Trump’s latest refugee crackdown hits home in Michigan, as a young man faces another Christmas without his family by CEDickson
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — This Christmas was supposed to be the first one in eight years that Abdoul Havugimana would celebrate with his family.
In late July 2019, after an intense vetting process involving several layers of background checks, biometrics screenings and a battery of tests and vaccinations for a variety of illnesses, they were finally approved for resettlement in the United States. Within a few months, they would join Havugimana and other members of the family in their adopted home of Grand Rapids.
Havugimana, who is currently studying international relations at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, compared his family’s dilemma to spending an entire school year writing a 60-page paper only to be informed by your professor that you’d completed the wrong assignment and must start from scratch. Bethany resettled a total of 383 refugees in western Michigan during fiscal year 2019, three quarters of them from Congo. Eighty-one others were caught in the same bureaucratic Catch-22 as Havugimana’s family, their flights postponed until after their health certifications expired.
But the Congolese are among the few refugee groups who’ve actually seen their numbers grow substantially under the Trump administration, a result, in part, of the shrinking allotments to majority-Muslim countries such as Syria and Iraq. In fiscal year 2019, the United States resettled 12,958 refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo , more than from any other country, and a 64 percent increase from the previous year.
Before the president can issue a final determination on the maximum number of refugees who can be admitted each fiscal year, the Departments of State, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services must provide Congress with a report outlining the current global refugee situation along with the administration’s proposed admissions ceiling for the coming year.
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