Jennie Taer

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Morning Wire · They Sold Everything. Then the Flight Was Canceled. · 30 May 2026 podcast

So they call themselves the limbo cases.

They were told by this leftist group, the Church World Service, which is tasked by the United States with helping with refugee resettlement, and they handle it on both ends.

So they'll help when they're in South Africa and then when they arrive in the U.S.

in a lot of cases.

This group has advocated against the Trump administration refugee policy and has taken the Trump administration to court over it because they say that the Trump administration shouldn't be prioritizing that class of refugees and they think that they're leaving behind others in doing so.

So while there's this apparent...

conflict of interest, they're the ones who are supposed to be helping these refugees get here.

Now what's happened with a lot of these people is that they were approved to come, they received approval from the United States, and CWS was helping facilitate their travel to the United States, booked their tickets,

and said, you are going to be leaving.

Usually a lot of them said they were told within days.

And so what happened then is you had this group of people that sold their belongings, sold their cars, homes, quit their jobs, basically were preparing to leave their whole life and livelihoods behind.

And then the rug was pulled out from under them because this organization, Church World Service, let them know at the very last second that their trip was canceled, that they would have updates on their case in the future and would be working to reschedule their travel.

But here they are months later, still no answers from Church World Service or the United States government.

Yeah.

So the Trump administration has tried to actually, you know, really gut the refugee resettlement NGO infrastructure.

And they tried to defund these organizations and cut their contracts.

But because they have such legal strength, they fought back.

And so far.

The Trump administration, because of these court orders, is being forced to continue to keep them as part of this refugee resettlement program.

So it's partially, you know, the U.S.

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