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Starting over in a new country is not easy, but a Southeastern Washington organization helps refugee families create a path to success through education.

For over a year, a group of Active Duty and National Guard Green Berets formerly known as Team 11 have been helping their Afghan co-workers leave the war torn country. Members of the National Mine Reduction Group and their families are seeking refugee status.

Reports of 1000 Ukranians coming to the Tri Cities are not accurate according to the head of an organization that aids refugees in the area.

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The Afghan resettlement has begun in Washington. The Islamic Center of the Tri-Cities is helping families to settle in the area. One of the first families here is a young couple with a two-year-old child. They traveled nearly seven thousand miles to arrive at Pasco airport.

The Tri Cities area will see 40 Afgham refugees resettled there. What are organziations are doing to assist them?

The White House has walked back its announcement that it will keep this year's historically low refugee ceiling of 15,000 set by the Trump administration, saying its earlier statement Friday, which was panned by fellow Democrats, was meant only to ease restrictions from countries from which refugees are currently banned.

Among the more daunting challenges President Biden faces in the coming year will be to make good on his goal of admitting 10 times as many refugees — 125,000 — as former President Donald Trump allowed to enter the United States last year. During his presidency, Trump ordered drastic cutbacks in the U.S. refugee program.

Mati Diop is the first black woman to compete at the Cannes Film Festival — where her first feature won the Grand Prix. The movie about women left behind by refugees is coming soon to Netflix.