Refugees

People hold signs as they gather outside the U.S. District Court after a federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's effort to halt the nation's refugee admissions system Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME Cabrel Ngounou, center, a refugee from Cameroon, talks with his sponsors Lori Ostlund, left, and Anne Raeff in their home in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

Farmer Sylvain Bukasa, a refugee from Democratic Republic of the Congo, harvests corn on his plot at Fresh Start Farm, Aug. 19, 2024, in Dunbarton, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Member of the Refugee Paralympic Team Hadi Hassanzada, left, who will compete in Para taekwondo, trains ahead of the Paralympic Games, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024 in Reims, eastern France. (AP Photo/Patrick Hermansen)

Afghan Taekwondo Paralympian Zakia Khudadadi, part of the Refugee Olympic Team, poses for a photo during an interview with The Associated Press at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Alya Gali, a Gaza Strip-born doctor, looks at debris two weeks after a missile killed nine as it hit a private clinic where he has worked for most of his professional life in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, July 22, 2024. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 catapulted Gali’s life into the chaos of constant air raids and missile attacks. Israel’s war on Hamas turned his hometown into a hellscape, uprooting his family and killing two of his relatives. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

People gather on the beach as a migrant center is seen in the foreground in the port of Shengjin, northwest Albania, Thursday, July 25, 2024. Migrants rescued at sea while attempting to reach Italy are likely to see themselves transported to Albania from next month while their asylum claims are processed, under a controversial deal in which the small Balkan country will host thousands of asylum-seekers on Italy's behalf. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

Refugee Team athlete Perina Lokure Nakang poses for a portrait, Sunday, July 28, 2024, during the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Megan Janetsky)

Hadi Shammo, 30, a Yazidi returnee, stands amid the wreckage of his destroyed family house in the village of Dugure in Sinjar, Iraq, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. "In the end we have to return here — our life is here" in Sinjar, said Shammo, whose family returned from a camp in Duhok area. "This is part of our identity." (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)

N, a 12-year-old ethnic Rohingya refugee identified by The Associated Press with only an initial, because she is a sexual assault survivor, stands in her tent at a temporary shelter in Meulaboh, Indonesia, on Thursday, April 4, 2024. N was among 75 people rescued from atop an overturned fishing boat off the Indonesian coast in March. Dozens of other Rohingya refugees died. (AP Photo/Reza Saifullah)

Lutheran Services Carolinas outreach coordinator supervisor Sarah Lewis, center, teaches an English class for recently arrived refugees, Thursday, April 11, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. The American refugee program, which long served as a haven for people fleeing violence around the world, is rebounding from years of dwindling arrivals under former President Donald Trump. The Biden administration has worked to restaff refugee resettlement agencies and streamline the process of vetting and placing people in America. (AP Photo/Erik Verduzco)