10.29 Asylum & Refugee Meeting Report Jan 27 2015

3 “Credible fear” is defined in section 235(b)(1)(B)(v) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U. [...] Priority 2 includes specially prioritized groups, such as Iraqis who worked with the US government, ethnic minorities and others from Burma in camps in Thailand and in Malaysia, Bhutanese refugees in Nepal, and                                                                                                                 7 Nezer, Melani. [...] In Georgia and Texas, 75% of refugees placed in matching grant programs ultimately become self-sufficient, while in states like Alabama, local industry has benefitted from job-                                                                                                                 8 The Voluntary Agencies Matching Grant Program was established by Congress in 1979 to supplement Voluntary Age. [...] The third set of recommendations addressed the need to ensure adequate and responsive funding for the refugee program: - Participants agreed that the refugee program should be funded so that the aim of the program – rapid self-sufficiency- can be achieved. [...] As some participants observed, is it humane to require individuals to return to their country of origin after they have spent many years living in the United States because conditions were not ripe for return? On the other hand, does the inability to return people negatively influence the willingness of the government to trigger TPS, knowing it is likely to lead to a long-term population? And, is.