A record number of refugees and other new arrivals have come to Alaska this year due to ongoing conflicts in other parts of the world.
Tuesday her office typically works with about 150 new arrivals per year. This year, it has enrolled more than 275 people so far.
“That’s a very rapid growth in resettlement, and we are very lucky here in the state of Alaska that we had retained our staff and really people who are experts on resettlement through all of those things,” said Spatrisano. “So like the person who’s been doing reception and placement in our office for over 20 years, really since the start of the refugee program, was still there.”
Opanasevych wrote that nearly 200 people have arrived in Alaska so far since they began buying tickets earlier this year and another 100 are expected this summer.
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