posted inMaine, News
Maine refugee resettlement numbers expected to double
The state’s 3 resettlement agencies expect to receive a total of 840 refugees from various countries in the next 12 months.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
Local nonprofits deliver mattresses to Lewiston families in need
In total, 60 mattresses were delivered to asylum-seekers in need Friday.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
MEIRS celebrates 15 years of helping new Mainers settle in Lewiston area
The organization was started in 2008 to help children in Somali refugee families graduate high school.