President Donald Trump has claimed that refugees coming into the United States are not screened. The truth is that refugees are already vetted more intensively than any other group seeking to enter the country. Four refugees describe the exhaustive interviews and security checks they and their families went through to resettle in the U.S.

Meet Deepak, the owner of two local restaurants and a former refugee.

An Afghan family of four begin again in their new New York home.

This International Rescue Committee paper analyzes refugee experiences moving into higher skill, higher wage jobs.

Since May 2017, KindWorks has worked with the IRC in Silver Spring to set-up and furnish apartments for three newly arriving refugee families. Their efforts to engage local volunteers provides invaluable support to new refugee families and makes refugees feel welcome in our community.

The community sponsorship program at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Salt Lake City launched in March 2022, building a robust foundation that resulted in the first sponsor team connection in November 2022.

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.