What Can Leaders Do to Address the Impact of Refugee Resettlement?

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- Determine if refugee resettlement will have an adverse impact on existing residents of a community.
- Increase communication with local officials.
- Establish protocol for local government officials to seek a moratorium on new refugee resettlement activities in their communities.
- Increase oversight of nonprofit organizations that have been delegated authority to manage refugee resettlement.
- Restore authority to manage refugee resettlement in the state legislatures.
- Require state refugee coordinator to report at least quarterly to the state legislature on the measures taken to ensure that the state’s refugee plan is in line with the best interest of current residents.
- Withhold state-administered public benefits from newly resettled refugees if resettlement occurs without notice or coordination with state and local officials.
- Refuse cooperation with the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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