Organizations that help newcomers have started to cut programs and lay off staff due to the loss of funding.
Immigrant contributions to government revenues are higher than they may first appear.
Trump Administration-era cuts scaled back refugee programs, but the resettlement of 88,000 Afghans prompted them to ramp up and expand.
But remittances have actually fallen as the war has dragged on.
75-year-old Alla Mikhno fled to a small town in Poland, where people are using their own resources to make refugees feel at home.
Resettlement agencies say they’re ready to help.
“This is going to be more difficult than the evacuation of Saigon,” said Matt Zeller, co-founder of a nonprofit helping with the evacuation effort.
Refugee resettlement is dropping in Erie, Pennsylvania, affecting its economy.
In Cynthia Anderson’s “Home Now,” Somalis and Congolese transform a former mill town. At a flower shop there, wariness turns to warmth.
The refugee entrepreneurs’ motives are often a mix of altruism and self-interest.