To establish, in the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the Destination Reception Services Program New Arrival Services Board and to authorize a grant program for providing funding for medium-term services to eligible arrivals in destination States and localities to promote their self-sufficiency, reduce costs of extended emergency service provision, maximize benefit to new arrivals and host communities, provide diversion from homelessness, and promote the effective navigation and compliance of the immigration process.
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Latest Action · July 30, 2024
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
The Destination Reception Assistance Act would establish a new federal grant program to help immigrants who have recently arrived in the United States with medium-term support services. The program would serve people who have been granted parole, placed in removal proceedings, or have pending asylum applications, helping them access housing, job training, medical care, legal services, and other support to achieve self-sufficiency. The legislation creates a national New Arrival Services Board and local boards in communities with concentrations of new arrivals to identify needs and distribute federal funding based on factors like the ratio of arrivals in a community and local cost of living. The bill authorizes $3 billion per year for fiscal years 2025 through 2028 to fund these services through grants to local government agencies and nonprofit organizations. The program is explicitly separate from detention alternatives and participation in any monitoring or surveillance is not required to receive services.
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