A new program that allows groups of U.S. citizens to name the specific refugees they would like to sponsor to come to America is giving a family in Texas hope of a reunification. Several years ago, Jacob Mabil was able to bring his mother from a refugee camp in Africa to his home in suburban Fort Worth. Now the family also hopes that Mabil s two nieces, now young women who his mother had raised since they were babies, can join them. The transformation of the refugee resettlement process in the U.S. comes as the Biden administration seeks to restore a program decimated under President Donald Trump. Originally from what is now South Sudan, the lives of Mabil, his mother and his wife have all been torn apart by war.
A new program that allows groups of U.S. citizens to name the specific refugees they would like to sponsor to come to America is giving a family in Texas hope of a reunification. Several years ago, Jacob Mabil was able to bring his mother from a refugee camp in Africa to his home in suburban Fort Worth. Now the family also hopes that Mabil s two nieces, now young women who his mother had raised since they were babies, can join them. The transformation of the refugee resettlement process in the U.S. comes as the Biden administration seeks to restore a program decimated under President Donald Trump. Originally from what is now South Sudan, the lives of Mabil, his mother and his wife have all been torn apart by war.
The transformation of the refugee resettlement process in the U.S. comes as the Biden administration seeks to restore a program decimated under President Donald Trump.
A new program that allows groups of U.S. citizens to name the specific refugees they would like to sponsor to come to America is giving a family in Texas hope
Worried about his mother's health, Jacob Mabil tried for months to persuade her to let him start the process that would take her from a sprawling refugee camp where she had spent almost a decade after fleeing violence in South Sudan.