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Refugee newcomers have an outsize impact in upstate New York communities where houses sit empty after deindustrialization hurt the local economy and drove population down. But President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending new refugee admissions cut into services that helped refugees who were here already, forcing resettlement agencies to lay off staff who had been helping newcomers acclimate to life in the United States. The order and subsequent directives from the State Department froze federal funding that nonprofits use to pay their employees, and to cover rent and household goods for recently arrived refugees.

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Refugee newcomers have an outsize impact in upstate New York communities where houses sit empty after deindustrialization hurt the local economy and drove population down. But President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending new refugee admissions cut into services that helped refugees who were here already, forcing resettlement agencies to lay off staff who had been helping newcomers acclimate to life in the United States. The order and subsequent directives from the State Department froze federal funding that nonprofits use to pay their employees, and to cover rent and household goods for recently arrived refugees.

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