Casar, Doggett and other Texas Democrats demand release of $42M in federal refugee funds
Austin American-Statesman - Austin, TX
by Emiliano Tahui Gómez
March 13, 2025
“Texas congressional Democrats are calling on the federal government to release the money it has withheld from the organization that is in charge of distributing reimbursements to the state’s refugee service providers.
In a Thursday letter to the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. representatives including Greg Casar and Lloyd Doggett of Austin demanded that the administration’s Office of Refugee Resettlement immediately release contractually obligated funding to the nonprofit Texas Office for Refugees.
‘If funding is not restored immediately, hundreds of thousands of refugees across the state could be permanently left without crucial medical services, basic shelter, and legal support,’ according to the letter, which also was signed by Democratic Reps. Julie Johnson of Farmers Branch; Al Green of Houston; Veronica Escobar of El Paso; Sylvia Garcia of Houston; Lizzie Fletcher of Houston; Joaquin Castro of San Antonio; and Jasmine Crockett of Dallas.”
