He knows this part of his journey should be the best one — living in a suburban Seattle apartment, learning English, starting a new job and trying to make friends in a place that has embraced him. ...
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The U.S. has slashed its refugee intake. Syrians fleeing war are most affected.
Mariam Rastanawi fled Homs, Syria, in 2012, hoping to escape a protracted civil war amid fears that remaining in her native country would amount to a death sentence. Seeking refuge in the United States, a country she saw ...
Trump Administration To Close International Offices For Refugee Cases
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services confirmed plans to close its offices abroad to deal with a growing backlog of immigration cases. ...
Stories for Kids About Heroic Young Refugees
I wasn’t equal to imagining what that journey was like. Yet here was this rosy-cheeked boy in a British school uniform, clearly a survivor, sitting in on my author event along with 150 other interested students. I tried ...
I was a refugee. I know Trump is wrong.
President Trump has run a disgraceful and hysterical campaign vilifying illegal immigrants and refugees — two categories that appear indistinguishable to him. ...
The Tree of Life Synagogue victims died so that refugees could live
Anti-Semitism, which is ancient, always appears dressed in the latest fashions. During the Spanish Inquisition, Jew haters latched onto the idea that Jews and Muslims were subverting the true faith. During the Russian po ...
‘It’s time for me to go back’: Deportees join migrant caravan to return to U.S.
They spoke in different accents, fleeing different disasters: joblessness in parts of Honduras, a mounting political crisis in Nicaragua, cities in Guatemala where they were sure their children would languish as they had ...
Stephen King Goes After Donald Trump’s Latest Attack On Immigrants: ‘Jesus, Man’
Horror master Stephen King is calling out President Donald Trump’s latest claims about asylum-seekers. ...
Venezuelan Immigrants Get Trump Sympathy But Not Status
Venezuelans have been flooding into the United States as their home country faces a severe economic and political crisis. ...
The Trump Administration Set a Record-Low Limit for Refugee Admissions. It Let In Half That Number.
A year ago, the Trump administration cut the United States’ annual limit on refugee admissions to the lowest level on record. The 45,000-person cap for the 2018 fiscal year, which ended on Sunday, was less than half the ...
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