Andrew isn't Rohingya, but he works closely with the refugees and co-founded this center.

The Rohingya have been called the most persecuted people in the world, and to kind of grasp what that means, it's decades of rampant persecution, being the poorest people in the poorest state in a very poor country, to have everything taken away except for your spoken language and your religion, because those are very, very difficult to take away unless well, you kill a population or you kick them out entirely, which is what Burmese government is set on doing to the Rohingya people.

But he knows how important Milwaukee is to the Rohingya who live here and those who don't.

Here in Milwaukee, you see the largest grouping of powerful Rohingya that are able to earn money and send money back home to their families that are in dire straits.

They're creating a new capital because they've been kicked out of their homeland, essentially, and repatriation efforts might be decades away, if at all.

Rohingya around the world look at us and look at the Milwaukee Rohingya and say, wow, that's like a beacon of hope.

And to see resettlement numbers get curtailed must be really, really tough.

for many Rohingya that might be waiting to be resettled, or for any hope for their people, for what the future might hold for them and their culture.