“In Somalia there are people shooting and killing each other. Sometimes people are raping very young girls. This happened to my sister and they took her. We keep looking for her but I never saw her again. This happened to other girls and that’s why we had to escape. We feel like in Utica these things can’t happen to us. I want to study science and become a doctor. That way I can go back and help my people.” - Imran, 14 In 2014 Imran, in pink, and her family were resettled in the United States and have joined a growing Somali community in Utica, New York. On September 17, 2018 the Trump administration announced that refugee admissions would be limited to 30,000 for Fiscal Year 2019, the lowest number since the passage of the Refugee Act of 1980 and an undermining of the United States’s long-standing position of refugee protection.