Central Vermont Refugee Action Network

08/29/2026

Thanks, everyone! Steve Tendo was one of the very first people assisted by CVRAN, and it's great that the energy is still there!

Community members, religious leaders, and state representatives rallied outside the ICE field office in St. Albans to support Steven Tendo, a Ugandan asylum seeker, during his immigration check-in hearing.

08/18/2026

Hundreds gathered at the Unitarian Church of Montpelier on Aug. 9 for a fundraiser supporting Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi, who is facing deportation. Story by Hojun Choi. Photos by Cassandra Hemenway. Read more at the link in comments or at thebridgevt.org

08/13/2026

CVRAN volunteers worked hard as part of a team to pass Vermont’s Fair and Impartial Policing Policy. Naturally we are saddened to read stories such as these.

“Vermont’s existing framework for keeping local police out of the deportation business clearly needs to be stronger, and there must be accountability when local officials violate that policy,” ACLU told VTDigger. “Vermont should not be complicit in ICE and Border Patrol abuse.”

08/07/2026

Vermont Says No Deportation of our Neighbor
Mohsen Mahdawi
Community support and fundraiser on Sunday , August 9.
The Social Action Committee of the Beth Jacob
Synagogue, in cooperation with the Unitarian Church
of Montpelier, invite you to a show of public support
and fundraiser for Mohsen Mahdawi, the Palestinian
Vermonter threatened by the Trump Administration
with deportation.
The event will take place at 7pm on Sunday August
9th at the Unitarian Church Montpelier, and is free
and open to the public.
Speakers will include Mohsen Mahdawi, David Cole,
Shaul Magid, Grace Oedel, Mark Hage, Joan Javier-
Duval, Eric Levi Jacobson, and the community and
families of Jewish and Palestinian Vermonters
standing up together to protect our neighbors.

07/22/2026

https://vtdigger.org/2026/07/22/vermont-conversation-im-sorry-that-this-isnt-what-we-promised-immigration-attorney-jill-martin-diaz-on-fear-and-hope-in-vermonts-immigrant-community/

Martin Diaz, who is the executive director of the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project, warns that “rights and protections are being stripped away every day in mundane-seeming memos and orders from courts.”

07/13/2026

Quarterly Meeting this month!

There is so much to enjoy on a Vermont summer day and we know a meeting might not be high on your list when a cool pond is beckoning. Still, we hope you will join CVRAN at our summer meeting.

06/30/2026

CVRAN is part of an exciting new project called Many Voices, One Vermont! Co-producing with Vermont Asylum Assistance Project and USCRI Vermont, we will be bringing you a variety of content about and by New Vermonters, each Sunday at 1:00 PM on 99.3 FM. MVOV is a 30-minute program celebrating the voices, stories, experiences, cultures, and contributions that make our community strong.

Last month's episode featured a discussion with VAAP's Jill Martin Diaz about immigration need-to-know's, interviews with runners in the Burlington City Marathon who raised money for USCRI-VT, and an introduction to CVRAN with our own Ali Zenie and Isabelle Tibi.

Each monthly episode delivers vital community updates and collaborative discussions with our partners. The platform centers the lived experiences, diverse backgrounds, and voices of the refugees, asylum seekers, and newcomers who call Vermont home.

Tune in the second Sunday in July for a new episode, or listen online and read more about it at the link below:

Many Voices, One Vermont on 99.3 FM, is a 30-minute program celebrating the voices, stories, experiences, cultures, and contributions that make our community strong.

06/26/2026

More from VTDigger on the current situation. Thank you for your consistent reporting on our issue.
https://vtdigger.org/2026/06/22/across-vermont-networks-of-volunteers-push-back-on-trumps-immigration-enforcement/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSq0LNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeV7O_otE5eV6I--NsZX2xLHwzXyXv-IzJiklDO5DQfX-NeapxolEhjJEBt-4_aem_21Xz2owqW6Bg5wL0KuHanw

From verifying ICE sightings to keeping track of detainees, activists across the state are responding to ICE actions amid a climate of fear.