In 2003, the first Bantu immigrants began to arrive in U.S. cities, and by 2007, around 13,000 had been resettled to cities throughout the United States with the help of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the U.S. State Department, and refugee resettlement agencies across the country.
在2003年，第一個班圖難民開始到達美國城市，到2007年，13000個難民在美國與聯合國難民署（UNHCR），美國國務院的幫助下已被安置到城市，遍及全國各地。