A family in limbo as U.S. slows refugee admissions
NEW YORK/KAMPALA - Somali refugee Ramlo Ali Noor will never be reunited with her 16-year-old son in her new home in Columbus, Ohio.
The U.S. government plans to slash the refugee ceiling to 18,000, its lowest since the modern refugee program began in 1980. More than half the places for refugees in the 2020 fiscal year are reserved for Iraqis, Central Americans and religious minorities, leaving only 7,500 for everyone else, according to a White House proposal. President Donald Trump has yet to finalize the refugee number for next year.
Trump has made curbing legal and illegal immigration a priority. Shortly after taking office, he halved his predecessor Barack Obama’s plans to resettle 110,000 refugees in 2017 and has been whittling down the numbers ever since. “These refugees who have already been interviewed and approved could travel to the U.S. over the next 12 months,” said Strack, since most of the administrative work on their cases has been completed. “The real issue here is this Administration’s desire for lower levels of legal immigration, and their hostility to refugees as part of that flow,” she said.Noor’s sons are from a previous marriage and their father is not involved in their lives.
Once she was resettled in Ohio in 2015, she applied for her sons to join her. With a job as a home health aide, she was able to pay for them to move to Kampala, Uganda. But since passing a DNA test in 2016 to prove they were her sons, their cases have been stuck. In 2019, she received two requests for additional evidence to clarify inconsistencies in their applications, according to documents seen by Reuters.
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