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The International Refugee Assistance Project helps #refugees navigate #resettlement processes & works to improve relevant policy. Links/RTs ≠ endorsements.
USA, Germany, Jordan, Lebanon
Joined March 2013
This week, law students from IRAP chapters across the United States participated in IRAP #AdvocacyWeek2025. Students met with congressional offices to urge them to support four of our policy asks:
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Everyone deserves a safe place to live and a safe way to get there. Sign our pledge to join our global community that believes no one should be punished for seeking refuge, and that justice, dignity, and hope belong to everyone: https://t.co/9usbneef1a
refugeerights.quorum.us
Take the pledge!
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Trump just issued a plan to lower refugee admissions to their lowest ever, primarily to white Afrikaners, seeking to decimate refugee resettlement as we know it. Our partners and advocates remind us of what is still at stake and the future that refugees deserve:
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IRAP President Sharif Aly: “This determination makes it painfully clear that the Trump administration values politics over protection. [...] the number of approved and vetted refugees who had confirmed travel plans to resettle in the U.S. before the administration unlawfully
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The Trump administration just made it official: this year’s refugee admissions will be the lowest in history, reserving most of the spots for white Afrikaners. Read our statement: https://t.co/GX3Mc9QYYw
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"In its latest attempt to force the State Department to comply with special immigrant visa statutory requirements, @IRAP filed a lawsuit on behalf of three members of the Afghan National Public Protection Force last week." Read more from @BWBailey85:
washingtonexaminer.com
The State Department continues to ignore its obligations under the Afghan Allies Protection Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.
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Ali is a plaintiff in IRAP's lawsuit defending the refugee program from being dismantled by the Trump administration. Read more in @lgbtqnation:
As soon as Ali got to the U.S., Trump ended the programs refugees depend on to survive. #LGBTQ
https://t.co/uQGwJ6gNeo
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NEW from @lgbtqnation: Ali was granted refugee status because he was persecuted for being gay. Shortly after he arrived in Dallas, Trump cut funding for refugees and Ali was forced to subsist on peanut butter. Now he's a plaintiff in our lawsuit: https://t.co/opVyJVeXVG
lgbtqnation.com
As soon as Ali got to the U.S., Trump ended the programs refugees depend on to survive.
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Bahati Kanyamanza, IRAP's Global Partnerships Director, penned an op-ed for the @guardian where he draws from his own journey as a refugee to explain why gutting the U.S. refugee program would be a betrayal of America's deepest values. Read it here: https://t.co/UkjQMOQymE
theguardian.com
I fled war at 14 and decades later became a US citizen. Now I fear racism and exclusion could become official policy
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Bahati Kanyamanza, #RefugeeStorytellersCollective & @IRAP, writes in the @guardian on the importance of welcoming refugees: "[Our greatness] comes from compassion, courage and the belief that every person deserves a chance to rebuild their life in safety.” https://t.co/JEkesDkmVF
theguardian.com
I fled war at 14 and decades later became a US citizen. Now I fear racism and exclusion could become official policy
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"We already are aware of NPPF employees who have been killed by the Taliban or imprisoned and our plaintiffs and other people in their situation, their lives are in danger every day that passes." -- IRAP Attorney Mevlüde Akay Alp via @HoustonPubMedia
houstonpublicmedia.org
The three Afghan plaintiffs previously worked for the National Public Protection Force, an agency of the U.S.-backed Afghan government that aided American troops during nearly 20 years of war in...
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NEWS: Afghan War Allies Sue State Department Over Visa Denials @IRAP accuses Trump administration of illegally blocking America’s former guards from refuge. https://t.co/s3p6eZWRi7
migrantinsider.com
IRAP accuses Trump administration of illegally blocking America’s former guards from refuge.
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BREAKING: IRAP just filed a lawsuit on behalf of 3 Afghan nationals who provided critical security services to the US military but were denied the chance to apply for a Special Immigrant Visa (SIV). Our press release:
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Must-read story about our legal battle to restore the refugee program. An Afghan refugee family was scheduled to fly to the U.S. on January 22 but is now stranded in Qatar. “The impact of this on real human lives can’t be understated." - IRAP https://t.co/2blhVjrGY0
seattletimes.com
The Trump administration's refugee ban, as well as his sweeping travel ban, has left an Afghan woman in Tacoma waiting in horror over the fate of her family.
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📈NEW POLL: @RefugeeAdvcyLab, @RefugeesIntl & @DataProgress finds that more than two-thirds of voters believe the U.S. should have a refugee resettlement program. This poll also reveals the deep unpopularity of several other immigration policy changes⬇️ https://t.co/JydWEOqiBn
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