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EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER EIGHT

WHEREAS, it is the historic policy of the United States and the state o£ Iowa to provide safe asylum to refuyees who are the victims of war and persecution and who have been forced from their homeland; and

WHEREAS, the state of Iowa, pursuant to the Refuyee Act of 1980 and regulations promulyated by the ).s. Department of Health and Human Services, receives Federal funds for the purpose of coordinating and providing services to refuyees in Iowa, their families and other public and private ayencies serving refugees; and

WHEREAS, the Iowa Refugee Service Center has been the oryaniza—- tion in state yovernment responsible for coordinating and providiny these services in Lowa since 1975.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Terry E. Branstad, Governor of the state o€ Towa, by the power and authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of Iowa,-do hereby formally establish the Lowa Refuyée Service Center with an Executive Director to serve at the pleasure of the Governor to:

I. Coordinate, develop, and implement federal, state and local proyrams which provide resettle- ment services and other social services which promote the economic self-sufficiency and social self-reliance of refuyees and other eligible groups.

II. Provide specialized cultural information and immigration and other services to refuyees, entrants, and immigrants as well as the private individuals, organizations, corporations, and state ayencies whose activities are associated with them,

IN TES'T(MONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Great Seal of the State of Iowa to be affixed. Done at Nes Moines this 27th day of January in the year o€ our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four.

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COURTESY STATE LIBRARY OF IOWA