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A growing number of people who have fled Ukraine are trying to go the U.S.

The United States agreed to accept up to 100,000 people escaping from the war in Ukraine, here’s how that will work.

The new total of refugees from Ukraine amounts to a little more than 2% of the country’s total population of 44 million.

The local Afghan community, centered in Northeast Philadelphia, has nearly doubled with the influx of evacuees, adding 650 new people. Resettlement agencies predict around 200 newly arrived Afghan students will be enrolled in local schools once all the families are processed.

Philadelphia International Airport is now the only entry point in the United States accepting Afghan evacuees.

A new NPR/Ipsos poll shows unusually wide support for resettling Afghans allies. Even many Republicans who favor tighter controls on immigration say the U.S. should help those who fled the Taliban.