Delaware’s Syrian Refugees Ready for Their New Home

Delaware Public Radio is reporting that the Syrian family set to resettle in Delaware have rebooked their flight for this week given that the courts have struck down Trump’s Muslim ban.

Monday morning, their travel plans were re-booked and showed up in a database managed by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

But Sarah Green, Refugee Resettlement Volunteer Coordinator for Jewish Family Services of Delaware, remains only cautiously optimistic.

“There is still an appeal happening in the 9th Circuit Court,” Green said. “So the decision could come out of that the travel plans get canceled again.”

The ACLU of Delaware tells Green the courts could decide within 48 hours whether the travel ban should be reinstated or the freeze upheld, but the lawyers add a reinstatement of the ban is unlikely.

The public domain photograph is of a Syrian refugee family, not the Syrian refugee family headed to Delaware.