An Oregon state senator and representative, who both have refugee stories of their own, are working together to make sure Afghans arriving in the state have the resources they need.
He couch surfed, unsure of how to find housing and get food on the table. With no transition from refugee to U.S. resident, he felt like he was starting from scratch.
When Kabul was captured by the Taliban this summer and many scrambled to leave the country, Pham said she felt their fear and urgency on a deeper level. Now, with 60,000 refugees looking to be transitioned from U.S. military bases to“I viscerally felt the panic that many Afghan families are feeling as they were trying to escape,” she said. “And I think that allowed us to act quickly and act in unison.
Jama said much of the infrastructure that once existed for refugees’ transition was dismantled during the Trump administration, and building it back as much as possible is hard, but a necessary challenge.
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