Former staff of the Minnesota Council of Churches Refugee Services announced that since January 20, there have been some massive changes to refugee and immigration policies in this country that has dealt major blows to newly arrived refugees and the organizations that serve them. Almost overnight we saw refugee admissions suspended and a freeze on federal funding for resettlement work.  Despite challenges to these policies moving through the courts, recent waves of deportations and the stripping of protection for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans are signals of the administration’s intent to continue rolling back protections for refugees. Hundreds of families who arrived in the Twin Cities prior to  January 20th have found themselves in an incredibly difficult situation. Funds are desperately needed to help with rent assistance for immigrant refugees who had been legally admitted and have recently arrived and need assistance as many have come with nothing. 

Please consider a donation to help with rental assistance . Checks can be made out to  Union Congregational UCC with a designation on the memo line, Refugee Housing MN. All proceeds received that are designated will go to this cause