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Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
DOGE cuts slash funding from Greensboro organization helping refugees, immigrants
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — A Greensboro-based organization helping legal refugees obtain US citizenship has been hit by funding cuts at the federal level through the Department of Government Efficiency run by Elon Musk. The New Arrivals Institute will have to dramatically scale back services after the six-digit cut to a Department of Homeland Security Grant. The NAI and UNCG were the collaborative partners on a two-year, $300,000 Citizenship and Integration grant. It's one they were awarded three times. One single email ended that funding. 'It was a mass email that didn't even blind copy,' Executive Director of the NAI Leilani Roughton said. 'It was every agency across the country that has this service.' NAI provides services to refugees and immigrants who legally come to the United States who are vetted by Homeland Security and medically screened. 'People, if they come here, are able to learn English, able to get jobs and really be contributing members of our community in Greensboro,' Roughton said. They also help with financial literacy, parenting skills, child supervision, food, clothes and shoes. 'In addition to classes, we have case management, health access. We work with the refugee school impact program, getting kids into school,' she said. Data from last year's NAI annual report shows Greensboro receives people from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria, Sudan and a significant number of Afghans who served with the US military. 'I really enjoyed welcoming them because they supported us, and I feel like we really need to support them in return,' Roughton said. The loss of $$300,000 in federal grant funding will force NAI to cut back on classes. 'It's got us kind of scrambling a little bit to find other sources of funding and hoping there aren't further cuts coming,' Lead Citizenship Instructor Juliette Biemiller said. Biemiller says the cuts hurt students the most because they can further delay their goal of citizenship. 'I rarely meet anybody who loves America more than my students who are trying to become American citizens,' Biemiller said. According to their annual report, NAI receives the bulk of its funding from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services for refugee support services, but the fear is that since that money comes from the Federal Refugee Resettlement Center, there could be more cuts in the future. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
USA Today
23-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Florida baseball embarrassed in fifth-straight SEC loss
Florida baseball embarrassed in fifth-straight SEC loss Conference plays continued to bring out the worst Florida baseball has to offer Saturday afternoon as the Georgia Bulldogs defeated the Gators, 17-2. The 15-run margin satisfies the run rule in place during SEC play, but Florida played all nine innings after the final six Georgia runs in the ninth inning. The Bulldogs scored runs in each of the first five innings and led the Gators 9-0 before the first Gators run of the day came in the sixth. Brendan Lawson broke the shutout with an RBI single to score Bobby Boser and Hayden Yost hit his first career home run in the seventh, but the blowout loss (and series loss) overshadowed the only two positives for the Orange and Blue on the day. Billy Barlow took the loss for the Gators, allowing six earned runs on seven hits, three of which were homers, and two walks. Barlow isn't typically a weekend starter for Florida but got the call with Liam Peterson and Pierce Coppola both dealing with injuries. McCall Biemiller didn't have much success in relief of Barlow after striking out the side against FAMU earlier in the week. Georgia went deep twice off Biemiller, scoring three runs, but he did record four strikeouts over two innings. Carlos Montsdeoca and Felix Ong made their Florida debuts with the rout on. Neither surrenders a long ball, but Georgia tagged Montsdeoca for two runs and Ong for three. Like Biemiller, Ong had four strikeouts over two innings of work, providing a very thin silver lining. Jacob Gomberg was the last man out of the bullpen and gave up three extra-base hits (two doubles and a home run) as Florida crawled to the finish line. His ERA is now 63.00 on the season after being given the ball against two hot offenses in blowout games. Remember, Gomberg is coming back from Tommy John surgery that kept him out all of last year— a brutal way to welcome a redshirt freshman back. Florida will attempt to salvage what's left of the series on Sunday at 1 p.m. EDT. The Gators are still in search of their first conference win after starting the season 0-5 against SEC teams. Follow us @GatorsWire on X, formerly known as Twitter, as well as Bluesky, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Florida Gators news, notes and opinions.
