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One team in New Hampshire has more than 60 people volunteering to help resettle refugees.
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One team in New Hampshire has more than 60 people volunteering to help resettle refugees.
The Biden administration is expected to make permanent a program that allows everyday Americans to resettle people displaced from a slew of countries.
With refugee resettlement agencies overwhelmed after being gutted by the Trump administration, thousands of Americans heeded the call to help Afghans restart their lives in far-flung towns across the United States with little to no immigrant populations
By JULIE WATSON and AMY TAXIN Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — When nearly 80,000 Afghans arrived in the United States, refugee resettlement agencies quickly became overwhelmed, still scrambling to rehire staff and reopen offices after being gutted as the Trump administration dropped refugee admissions to a record low. So the U.S. State Department, working with humanitarian organizations, turned