Syrian refugee Tamam Al Sharaa and his family now live in an apartment in North Dallas, Texas. The IRC defended the family’s right to resettle in Texas and helped them obtain housing and work in their new neighborhood.

As another caravan of Central American survivors of violence and abuse makes its way to the United States border, here’s what you need to know about the situation.  

Refugees are people whose lives you would recognize. They're mothers, fathers, daughters, sons who have escaped violence and persecution. Meet some of the families wrenched apart by the Trump Administration's order halting refugee arrivals to the United States.

The Bazara family from Aleppo, Syria thought they had found their promised land in the U.S., only to have their dreams shattered—and then made whole in “the country of rights.”