This, after all, is what happened in the 1970s when America resettled many refugees who had come to Thailand to escape the Vietnam war.Now resettlement is being granted to all those in the camps who can find a country to take them.
Yet Mr. Huntsman did leave Washington with something that proved valuable when he resettled his family here: a thick Rolodex and a deep understanding of politics.
A "record high" 46 million people were now being helped by UNHCR, when including resettled people, those voluntarily returning to their countries of origin, and existing displaced populations, the agency said.
When I resettled in a small town across the Chesapeake Bay, on the rural eastern shore of Maryland, some of my friends -- straight and gay alike -- worried that I was moving to enemy territory, to a place where, as an openly gay man, I'd be shunned, or worse.
I recall telling him that with the brutal winters in Minneapolis and a wife and five kids, I looked forward to relocating to a warmer climate with a paying job, but if he did not mind I would like to contact him when I resettled.
Sticks moved to the Chathams from Taranaki about four years ago, following his parents when they resettled on nearby Pitt Island.
The family, all refugees of Somalia's ongoing civil war, had to leave him behind with a friend in Uganda when they resettled to Ohio in 2015.
It was demonstrated during Friday's Refugee Voices panel when recently resettled refugees shared their stories and discussed their desires for their children to have an education and an opportunity to have a prosperous life.
"When ministers proposed resettling the refugees to her, she infamously remarked that it was: 'quite wrong that immigrants should be given council housing whereas white citizens were not'.
