All the anxiety, all the fear starts just going, said Neighbor, 41, who became a U.S. citizen last year and now works at a Detroit-area hotel. Freedom House is a haven in Detroit for asylum seekers that bills itself as the only facility in the U.S. providing temporary housing, legal aid and other services under one roof and at no charge. In addition to trying to bar nearly all refugees, block travelers from seven Muslim countries, build a wall at the Mexican border and cut funding to immigrant-protecting "sanctuary cities," Trump made it clear in an executive order signed last month that he intends to take a harder line on asylum claims to "end the abuse" of the program. Freedom House was started in 1983 by faith and community organizations to help a flood of refugees fleeing the civil war in El Salvador. The agency recently announced it was cutting the funding as it shifts priorities to permanent housing programs.