The Biden Administration’s Welcome Corps will allow Americans to sponsor newcomers to their home towns—and will test how exposure to refugees changes people’s lives.
In January, the State Department announced the launch of a program called the Welcome Corps, proclaiming it to be the “boldest innovation in refugee resettlement in four decades.” Under the plan, groups of five or more American citizens or permanent residents can apply to privately sponsor the resettlement of refugees. These
Citizens have played a role in refugee resettlement for a long time. Under the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, hundreds of thousands of Europeans—including Catholics, Protestants, and Jews from Poland, Germany, Latvia, and the U.S.S.R.—resettled in the United States. After the Cuban Revolution, Cuban parents sent more than fourteen thousand children to states across the country.
In response to the situations in Afghanistan and Ukraine, U.S. government agencies launched the Sponsor Circle Program, to resettle Afghans, and Uniting for Ukraine, to resettle Ukrainians. Tens of thousands of Americans applied to participate, giving the Biden Administration confidence that a program such as the Welcome Corps could be successful. Cecilia Muñoz, a co-founder of Welcome.
Still, the Welcome Corps might relieve some political pressure from President Biden, by signalling that some good can be done on immigration despite an intransigent Republican caucus. The program is, in this sense, an inverted yet complementary effort to shipments of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard and other liberal parts of the country by Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, and Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott.
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