We're a nation of refugees, by refugees, and for refugees.
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"We need to do better for refugees, all refugees including LGBT refugees," she said.
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For example, 2202,2628 refugees were admitted in 28500; 6900,2628 refugees in 28503; and 22019,223 refugees in 2006.
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Next to the UNRWA Palestinian refugees, there are all other 30 million refugees in the world, UNHCR refugees.
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Like Iraqi refugees, Iranian refugees are a golden example of how refugees yield fantastic benefits for the United States.
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" On refugees: "A responsible approach to refugees is one that seeks the eventual return of refugees to their home nation.
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My journey, as the daughter of refugees, shows what refugees and the children of refugees can create for all Americans.
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All these refugees, refugees aren't just fleeing violence and war.
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AP: LGBTQ refugees are the most vulnerable group of refugees.
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And even after the 120-day ban on refugees is lifted, admitting 872 refugees now will mean admitting 872 fewer refugees later.
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Refugees were barred for 120 days, with Syrian refugees banned indefinitely.
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The glorification of Team Refugees and the vilification of refugees coexist.
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It bans all refugees for 120 days and Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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We had paid all of our attention to delivering resources to refugees, to resettling refugees, on advocacy inside the Beltway on behalf of refugees.
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It also bans all refugees for 120 days and Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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Refugees Canada took in more refugees last year than the United States.
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Their initial plan was a coffee place operated by refugees for refugees.
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And 120 of those waived-in refugees were Muslim — including two Muslim refugees from banned countries — but no Christian refugees from banned countries were allowed.
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Exceptionally, the UN counts all the descendants of Palestinian refugees as refugees themselves.
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Refugees The U.S. is planning to accept up to 73,000 refugees in 2017.
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Turkey returning refugees to Syria, and refugees from the Bahamas arriving in Florida.
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It claimed that, contrary to the status of all other refugees since World War II, the descendants of Palestinians, declared refugees in 1948, are not themselves refugees.
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The order banned refugees outside of Syria for 120 days, and Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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In our rush to support and humanize refugees, we paint refugees as universally deserving.
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The uncertainty faced by refugees has created enormous stress for refugees, including Farhad's mother.
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He is also the legal affairs director at Urban Refugees, a French organization that works to increase awareness of refugees living in cities and helps refugees learn skills.
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Lebanon has more than 1 million Syrian refugees now living within its borders; more than 600,000 Syrian refugees are in Jordan (and many more Syrian nationals who are not technically considered refugees), and there are more than 2.5 million Syrian refugees in Turkey.
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While many of the top nations that resettle refugees have seen a drop-off (Canada, second to the US, saw 22017,000 fewer refugees resettled in 2016 compared to 2017), the US had 64,000 fewer refugees in 2017 than it did in 1003 when the US accepted about 97,000 refugees, according to UN High Commissioner for Refugees data.
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India has hosted many refugees from neighboring countries over the years but it has no law to define refugees and the status of the Sri Lankan refugees remains ambiguous.
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In Asia, Australia has partnered with other nations to keep refugees from their shores, particularly Rohingya refugees from Burma and Afghan, Iraqi, and Syrian refugees from the Middle East.
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Sponsored by Urban Librarians Unite, "Libraries Serve Refugees" offers toolkits for librarians to assist refugees and shares information about libraries making refugees feel a part of their new communities.
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The order suspended refugees from entering the U.S. for 120 days, with Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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It also suspends the admission of all refugees for 120 days and Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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If you have got refugees in their communities, figure out who locally is helping refugees.
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The order also barred resettlement of refugees for 120 days and indefinitely banned Syrian refugees.
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I come from a family of refugees, and I've dedicated my life to helping refugees.
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"You cannot accommodate refugees unless the leaders have a good attitude towards refugees," he says.
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It also halts the acceptance of refugees for 120 days, and refugees from Syria indefinitely.
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The perpetrators of these acts were not refugees, they just followed the movement of refugees.
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Other refugees trudged toward Passenger Terminal No. 5 — but sleeping refugees already filled the room.
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He also indefinitely banned refugees from Syria and temporarily banned refugees from all other countries.
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There are thousands of former refugees and children of refugees in the United States military.
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The state has brought in 2124,23 refugees in the last 22 years: 21849,26 Syrian refugees.
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It also suspended entry of all refugees for 120 days and barred Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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It halted admission of Syrian refugees indefinitely and that of other refugees for 120 days.
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It is run by refugees, and is a place other refugees can learn to cook.
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It also suspends entry of all refugees for 120 days and bars Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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Many diverse ideas took flight — an Airbnb for refugees, a group messaging service for refugees without smartphones or internet, and apps to connect refugees to locals for advice and support.
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What type of refugees they are, whether they are coming as refugees or second-generation refugee?
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Trump's executive order suspended the intake of all refugees for 120 days and Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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Can you talk more about how HIAS evolved from helping Jewish refugees to helping refugees, period?
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Trump's order also blocked all refugees from entering 120 days and indefinitely halts refugees from Syria.
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Here's some of the things refugees have against them: * Most refugees are not allowed to work.
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Lebanon is hosting 976,000 registered Syrian refugees, according to the U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).
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It also bars refugees from entering the country for 120 days and indefinitely for Syrian refugees.
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Milan, ISPI holds meeting on refugees with U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi (1600 GMT).
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The refugees caught en route to Australia are some the least connected refugees in the world.
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"We already have great-great-grandchildren of refugees who are not refugees," he said in January.
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Saudi refugees on the rise The number of Saudi refugees globally has increased in recent years.
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But that's not a big dip compared to refugees from the rest of the world from 22018 to 245: a 2000 percent reduction in refugees from Latin America and the Caribbean; a 20173 percent reduction in refugees from Africa; a 22017 percent reduction in refugees from East Asia; and a 2120 percent reduction in refugees from the Near East and South Asia.
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As stated by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees ''refugees should not be penalized for their illegal entry or stay… the seeking of asylum can require refugees to breach immigration rules.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Embracing Refugees, Then Letting Go" ("Refugees Welcome" series, front page, March 26): It's with a sense of shame that I read about Canadians sponsoring Syrian refugees.
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Refugees The number of refugees and displaced people on the planet has hit an all-time high.
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His executive order bans all refugees from entering the US for 120 days, and Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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He is also providing food for refugees in Greece and France and medical care for Syrian refugees.
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At least 35 refugees died ten days ago off Turkey's Aegean coast, when boats carrying refugees capsized.
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Wars create refugees, and President Obama both in Syria and in Libya backed conflicts which created refugees.
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It also indefinitely halts the acceptance of refugees from Syria and blocks all refugees for 120 days.
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Brazil has admitted about 2,163 Syrian refugees, according to the National Committee for Refugees, a government agency.
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Obama remains committed to his plan to admit 28500,6900 refugees in 2628 and 28503,22019 refugees in 2017.
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The administration reduced the "cap" on refugees the fiscal 6900 to 2628,28503, but only resettled 22019,491 refugees.
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A million refugees would represent a massive influx of people, but 65,000 carefully screened refugees does not.
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"If you're designing for refugees, you should have refugees with you at the table," Ms. Dajani said.
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Jordan has accepted more than 630,000 Syrian refugees registered with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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It indefinitely suspended the admission of Syrian refugees and temporarily halted the entrance of all other refugees.
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Refugees come from some surprising places 2000 saw a record number of Muslim refugees being let into the US. However refugees in general come from several different backgrounds and parts of the world.
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The iris scans of 2.3 million refugees registered by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the Middle East, coursing through centralized databases, are used to identify refugees attempting to access government benefits.
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And though Trump often demonized refugees, the Mormon Church launched an effort to help refugees earlier this year.
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" Refugees Refugees are defined as someone who "has been forced to flee" because of "persecution, war, or violence.
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Buses brought refugees from Chernobyl into Kyiv, carrying additional radiation on the refugees' bodies and on their possessions.
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Some European companies have started hiring refugees directly or using profits to help refugees start their own businesses.
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Turkey is already the largest host to refugees in the world, with three million refugees in the country.
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Refugees were more likely to be skilled workers (38%) than non-refugees (933%) or the foreign-born (35%).
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Refugees are still barred for 120 days, but an indefinite ban on all refugees from Syria was deleted.
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Refugees are still barred for 120 days, but an indefinite ban on all refugees from Syria was dropped.
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The photographers experienced almost no resistance from refugees as they photographed the refugees and asked about their experiences.
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Nearly all us in Hong Kong who are Chinese are refugees or the descendants of refugees from China.
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What connections can you make between the chart and refugees in Bangladesh, or refugees anywhere in the world?
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The ban, blocked in federal court, would have barred all refugees for 120 days, and Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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We fled as refugees, and, like most refugees, we left behind many things, including almost all our photographs.
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Refugees are not resettled to a third country lightly — less than 1 percent of refugees globally are resettled.
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And Venezuelan refugees are sorely taxing their neighbors' economies, as Syrian refugees have impacted their Middle Eastern neighbors.
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Refugees Trump praised Jordan, Turkey, and Lebanon for their role in taking in refugees from Syria's civil war.
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Israel and Jordan — which already hosts over 666,000 U.N. registered refugees — say they will not let refugees in.
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"Refugees are much more welcomed when we have gone and selected them ourselves as a country, as opposed to refugees who have chosen us," said Janet Dench, executive director of Canadian Council for Refugees.
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In 2014, the government budgeted $582 million to resettle 70,000 refugees; Clinton's proposal to resettle 65,000 refugees would add 55,000 refugees to that 70,000 cap, which amounts to about $450 million in additional funding.
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U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said that the Global Forum on Refugees had broadened responsibility-sharing for 25.9 million refugees who have fled war and persecution, mainly exiled in poor neighboring countries.
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The United States took in 813,113 resettled refugees in 2018, leading 27 countries who resettled a total of 24,2861 refugees under programs run by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, the UNHCR said on Tuesday.
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As the UN High Commissioner of Refugees states clearly in its 2018 Global Compact on Refugees, enabling refugees to earn incomes is far better than giving them aid, as it creates self-reliance and choice.
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Turkey hosts the largest number of refugees in the world, with 3.6 million registered Syrian nationals in 2018 and 40,000 refugees and asylum-seekers of other nationalities, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
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She is now the vice-president and co-founder of Refugees Helping Refugees, a Rochester-based nonprofit that, among other services, helps Western New York refugees renegotiate the terms of their loans with billing agencies.
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However, the US does not classify all LGBT refugees as any more vulnerable than other refugees, the official said.
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The life of Syrian refugees in Berlin The life of Syrian refugees in Berlin This segment originally aired Nov.
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It also prevents entry for all refugees for 120 days and indefinitely halts the admission of refugees from Syria.
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The top 5 destinations for refugees in 2017 were: Turkey: 3.5 million refugees were in the country in 2017.
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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in March that many Venezuelans qualify as refugees under international law.
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"The villagers think the refugees are jihadists, and the refugees think the villagers are Assad supporters," says Mr Delibas.
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According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees currently live in Pakistan.
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Although the new stoves, made by the refugees, were initially designed for the refugees, villagers have also embraced them.
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The new executive order also closes America's borders to refugees, and halts the arrival of all Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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But refugees are refugees; a home lost, the same journeys across strange lands, crossing borders, uncertainty, waiting in camps.
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Refugees have insisted that East Lorengau was unsafe and that refugees there have been robbed and attacked with machetes.
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Any scheme seems likely to miss most refugees while harassing enough dark-skinned non-refugees to guarantee a backlash.
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Only 229 refugees were resettled in Utica in 2017, about half the number of refugees resettled the previous year.
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Opinion A citizenship law helps non-Muslim refugees from Muslim-majority countries but ignores Muslim refugees from other nations.
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Last year, more than 74,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Greece, according to the United Nations refugees agency UNHCR.
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How does Daniel Victor's article compare responses to Jewish refugees in the 1930s with responses to Syrian refugees today?
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UNHCR officials said the majority of LGBT+ refugees were receiving financial assistance in line with other vulnerable urban refugees.
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It also issued a 120-day ban on all refugees entering the U.S. and halted admission of Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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Have you found that American Jews still understand refugees as a "Jewish issue," even when the refugees themselves aren't Jewish?
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According to the Pew Research Center, in 21975 the United States brought in 22016,521 Christian refugees and 38,901 Muslims refugees.
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These countries represent a tiny number of new refugees Trump's initial executive order included an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees.
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Starbucks' outgoing CEO Howard Schultz vowed to hire 10,000 refugees globally, and to refugees not allowed in the United States.
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For refugees, Trump has one Senate-confirmed position, the State Department's Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration.
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Freedom of movement means refugees are not warehoused for indefinite periods; refugees have a considerable degree of dignity and independence.
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So Muslim refugees from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya are barred, but Christian refugees are not.
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Refugees' median personal income ($20,000) equalled that of non-refugees and exceeded the income of the foreign-born overall ($18,700).
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To avoid conflict, LGBT refugees would wait until all the other refugees had eaten to go get their own meals.
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The order also includes a 120-day halt on admitting refugees and an indefinite pause on admitting refugees from Syria.
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The order also halts admitting refugees for 120 days, as well as indefinitely suspends accepting refugees from war-torn Syria.
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The order also includes a 120-day ban on accepting refugees and an indefinite halt on admitting refugees from Syria.
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The order also includes a 120-day ban on admitting refugees and an indefinite halt on admitting refugees from Syria.
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Refugees are still barred for 120 days, but the new order removed an indefinite ban on all refugees from Syria.
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This year's dinner benefits UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which protects and assists refugees around the world.
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Canada's refugee target for 2017 is 40,21625 refugees, and refugees are screened and selected abroad before they come to Canada.
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It reduced the 2017 target for resettled refugees to 25,000 from 44,800 in 2016, when it welcomed 25,000 Syrian refugees.
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With 85033,000 refugees settled in the United States, Myanmar accounts for over 25 percent of the United States' new refugees.
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It is the first time the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Libya has evacuated refugees directly to Europe.
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Yet the Obama administration has been adamant that the number of Syrian refugees — and Muslim refugees generally — must increase substantially.
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And those drops were even steeper among refugees — even though refugees were still eligible for benefits under the new law.
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Syria accounts for 22015 percent of the world's 285 million refugees recognized by the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees.
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Since then, the number of refugees has more than doubled, according to a UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report.
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It's not entirely shocking that Texas would decide not to accept refugees, given its previous attempt to reject Syrian refugees.
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The order also included a 120-day halt on admitting refugees and an indefinite stop to admitting refugees from Syria.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees puts the number of registered Christian refugees from Iraq at around 15 percent.
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It no longer categorically bars Syrian refugees or includes a religious test to determine which refugees may enter the country.
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The order also included a 85033-day ban on admitting refugees and an indefinite halt on admitting refugees from Syria.
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This classification process is inconsistent with how all other refugees in the world are classified, including the definition used by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) and the laws concerning refugees in the United States.
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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Joint Special Representative for Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants, Eduardo Stein, has estimated that addressing refugees' needs will require $3,000 per refugee per year (almost $1.4 billion per year at current levels).
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Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Anne Richard said additional U.S. personnel had been deployed to vet refugees overseas and that many other refugees had already been vetted and were awaiting resettlement.
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France urges U.K. to accept more child refugees from Calais France urges U.K. to accept more child refugees from Calais French President François Hollande has personally asked British Prime Minister Theresa May to take in 1,500 child refugees.
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While America certainly favors certain refugees based on their existing ties to the US, the idea of selecting refugees based on what they can offer America is a fundamental rejection of selecting refugees based on what they need.
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Following a Gay Pride event in Kakuma in June, there have been a spate of attacks on LGBT+ refugees who make up just 170 of the more than 180,000 refugees at the camp, say refugees and the UNHCR.
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And Muslim immigrants, Syrian refugees, and any other potential refugees or migrants may unfairly get labeled as "them" in the aftermath.
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It temporarily closes the U.S. to all refugees and all people from seven majority-Muslim countries and bars Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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Merkley speaks on immigration policy and refugees Senator Jeff Merkley speaks on immigration policy and refugees following meeting with ICE detainees.
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In terms of refugees, last month Trump stated he will "absolutely do safe zones in Syria," for refugees fleeing the violence.
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Test Five: ISIS and the refugees crisis Terrorism and refugees will be at the top of your agenda from day one.
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World turns its back on refugees, atrocities Refugees are among the first victims of this new world order, according to Amnesty.
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The order on immigration banned refugees from entering the US for 120 days, and established an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees.
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Canada has advised UNHCR, the UN's agency for refugees, not to refer any refugees in polygamous marriages to Canada for resettlement.
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That program helps 222,000 young refugees each month, and the goal is to reach 3 million refugees by the year 2025.
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Because the UN deems the descendants of Palestinian refugees to be refugees, too, their number has swelled to more than 5m.
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The obvious difference is that these were European refugees, not Syrian refugees, and in that sense they were much more assimilable.
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Syrian refugees will now be treated like other refugees and be subjected to the 120-day suspension of the refugee program.
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All refugees are equal Another major shift in the new order is that it removes the indefinite restrictions on Syrian refugees.
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Trump's original order also imposed a 120-day ban on admitting refugees and an indefinite halt on admitting refugees from Syria.
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The order also decrees a 2628-day ban on admitting any refugees and an indefinite halt on accepting refugees from Syria.
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On Friday he said that, once the temporary ban on refugees is lifted, he intends to favor Christian refugees over Muslims.
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Last year, the UNHCR identified more than 1.1 million refugees from among the world's 22.5 million refugees in need of resettlement.
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The Bangladesh government wants the Rohingya refugees to return to Myanmar, and at least one transit camp is ready for refugees.
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Pope Francis urged communities to welcome migrants and refugees during a special Mass on the World Day of Migrants and Refugees.
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The integration of Vietnamese refugees into Canadian society has served as a blueprint for the country's welcoming of 31,000 Syrian refugees.
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More than 3,300 migrants and refugees are on Lesbos, an island of mainly Greek refugees who fled Turkey in the 1920s.
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The initial order also called for a 120-day ban on admitting refugees and an indefinite suspension on resettling Syrian refugees.
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Historically, the US has been a leader in taking refugees: it's generally taken half of all refugees resettled around the world.
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Klara: They pick and choose how they report on refugees, and use refugees to tell the story they are looking for.
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The new version still limits travel and temporarily bans refugees, but reportedly excludes Iraq and the extra restrictions against Syrian refugees.
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And Muslim immigrants, Syrian refugees and any other potential refugees or migrants may unfairly get labeled as "them" in the aftermath.
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Mattresses were kept on board for rescued refugees, and the captain took photographs of the refugees to post on the ship.
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The order also calls for a 120-day ban on admitting refugees and an indefinite halt on accepting refugees from Syria.
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As a result of this failed policy, a population of about 750,000 Palestinian refugees grew to become 5 million Palestinian refugees.
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The novel implicitly asks these readers why doors should be closed to refugees, when those readers might become refugees one day?
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The US isn't simply suspending the approval of refugees — it's suspending every part of the process by which it vets refugees.
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"Like immigrants who came here before, these refugees are driven to succeed," stated Shelly Callahan, executive director of the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees, a nonprofit group founded in 1981 as an affiliate of Lutheran Immigration and Refugees Service, one of nine resettlement agencies in the United States designated by the U.N. Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Given that the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Refugees — the primary referrer of refugees to the US — said in a statement that "over 800 refugees were set to make the United States their home," this could mean that the Trump administration is allowing most of the refugees it had accepted for this week to come.
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One such startup is Austria-based online jobs platform Refugees Work, which was founded back in November and soft launched around two weeks ago — taking registrations from employers wanting to hire refugees and refugees wanting to find local work.
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Trump's executive order banned entry into the United States to refugees and citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days and all refugees for 120 days, except refugees from Syria, who were banned indefinitely.
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"Money paid by refugees to smugglers not only helps to fund Islamic State activities, but refugees are signed up to support IS in exchange for their travel," said Rosalind Ereira, founder of charity Solidarity with Refugees, in a statement.
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Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan are home to the highest numbers of Syrian refugees in the world, hosting 3.3 million, 1 million and 655,000 refugees as of December 2017, respectively, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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It hosts 37,000 refugees from the ongoing instability in Mali, along with 138,000 refugees or people internally displaced fleeing Boko Haram attacks.
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Trump on Friday also suspended the entry of all refugees for 120 days, along with indefinitely suspending the entry of Syrian refugees.
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Admission of Syrian refugees has been stopped indefinitely, while entry of all refugees to the United States is suspended for 120 days.
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In May 20113, two Iraqi refugees were arrested in Kentucky on terrorism charges, the only two Iraqi refugees ever linked to terror.
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Although respondents favored companies that helped refugees, they were less clear over whether brands should lobby for more refugees to enter Europe.
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Worries about unemployed refugees have been masked by the recent strong performance of Sweden's economy—ironically boosted by increased spending on refugees.
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Many voters are worried about an influx of Syrian refugees, but the US has accepted far fewer refugees than other Western countries.
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The original order also called for a 120-day ban on admitting refugees and an indefinite halt on admitting refugees from Syria.
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The order also included a 120-day ban on admitting refugees and an indefinite halt on admitting refugees from war-torn Syria.
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The order also placed a 120-day halt on admitting refugees and an indefinite halt on admitting refugees from war-torn Syria.
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The order also included a 120-day ban on admitting refugees and an indefinite halt on admitting refugees from war-ravaged Syria.
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Fear of refugees is particularly pronounced in Germany's formerly Communist east, where there are far fewer refugees than in the country's west.
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"You can't really pin this on refugees in general and say, 'Oh, all refugees are responsible and must be feared,' " he said.
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The order also includes a 120-day ban on admitting refugees and an indefinite halt on admitting refugees from war-torn Syria.
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Homes in Baqa'a, a community where more than 100,000 Palestinian refugees (and some Syrian refugees) live, the majority under the poverty line.
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Many refugees now have "zero hope" to enter Europe since Macedonia closed its borders and Turkey stopped allowing refugees to travel west.
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Some refugees were invisible or "stateless" in their homeland even before displacement, like Rohingya from Myanmar and many Sub-Saharan African refugees.
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Refugees would be handed over to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which runs a transit center in Kathmandu, he said.
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The order also calls for a 120-ban on admitting refugees and an indefinite halt on admitting refugees from war-torn Syria.
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The order also imposed a 120-day halt on admitting refugees and an indefinite halt on admitting refugees from war-torn Syria.
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In 13, the United States admitted almost as many Christian refugees (37,521) as Muslim refugees (38,901), according to the Pew Research Center.
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They anticipate resettling around 2,400 refugees this fiscal year, down from the roughly 6,20193 refugees World Relief placed in fiscal year 2016.
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Last year, Texas resettled 2,230 refugees, taking in the largest number of refugees compared to other states, according to State Department statistics.
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Last year, 37,521 Christian refugees came to the United States, as well as 38,901 Muslim refugees, according to the Pew Research Center.
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The U.S. resettled nearly 85,85003 refugees in fiscal 2016, while former President Obama set a goal of admitting 110,000 refugees in 2017.
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"The countries in Central America aren't safe to return refugees to," said Yael Schacher, an advocate with Refugees International, in an interview.
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She has worked with refugees for almost a decade and is currently writing a book about refugees in the throes of resettlement.
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Days of protests included Christians who have worked or volunteered with Christian nonprofits who help acclimate refugees to the US. Trump says US will prioritize Christian refugees America's Christian community has a long history of resettling refugees in the United States.
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Despite all of the panic from Trump and Breitbart News about ISIS members sneaking in as refugees, this kind of thing is incredibly rare (partly because of the intense vetting that refugees, and Syrian refugees in particular, are put through).
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It's more common for L.G.B.T. refugees to continue to hide their sexual identities and to lie about the reasons for seeking asylum, said Patrick Dörr, who runs Queer Refugees, a German state-sponsored program for L.G.B.T. refugees coming to Germany.
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Furthermore, the ruling undoes the government's temporary ban on refugees — it tells the government not to enforce the sections of the order that ban refugees from the US for the next 120 days, and Syrian refugees from the US indefinitely.
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The feelings can be reduced by increasing public knowledge about refugees, including about the rigorous vetting processes through which refugees must go to be admitted to the U.S., and the positive contributions refugees make in the communities in which they resettle.
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Refugees recommended for resettlement in the United States first undergo screening abroad, by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Most notably, she has worked as a Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and recently spoke for Syrian refugees.
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Before 211, three refugees had successfully carried out terrorist attacks; all three were Cuban refugees, and a total of three people were killed.
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Syrian refugees will now be treated like refugees from other countries and be subjected to a 120-day suspension of the refugee program.
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" She said that efforts to aid refugees were "drastically underfunded" and that the system to deal with refugees was beginning to "break down.
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Myanmar has said 3,450 refugees have been cleared for repatriation on August 22 but many refugees fear violence and refuse to go back.
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President Barack Obama pledged to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees, but as of last month the U.S. had only admitted about 1,300 refugees.
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Nearly 80,000 refugees and asylum-seekers are registered in the capital, where there are some opportunities to work, but little assistance for refugees.
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It also blocked Syrian refugees indefinitely, as well as the entry of all international refugees into the country for the next 120 days.
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When asked about the misconceptions Americans have of refugees, Subedi says people tell him that America needs to find more refugees like him.
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Last year, more than 74,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Greece, among them 3,500 children, according to the United Nations refugees agency UNHCR.
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Most refugees wait months or even years for consultations, but De Lange and her staff began interviewing the 23 LGBT refugees within weeks.
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Last September, some of the LGBT refugees formed a soccer team, but the other refugees forbid them from competing in the camp league.
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In making the case for refugees by proving their good intentions, we put all refugees at the mercy of the few bad apples.
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Some European countries, like Hungary, simply don't want to admit large numbers of refugees — so they're building walls and penning up refugees indefinitely.
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But the relocation scheme has flopped too: many countries want nothing to do with refugees, and refugees have no interest in most countries.
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The order also called for a 120-day halt on admitting refugees and an indefinite halt on admitting refugees from war-torn Syria.
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Germany has pledged to take in hundreds of thousands of refugees, and Canada has admitted nearly 30,000 Syrian refugees since late last year.
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The order also includes a 120-day ban on admitting any refugees and an indefinite stop on accepting refugees from war-torn Syria.
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He thinks Polish refugees after World War Two may have had an easier time than modern day refugees given the shared war experiences.
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The U.S. is accepting 10,000 refugees from Syria, and Obama wants the nation to accept 21625,2900 refugees from around the world next year.
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Founded in November during the height of the crisis, Austria-based Refugees Work helps refugees find jobs by creating profiles on its platform.
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The order also called for a 85033-day ban on admitting refugees and an indefinite halt on admitting refugees from war-torn Syria.
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In June, Pakistan extended Afghan refugees' right to stay until December 2016, but restrictions and harassment have grown, say refugees and the UNHCR.
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Overall, 66% said their governments should be doing more to help refugees while 80% said they would accept refugees living in their country.
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said the Saudi teenager's plight had highlighted the precarious situation faced by millions of refugees worldwide.
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Americans at large have long been reluctant to accept refugees, and a national majority favored suspending immigration from terror prone regions, including refugees.
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The order also puts a 120-day ban on admitting refugees and an indefinite halt on Syrian refugees coming to the United States.
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Southern congressmen opposed taking in even the most desperate refugees from Europe as vehemently as Trump supporters wish to exclude Syrian refugees today.
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But advocates for refugees note that the Orlando shooter was born in the U.S. and that banning refugees wouldn't have stopped the attacks.
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For refugees: The Europeans who have a stake in Syria will likely be affected, too, potentially "because of spillover" of refugees, Dalton said.
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Every hiccup in this process becomes a news story, causing many Americans to believe that Somali refugees are "typical" refugees, when they're not.
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Christians made up 45 percent of all refugees in 2016, and the number of Christian refugees has been rising steadily for several years.
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The United Nations named Utica "the town that loves refugees," as it has resettled more than 16,000 refugees over the past three decades.
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The East African immigrants in Minneapolis are both refugees and non-refugees, and they come from countries like Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya.
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According to the Pew Research Center, almost as many Christian refugees (37,521) were admitted as Muslim refugees (38,901) in the 2016 fiscal year.
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With over 22 million refugees worldwide, any search of the internet would reveal pictures of suffering refugees that would move the hardest heart.
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According to the Pew Research Center, almost as many Christian refugees (37,521) were admitted as Muslim refugees (38,901) in the 23 fiscal year.
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The United Nations high commissioner for refugees estimated that 20,000 refugees from all over the world would be affected immediately by the ban.
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"Refugees, especially Muslims refugees, are really feeling unwelcome now," said Mark Hetfield, the chief executive of HIAS, one of the national resettlement agencies.
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" In 2011, UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness wrote that "Palestinian refugees continue to be refugees because the issues which caused their exile remain outstanding.
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According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, more than four million Syrians are refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq.
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But the fight over how many refugees to admit or how best to vet those refugees obscures what the debate is really about.
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Help Refugees has noted that it took the government eight months to announce the number of child refugees it was willing to help.
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Well, let me tell you on the refugees, it was my audience that paid the $16 million that took care of those refugees.
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Since the federal government cannot guarantee that all of the Muslim refugees it admits into the United States have no terrorist sympathies, she said, Christian refugees should take priority, while Muslim refugees should be sent to "safe spaces" elsewhere in the Middle East.
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There are three factors that make refugees a high-risk population: More men are getting infected than women; refugees have limited access to hygiene and health care systems; and refugees are highly mobile communities often operating under pressure from smugglers and police.
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Trump signed an executive order on Friday to block refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S. Syrian refugees were indefinitely banned.
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There isn't much tourism in the places where refugees land on Lesbos, where many of the refugees were arriving to, so Kos was fascinating.
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Refugees are barred for 120 days and refugees from Syria are barred indefinitely, though those barriers can be lifted on a case by case.
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Supporting refugees means advocating for the continuation of the resettlement program and pointing out the facts about refugees to local, state, and federal lawmakers.
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But in Kenya, home to one of the largest refugee populations on the planet, tens of thousands of registered refugees aren't refugees at all.
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There are about 59,000 Rohingya refugees registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Malaysia although unofficial numbers are almost double.
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Her ebook, Refugees in the Bible: Understanding Today's Refugee Crisis, takes a deep dive, detailing several Bible characters who would be labeled refugees today.
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According to the charity Help Refugees, there were 8,143 refugees and migrants in Calais prior to the dismantling of the camp beginning on Monday.
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Refugees are transferred from the Norwegian border crossing station at Storskog to the refugees arrival centre after crossing the border from Russia on Nov.
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Video footage posted online shows the crowd surrounding the bus with the refugees inside, yelling out slurs and hindering the refugees from getting off.
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In a release, UNHCR commended the development of Team Refugees, saying it sends an essential message of support to all refugees with disabilities worldwide.
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Trump's executive order temporarily barred travelers from the seven Muslim-majority countries and all refugees, except refugees from Syria whom he would ban indefinitely.
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Refugees arrive by train at the transit center for refugees near northern Macedonian village of Tabanovce, before continuing their journey to Serbia on Jan.
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Refugees and people in conflict zones are vulnerable to trafficking, advocates say, and ISIS has been documented putting refugees into various forms of slavery.
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The U.N. High Commission for Refugees said 67,057 refugees were permanently repatriated in August, up from 12,962 the month before and 1,250 in June.
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While India does not have specific legislation governing the status of refugees, the country has a history of accepting refugees in times of crisis.
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" Refugees International, an advocacy group, said the decision amounted to "a new and near-total ban on admission of refugees from 11 nationality groups.
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Arduous screening processes for refugees ensure this, as does the basic fact that nearly all refugees (like the rest of us) are not terrorists.
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It also depends on the conditions in refugees' home countries: the international-legal principle of non-refoulement prohibits the returning of refugees into danger.
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The country succeeded only after the refugees' digital cash system was in place — an example of locals benefiting in some ways from hosting refugees.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced this month that it needs $2628 million to assist Syrian refugees in Jordan for 28500.
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This is so even though many of the UNRWA "refugees" are not actually refugees at all under the standard international definition of that term.
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It's unclear exactly where the refugees Saka was involved with were coming from, but Shaleta said Saka dealt mainly with Iraqi and Syrian refugees.
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Refugees are still halted from entering the country for 120 days, but the new order removed an indefinite ban on all refugees from Syria.
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These refugees do not fit the profile of Iraqi refugees, and indeed are the group that has the most in common with asylum-seekers.
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David Apollo Kazungu, commissioner for refugees in the Office of the Prime Minister, said no Rwandan refugees had been forcibly returned to their country.
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Most recently, he temporarily banned all refugees from entering the U.S. — and Syrian refugees idefinitely — as well as immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries.
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At a time when much of the rich world has turned against refugees, Uganda has quietly accepted more than one million South Sudan refugees.
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It is refusing to open its borders to the refugees now trying to enter from Turkey, which hosts about 3.6 million refugees from Syria.
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Turkey has also told refugees that its borders with Europe are open, allowing refugees to travel by land or sea to Greece or Bulgaria.
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Zynab's death comes at a time when Australia is hotly debating whether there is a connection between refugees and terrorism, not refugees and success.
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Voters seem to like the idea of providing sanctuary to refugees, especially if they can be convinced that the refugees aren't gaming the system.
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The number of refugees worldwide approximately doubled between 2012 and 2018 to more than 20 million, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Last year, the U.S. resettled 13,255 refugees in August, the highest monthly number in a year that brought 85,000 refugees to the United States.
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Since 2012, 200,000 more refugees have come, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, creating an unofficial camp alongside the official one.
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And because the government ensures that spending on refugees benefits Ugandans as well, younger residents spoke of how refugees offered them some unexpected opportunities.
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Jared Kushner has also argued that the money spent on bringing refugees into the U.S. would be better spent helping countries already hosting refugees.
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" Refugees International, an advocacy group, said the decision amounted to "a new and near-total ban on admission of refugees from 11 nationality groups.
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We cannot improve this reality by partial responses, by responding to some crises and not others, or by helping some refugees and not others – for instance, by excluding Afghan refugees, among other groups – or by making a distinction between refugees on grounds of religion.
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"Political populism, xenophobia, racism, in which refugees become a target, many times being accused of being part of the terror threat when refugees are not terrorists -- they are the first victims of terror, they are fleeing terror; that is why they are refugees," Guterres said.
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"Climate refugees—people forced to leave their country due to impacts of climate change—are not officially recognized as genuine refugees under current international laws," said Marine Franck, an official in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, at the press conference.
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He added that the long screening process for Syrian refugees makes it unlikely that terrorists would try to come to the United States as refugees.
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Turkey remains the country with the largest number of Syrian refugees, but tiny Lebanon holds the highest concentration per capita of refugees in the world.
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Even when these organizations employ refugees as outreach workers, it's rare to find a health system that is entirely founded, operated, and staffed by refugees.
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Refugees begin a new life: If everything works out fine, the State Department assigns refugees to an NGO that helps them find work and housing.
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Refugees have an array of rights and protections under international law overseen by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, created following World War Two.
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Meanwhile, a "Refugees Welcome" protest has erupted at John F. Kennedy Airport today following the detainment of two Iraqi refugees, reports NBC News New York.
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The United National High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has also assisted defectors like Díaz to get settled and to begin processing their paperwork as refugees.
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Why is the distinction between migrants and refugees so important, and why do refugees have a stronger claim upon host societies for aid and sanctuary?
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Like SINGA, Refugees at Home's solicits volunteer hosts online and matches them with refugees, based on the location of their home and other personal preferences.
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Many of the Vietnamese refugees facing deportation fled to the US as war refugees and have not stepped foot in Vietnam since they were children.
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UN asks Australia to take more refugees Secretary-General Ban personally urged the Australian government in November 2015 to recognize its international obligations toward refugees.
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The prison's original capacity is 2,000, but it's now housing an estimated 7,000 refugees, according to both NGO workers on site and refugees living inside.
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In the first eight months of this fiscal year a measly 2000 Syrian refugees and 223 South Sudanese refugees were resettled in the United States.
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The result, they say, is a triple win: for refugees; for host economies; and for rich countries to which the refugees otherwise might swarm chaotically.
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Amnesty surveyed people in 27 countries — 27,000 people overall — about how they felt about refugees and how comfortable they'd be with refugees settling near them.
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This is an opinion piece from Refugees Welcome, a coalition of humanitarian, religious, and non-profit organizations working together to create welcoming communities for refugees.
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Kapoor's other chosen charities are the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees (MFA), HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), Help Refugees and Hillel International.
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The kingdom, already burdened with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing war-torn Syria, fear a spillover of refugees along the border if fighting escalates.
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More refugees means more need for international aid and protection — especially from rich countries, since 86 percent of refugees are housed in the developing world.
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Refugees Lebanon and Jordan are hosting proportionally more refugees than Turkey, but most seem to be staying in those two countries once they get there.
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Founded in the Autumn of 2015, Finland-based Startup Refugees identifies skilled workers and entrepreneurs from the thousands of refugees (who are mostly adult males).
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" Thousands of refugees flee across border Islam said his team of border guards are intercepting Rohingya refugees arriving in Bangladesh to "prevent the illegal intrusion.
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The UNHCR, as the custodian of a legal framework that relies on a careful distinction between refugees and others, preferred the phrase "refugees and migrants".
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It also put a temporary 120-day ban on all refugees entering the country with an indefinite ban placed on refugees from war-torn Syria.
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William Spindler, a spokesman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, noted that most newly arrived refugees do not commit crimes.
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In a poll a few months earlier, almost half of Australians (43%) said they did not believe refugees who arrive by boat were "genuine" refugees.
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Refugees traveling into the U.S. on Friday night were being detained at airports after President Trump's executive order immediately closed the nation's borders to refugees.
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This year, we have already accepted 11,491 Syrian refugees - fifteen percent more than the Administration's original goal of 10,000 refugees by the end of September.
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Thus Turkey, which housed 2.5m mostly Syrian migrants in 2015, is the biggest host of refugees, followed by Pakistan where nearly all refugees were Afghans.
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Chobani and the other companies working with refugees are not exploiting them, said Jennifer Patterson, project director for the Partnership for Refugees, a federal program.
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Within days of Turkey's recent announcement that it would no longer block refugees from attempting to reach Europe, thousands of refugees fled to the border.
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A majority of Gaza's two million residents are either refugees of the 1948 war that broke out over Israel's creation, or descendants of those refugees.
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Her refugee experience mirrored stories featured in The Times, like one about refugees welcomed in Canada or another about refugees fleeing to Turkey in boats.
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Nor will it call for a "fair and just solution" for Palestinian refugees, though it will offer steps to deal with the issue of refugees.
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And he has pushed for the repatriation of Afghan refugees to keep militants from hiding in the country by mingling with refugees in settlement camps.
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Facing a crisis at the end of World War II, the United Nations created a position to oversee global refugees: the high commissioner for refugees.
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"Our region, a top destination for refugees in the world, is proof that welcoming refugees contributes to economic success and strong, safe communities," she said.
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The city expects to host about 25 more refugees by the end of September and 150 refugees over roughly the next 12 months, she said.
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The U.S. admitted 2451,22004 Iraqi refugees in fiscal year 2199, but let in only 140 Iraqi refugees in fiscal year 2018 and 465 last year.
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Further escalation will lead to these refugees, and hundreds of thousands of new Lebanese refugees, to scatter across the already unstable Middle East and Europe.
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So consider giving some of your December dollars to those providing for refugees, or even the refugees themselves (as Give Directly has been experimenting with).
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Mr. Scull also runs an aid organization to help shelter Venezuelan refugees, and plans to focus on helping refugees who have fled Venezuela's economic collapse.
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HIAS Philadelphia has gotten some local landlords to open up affordable housing for refugees — but now they don't have refugees to put in those houses.
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Leaked report contradicts Trump's claim about the cost of refugees Leaked report contradicts Trump's claim about the cost of refugees President Donald Trump told the U.N. on Tuesday that it's too expensive for the U.S. to resettle refugees, but VICE News has obtained a study from his own administration that shows refugees generate tens of billions worth of long-term economic value for the country.
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Though Jolie first focused on Cambodian refugees, she has since advocated for all refugees around the world and visited a Syrian refugee camp earlier this year.
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The executive order bans refugees for 120 days — and Syrian refugees indefinitely — and suspends the entry of travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days.
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Related: 3D Scanning the European Refugee Crisis How Refugees Are Changing "The Face" of the Netherlands This Is What It's Like to Photograph Refugees in Europe
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Charities Tent to Home and Help Refugees both confirmed to BuzzFeed News that the only travel company Greek Asylum Service officials directed refugees to was Himalaya.
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"Brazil has never had a social support system specifically for refugees," said Larissa Leite, a coordinator at the Caritas Reference Center for Refugees in São Paulo.
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In 2015, there were 21.3 million refugees worldwide, over half of which were under age 18, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for the Refugees.
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" The ruling found that Pence's order "clearly [discriminated]" against refugees, and noted that the state could provide "no evidence that Syrian terrorists [were] posing as refugees.
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Redi-School is free of charge and teaching refugees in Berlin to code London-based startup Bussu offers Premium Membership open to refugees who apply here.
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The big picture: The U.S. resettles more refugees than any other wealthy nation, but Canada and Australia now let in more refugees per capita, Yang said.
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The CUFI Action Fund believes this definition needs to change so Palestinian refugees are treated like other refugees through the "UNRWA Reform and Refugee Support Act."
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McCallum addressed the vulnerability of government-sponsored refugees, and admitted they have a harder time integrating than privately-sponsored refugees, in a press conference on Wednesday.
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It bans all refugees from entering the U.S. for 120 days, bans Syrian refugees indefinitely and blocks citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from visiting America.
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"Worse, some countries are actually cutting back on the number of admitted refugees, or they've said that they won't take any refugees at all," she said.
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Bassil, whose country hosts more than a million Syrian refugees, voiced concern over the limited time frame given for refugees to prove possession of their properties.
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Another element is encouraging host countries to integrate refugees into their economies and societies: "to let refugees work, to give them access to land," Newland says.
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But Ghossain said some refugees need longterm psychoanalytic therapy, which is difficult to provide given the shortage of specialists and the fact refugees often move around.
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All but a handful of the refugees have refused to move to the Lorengau community facility, citing fears for their safety after several assaults on refugees.
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The U.S. also wants to increase the number of child refugees in school and the number of refugees legally allowed to work by one million each.
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Six of the graduates from Ferris High School last year who were refugees entered as refugees in 9th grade with very little English when they arrived.
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That's because it only includes those who have officially registered as refugees, and no new refugees have been registered in the main host countries for months.
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A nation of 6900 million people is hosting an estimated 2628 million refugees and displaced people, the highest per-capita home to refugees in the world.
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We should accept more refugees, even as we prioritize pro-integration resettlement policies like requiring refugees to participate in native-majority, English-language-using social organizations.
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Canada's privately sponsored refugees report better outcomes than government-sponsored refugees in the majority of cases, such as satisfaction of resettlement and quicker labor force entry.
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Refugees rush to board a train before its departure towards Serbia, from the transit center for refugees near the southern Macedonia's town of Gevgelija, Sunday, Feb.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said that it receives less than a third of the $22016 million it needs to care for Malawi's refugees.
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The Supreme Court will hear challenges to the administration's barring of refugees next month, but in the meantime, is allowing the administration to bar many refugees.
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In particular, the Global Compact on Refugees will allow for better burden-sharing among host countries, while elevating the voices of refugees and civil society groups.
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The Supreme Court will hear challenges to the administration's ban on refugees next month, but in the meantime, is allowing the administration to bar many refugees.
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"States hosting refugees have an obligation not to forcibly return Syrian refugees to Syria, where their lives and freedoms would be at risk," Amnesty International said.
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According to a 1994 report by Refugees International, Bangladesh local officials began beating people and withholding food rations from the refugees to pressure them to return.
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The US role in resettling refugees was a point of debate before President Trump took office, with American attitudes toward refugees mostly split down partisan lines.
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Idlib's collapse has threatened to send hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees across the border into Turkey, which already has millions of refugees in the country.
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Trump's Friday order also calls for a 120-day halt on the admittance of refugees, in addition to an indefinite pause on admitting refugees from Syria.
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Last week, Republican Governor Greg Abbott of Texas, which resettles more refugees than any other state, became the first statewide official to refuse to accept refugees.
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In 22014, three times more Moldovan refugees were admitted than Syrians, even as more Syrians were living as refugees than there were people living in Moldova.
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The city is not a signatory to the United Nations Refugees Convention, and historically has only allowed a very small number of refugees to settle in.
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Beyond that, the administration has created a new system of limits for different types of refugees and has effectively stopped recruiting new refugees into the pipeline.
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Over the years, I have called on various US administrations to assist refugees in all corners of the globe -- not just those displaced as a consequence of American actions, such as Iraqi and Afghan refugees, but Bhutanese refugees in Nepal and the lost boys of Sudan.
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It may also become the day President Donald Trump signs an executive order banning all refugees from entering the US for four months, and banning Syrian refugees indefinitely — along with any other refugees from countries that the federal government decides don't have "sufficient safeguards" in place.
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" Mark Hetfield, president and CEO of HIAS, which has supported refugees since the early 20th century, told the Forward, "We find it particularly ironic that he's chosen the week of Holocaust Remembrance Day to wall out refugees and immigrants and to put a ban on refugees.
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Refugees and migrants in Greece are protesting their living conditions Refugees and migrants in Greece are protesting their living conditions Tensions flared at a refugee camp in Greece on Monday, with a group of stranded refugees protesting their living conditions and stopping a government official from entering.
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Millions driven from Iraq Over half of all refugees come from Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia A total of 21.6% of all refugees come from just three countries.
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The measure has yet to be implemented, but refugees compare it to Israel's absentees' property laws, which allow the government to take the property of Palestinian refugees.
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Looking at refugees, the global crisis is seeing an unprecedented surge according to the UNHCR, who estimate that there are currently more than 20 million refugees worldwide.
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But he did draw a distinction between what he said happened to Jewish refugees and what happened to Palestinian refugees in the turbulent period surrounding Israel's founding.
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The order had barred citizens from the seven countries from entering the US for 90 days, all refugees for 120 days and indefinitely halted refugees from Syria.
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Trump's order barred travelers from seven mainly Muslim countries for 90 days and all refugees for 120 days, except refugees from Syria, whom he would ban indefinitely.
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The order, named "Protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States", has suspended America's refugees programme for four months and barred Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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This might mean sharing videos from refugee organizations that highlight the stories of individual refugees, or reposting stories from refugees who you directly follow or personally know.
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His lawyers are arguing that China, which regularly sends North Korean refugees back, and Turkey, which Amnesty International claims is banishing some refugees, are not safe countries.
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We are creating this wave of refugees, and then shamefully we are then criminalizing these refugees once they come here by detaining, deporting, and night raiding them.
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Yet since then, the country has resettled just 14,887 refugees, putting it on track to admit the lowest number of refugees in the programme's 38-year history.
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Any refugees with such a relationship should be exempt from the three-month ban on refugees included in the executive order, according to the Supreme Court ruling.
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Refugees have also been creating their own tech projects themselves, from the Syrian refugee answer to Etsy, Sharqi, to the app to help refugees navigate German bureaucracy.
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This number includes refugees from conflict zones around the world, and it's not yet clear how many of these slots will be open to Syrian refugees specifically.
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The order, issued late Friday, bans refugees for 120 days — and Syrian refugees indefinitely — as well as suspending travel from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days.
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But 96 percent of Germans surveyed by Amnesty are comfortable letting refugees into Germany — and nearly two-thirds would be comfortable letting refugees settle in their neighborhoods.
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Refugees wrapped in blankets walk in freezing weather towards the border with Serbia, from the transit center for refugees near northern Macedonian village of Tabanovce on Jan.
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Denying charges by German critics that Turkey was using refugees to blackmail Europe, she told a campaign event that Ankara had taken in 2.7 million Syrian refugees.
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Turnbull call focused on refugees His call with Turnbull also centered on Trump's campaign vows, this time his pledge to bar refugees from entering the United States.
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Among other provisions, the Secure Accountability for Emigres and Refugees (SAFER) Act, H.R. 230, would require all Syrian and Iraqi refugees to pass a lie detector test.
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But some of them have asked wealthier refugees and shopkeepers to pay regular taxes, saying the money will be used to fight back in Myanmar, refugees said.
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A new campaign called Refugees Welcome❤️ — heart and all — offers tips and resources to help you host a Valentine's Day dinner for refugees in your neighborhood.
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The new program also bars 224,210 spouses of refugees and their children under the age of 21, a group that represented 5% of refugees admitted in 2017.
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According to the Pew study, which looked at data from the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR), the U.S. took in just 2900,220006 refugees in 2202.
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Police and immigration workers dismantling the shelters on Friday have thrown away water being stored by refugees, according to the refugees, and photos posted on social media.
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"We are like a model to refugees, and we are also like spokesmen for refugees because we need to tell the people how it feels," said Koroma.
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The agency, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said it did not discourage refugees from returning to Syria if they wanted to or spreading fear about conditions.
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Pakistan, home to 1.3 million registered Afghan refugees and some 700,000 undocumented Afghans, has begun to crack down on those refugees living in the country without permission.
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Additionally, there has been a large decline Muslim refugees in the 2018 fiscal year, with the amount of Muslim refugees dropping more than any other religious group.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday responded to President Trump's executive order banning refugees and halting immigration from several countries by welcoming those refugees to Canada.
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The Syrian conflict that erupted in 2011 has generated 5.6 million refugees in the Middle East, with Lebanon hosting more than 950,000 registered refugees, according to UNHCR.
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The first version of the ban, an executive order issued in January, halted all refugees coming into the US for 120 days and all Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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When it comes to refugees, we already have an "extreme vetting" process in place that takes two years to get through for refugees fleeing war torn countries.
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As European countries made it harder for refugees to follow the so-called Balkan route, her family was among 4,000 or so refugees stuck in the country.
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The ban also freezes resettlement of all refugees regardless of their country of origin, but again, refugees who already have a valid visa should be allowed in.
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Today, the number of refugees from Syria's brutal nine-year civil war hovers at around 6.6 million, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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A State Department spokeswoman did not respond to questions about the rejections, arguing the Nauru refugees are subject to the same vetting procedures as other refugees worldwide.
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A serious global agenda must include upholding opportunities for refugees to work by permitting labor market access, including self-employment, and increasing refugees' access to decent work.
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The original executive order issued last month barred refugees from anywhere in the world from entering the United States for 120 days and refugees from Syria indefinitely.
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Turkish news channels were filled with footage of Syrian refugees walking toward the Greek and Bulgarian borders, and buses filled with refugees in Istanbul heading toward Greece.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Good Refugees, Bad Refugees," by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Sunday Review, May 20): My dad's grandfather came from Germany, his grandmother from Poland.
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It also allows green-card and visa holders from those countries to enter the U.S. and does not indefinitely ban Syrian refugees, just temporarily bans all refugees.
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Save the Children said two thirds of Syrian refugees in the United States were women and children and that refugees were extensively vetted by multiple U.S. agencies.
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On Thursday, a group of 66 refugees — 65 Syrians and one Iraqi — who arrived in Madrid raised the total number of refugees accepted in Spain to 1,100.
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" Threats like these are why, as politician Krzysztof Mróz said, "regarding refugees, the Polish government has the same position as Americans – we want strict restrictions on refugees.
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Over the last several years, Ulukaya has been making a passionate pitch to assist refugees through Tent, Ulukaya's nonprofit dedicated to helping improve the lives of refugees.
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Countries hosting refugees voiced concern over Law 10, saying its effect might be to prevent refugees from returning if they were to lose their property in Syria.
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Najah Bazzy: Zaman began helping refugees during the post-Gulf War (era) when we had a tremendous amount of refugees from Iraq coming into the Detroit area.
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He pointed out that Minneapolis has a large population of Somali refugees and vowed to place refugees only in communities that explicitly express interest in accepting them.
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But the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees criticized the decision, saying that some of the Syrians mentioned by the Algerian official were known to be registered refugees.
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On Monday, during the opening of the 2016 UN General Assembly, the world body held its first Summit on Refugees and Migrants (with the focus on refugees).
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Trump wants to prioritize refugees who can "assimilate" Trump wants to prioritize refugees who can "assimilate" The Trump administration wants to give preferential treatment to refugees based on those likely to achieve "successful assimilation" in the United States, according to a report to Congress obtained by VICE News.
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The White House has said it wants countries to double the number of slots available for permanent resettlement to 200,000 (about 1 percent of all refugees worldwide); increase aid to refugees by 30 percent; provide jobs for a million refugees; and offer educational opportunities for a million refugee children.
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Refugees were blocked from entering the country for 120 days in both orders, but an indefinite ban on all refugees from Syria was dropped in the new one.
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"We will never abandon refugees, and in this case refugees vetted countless times," Cohen said, adding that the group was prepared to mobilize the vaunted Sanders email list.
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Refugees and counterterrorism If there is one issue that has been the most subject to the kinds of rhetoric calculated to poison relations between world leaders, it's refugees.
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Australia to resettle refugees in US under 'one-off' deal In September, Australia pledged to take a group of Central American refugees housed in camps in Costa Rica.
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Most refugees come to the US from just 10 countries The country that sent the most refugees to the US last year was the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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In the first three days of the Trump administration, the US admitted 136 Syrian refugees (Saturday-Monday), according to is State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.
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The order bans citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for 90 days and all refugees for 120 days and indefinitely halts refugees from Syria.
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Related: Illustrating a Migrant's Experience in 3D Art This Font Reminds Us that Refugees are People, Too Ai Wei Wei Stands with Syrian Refugees: This Week in Art
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And for the audience of Eurovision the question remains: Can a song about refugees shape European policies towards refugees in the biggest refugee crisis since World War II?
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According to the United Nations, there are approximately 900,000 Rohingya refugees today, as well as some 20173,000 Bangladeshis who are hosting these refugees and in need of assistance.
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The spokesperson did not explain why the office was sending all refugees to just one company, and instead said refugees could choose to wait if they couldn't pay.
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Nathan says that his home-sharing program has helped build stronger understanding between Brits and refugees, and he believes it can help dispel sensationalist stereotypes about Muslim refugees.
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Israel says only survivors among the original 1948 refugees should be considered refugees today - an idea fiercely opposed by the Palestinian leadership, which hews to the UNRWA numbers.
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The brokers who arrange such things are prohibitively expensive; refugees who flee to China are labelled "illegal economic refugees" or "criminals" and sent back if they are caught.
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Turkey, which already hosts 3.6 million refugees, fears Russian air strikes and a recent northward surge by Syrian troops threatens to send millions more refugees toward its border.
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Such stories are common in migrant camps: according to UNHCR, the UN's agency for refugees, refugees can easily spend a third of their disposable income on staying connected.
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Though LGBT refugees had been expecting swift processing of their asylum claims, not many saw the kind of attention that the initial group of 23 refugees had received.
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"If you just raise the flag of the refugees and show them that I'm one of the refugees in the camp there and I'm somewhere now," he said.
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" Trump later accused Clinton of wanting to give jobs to refugees rather than unemployed African-Americans in the US, saying they have "become refugees in their own country.
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According to estimates from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, there are some 23,000 refugees still in Jordan, 1.1 million in Lebanon and 2.3 million in Turkey.
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With a wartime economy of profiteering and smuggling in full swing and a paucity of information for refugees along the route, refugees are already being taken advantage of.
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As Trump seeks to demonize refugees and Muslim people in general, films such as Watani: My Homeland, which tell the human story of refugees, become ever more important.
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And in Lebanon, which is currently hosting 1.4 million refugees and asylum seekers, public opinion is only a little less overwhelmingly in favor of action to help refugees.
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Refugees eat bread and hot soup upon arrival at the transit center for refugees near northern Macedonian village of Tabanovce, before continuing their journey to Serbia on Jan.
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Kerry said the U.S. would press countries currently resettling refugees to double the number they take in and urge at least 10 more countries to begin accepting refugees.
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He said the EU's fund for refugees in Turkey should be extended to Jordan and Lebanon and refugees should be allowed to work in the countries hosting them.
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Priority should go to refugees who apply for asylum while still in Turkey, Jordan or Lebanon—to reduce the incentive for refugees to board leaky boats to Greece.
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As a result, Pakistan expelled hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees over the last year, in what is probably the largest unlawful return of refugees in recent times.
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While the number of refugees who desperately need our help remains unacceptably high, President Trump's administration, and many in Congress, seek to slam the door shut on refugees.
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Hundreds of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh protested on Thursday against any attempt to send them back, and by late afternoon no refugees had returned, Myanmar officials said.
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Refugees resettle across the U.S., but the states that take the most refugees are Texas, Washington, New York and California, together accepting about 25 percent of those resettled.
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As refugees and asylum seekers continue to pour into Europe, poor conditions in crowded migrant camps and informal settlements are putting their health at risk, Help Refugees said.
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Refugees The Senate is headed toward round two in the battle over refugees after conservatives voiced frustrated that the issue wasn't addressed in the year-end spending bill.
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The United Nations high commissioner for refugees has agreed to set up an unusual process to review requests from potential refugees while they are in their home countries.
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The conflict has caused one of the largest refugee movements in recent history, with more than 4.8 million refugees registered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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He's even massively curtailed the number of refugees who can come to the US. From October 1, 2017, to March 31, 2018, the US admitted only 10,500 refugees.
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Sometimes they want to show that refugees are criminals, so they focus on the small amount of crimes enacted by refugees and generalize it as all of them.
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The order, as signed late Friday, also closed the door to Syrian refugees indefinitely, and more than halved the number of refugees the country will take in 2017.
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Why was I writing a book about refugees 75 years ago, when we had refugees struggling for freedom 100 yards away from where I had slept last night?
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Keeping refugees on the Syrian side of the border would help Brussels and Ankara, which hosts 2.7 million Syrian refugees, stem the flow of migrants to European shores.
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The order prohibits immigration from seven majority-Muslim nations for 90 days, bans refugees from entering the U.S. for 120 days and indefinitely suspends resettlement for Syrian refugees.
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By comparison, the three other states that resettle the highest number of refugees — California, New York, and Washington — resettled 1,841, 1,845 and 1,947 refugees respectively over that period.
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By comparison, the three other states that resettle the highest number of refugees — California, New York, and Washington — resettled 51,841, 1,845 and 1,947 refugees respectively over that period.
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But Peter Shumlin, the departing Democratic governor, said Vermont would welcome Syrian refugees, and Mr. Louras texted the governor to see whether they could bring refugees to Rutland.
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Our government ratified the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees and established an asylum system to grant status to refugees who sought this country's protection from persecution.
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With the rise in fearful rhetoric surrounding foreigners, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, he wanted to publicly demonstrate that refugees should be welcomed in the US, not feared.
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While the United States has resettled a great number of refugees since World War II, it accepted only 28500,6900 refugees in 2628 — a 28503 percent drop since 22020.
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Texas, which took in more refugees than any other state during the 2018 fiscal year, became the first state known to reject the resettlement of new refugees. Gov.
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It is true that very few Christians are among the refugees we've admitted from Syria, because most Syrian refugees are Sunni Muslims who have fled the Assad regime.
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Trump issued an executive order in September that requires states and local governments to agree to receiving refugees, potentially limiting the places where refugees could eventually be resettled.
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This "right of return" seems reasonable and just, but relatively few people realize that — uniquely among the world's 65 million refugees — the Palestinians' descendants are defined as refugees.
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"We have to make sure both refugees and host communities benefit from our interventions," said Moges Tamene, a program manager with DanChurchAid, which works with refugees throughout Ethiopia.
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Ulukaya is alleviating the plight of refugees at a time when the US government is reducing foreign aid and lowering the number of refugees the US will admit.
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Mr. Bitner said he had been unaware until recently that refugees were being placed in Burleigh County, which has about 298,2124 residents and received 224 refugees last year.
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Even so, Uganda's openness toward refugees makes Mr. Museveni important to European nations, which are uneasy at the prospect of more than a million refugees heading for Europe.
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The raised bar for scrutiny of refugees — a longtime Trump campaign promise, out of fears that Syrian refugees would be a "Trojan horse" — has reportedly bottlenecked the system.
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He said the children and grandchildren of long-displaced refugees in Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, Congo and elsewhere are also recognized as refugees and assisted by the United Nations.
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In the midst of a global refugee crisis (with more people living as refugees than ever before and staying refugees for longer) the order will, both by design and due to predictable consequences, result in the US taking a fraction of the refugees it's taken in the past couple of years.
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Refugee life as seen by a child 200,000 refugees returned; 100,000 resettled Just over 7363,000 refugees returned home in 2015 -- most to Afghanistan, Somalia and the Central African Republic.
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Because it's run by Burmese refugees, for Burmese refugees, patients know they won't be turned away, discriminated against, or told there are no supplies or staff to help them.
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The ban removes language in the original order that indefinitely banned Syrian refugees and called for prioritizing the admission of refugees who are religious minorities in their home countries.
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The revised order removes language in the original that indefinitely banned Syrian refugees and called for prioritizing the admission of refugees who are religious minorities in their home countries.
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He has condemned those who support anti-immigration policies, urged Christians to take in Muslim refugees, and housed Muslim refugees in the Vatican to send a message of inclusiveness.
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Shortly after Trump spoke of limiting the number of Syrian refugees entering the U.S., shouts of "stop hate, stop Trump" and "refugees are welcome here" erupted from his audience.
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Dutton's assurances don't square with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which confirmed Wednesday that the new accommodation is "not ready" to house refugees or provide vital services.
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It removes out language in the original order that indefinitely banned Syrian refugees and called for prioritizing the admission of refugees who are religious minorities in their home countries.
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The tiny country of 5 million, which is hosting more than 1 million Syrian refugees, asked the U.N. to stop registering refugees in 2015, hoping to deter new arrivals.
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European nations and the U.S. may have developed the rules for refugees in the 1951 Refugee Convention, but developing nations host 85% of the world's refugees, according to UNHCR.
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The U.S. is on track to not admit any refugees in October, following the cancellation of hundreds of flights intended to bring refugees to the country, CNN reported Tuesday.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - The United Nations refugees agency UNHCR expressed concern on Thursday about Greek proposals to overhaul laws affecting asylum seekers, saying they could weaken the protection of refugees.
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A majority of those surveyed, including those who opposed admitting more refugees into the country, said that Syrian refugees already in the country should be welcomed into American society.
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An outfit called 51 labs, named after the 1951 UN Refugees Convention, is a start-up incubator from Kurdistan, in northern Iraq, which encourages collaboration between refugees and locals.
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A two-year programme is meant to make refugees "job-ready", but is often too long for educated refugees and too short for those lacking basic literacy and numeracy.
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Posing as Syrian refugees The documents reveal fresh details about their journey and the way they posed as Syrian refugees, blending in with thousands fleeing the war-torn country.
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As Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute has shown, since 1975 only three Americans have been killed in attacks committed by refugees—all by Cuban refugees in the 1970s.
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Why it matters: Since Trump took office, the number of refugees admitted to the U.S. has fallen significantly — as has the share of refugees admitted who are non-Christian.
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This French man organized an underground network to help hundreds of refugees This French man organized an underground network to help hundreds of refugees This segment originally aired Jan.
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The AfD in November proposed repatriating half a million Syrian refugees, saying the war was nearly over and that President Bashar al-Assad had urged refugees to return home.
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Merkel has also said the number of refugees needs to go down and that most refugees from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended.
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There are nearly 21.3 million refugees around the world, more than half of whom are under the age of 18, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Jolie was appointed special envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 2012 and has since traveled the world advocating for refugees and women and children, in particular.
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Although Ankara has signed the Geneva Convention on refugees, the rules are only considered valid for refugees fleeing European countries, thus giving fewer rights to Syrians, Iraqis and others.
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It also was a stop sign for all refugee admissions to the United States for 120 days, barred Syrian refugees indefinitely, and prioritized Christian refugees and other religious minorities.
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Donald Trump has officially closed America's doors to some of the world's most desperate, banning all refugees from entering the country for 90 days — and banning Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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The refugees issue – The Trump plan will call for a just solution to the refugees issue in the Palestinian state, without a right of return to Israel, Erekat reports.
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Refugees try to warm themselves up in a tent at the transit center for refugees near northern Macedonian village of Tabanovce, before continuing their journey to Serbia on Jan.
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People are on the run within their countries and greater numbers of South Sudanese refugees are fleeing to Sudan and Uganda, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said.
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He noted that aiding refugees actually does help the U.S. at home and abroad because it contributes to global stability by reducing pressure on countries hosting the most refugees.
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Recognizing the lack of opportunities for refugees, German Bencci said he started Code Your Future to give refugees practical web skills, while helping them network with tech industry insiders.
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DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bangladesh has arrested 0003 men suspected of targeting Rohingya refugees for trafficking, police said on Friday, amid concerns over the growing desperation of the refugees.
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Utah's history of being settled by religious refugees is why some Republicans there including the governor have been supportive of refugees and opposed to President Trump's proposed Muslim ban.
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But in reality, most members have failed to take their quotas of refugees and nearly a dozen have built barricades to try to keep both migrants and refugees out.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations warned against "demonizing" refugees on Friday, after a global poll revealed 60 percent of people thought Islamic extremists were posing as refugees.
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After all, there are more refugees than at any time since World War II, and people are staying refugees for longer than ever before — years, decades, sometimes entire generations.
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The new program bars refugees coming from 22018 countries that made up 21980% of the 2120,211 refugees admitted to the U.S. in the 290 fiscal year that ended Sept.
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Turkey, which is a host to nearly three million refugees, has denied similar previous allegations and maintains that it allows entry to refugees whose lives are under imminent threat.
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Two chants held sway: "Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here," which recalled the massive march held in London in 2015 to show solidarity with refugees.
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President Obama has pledged to protect refugees worldwide, yet within our own borders immigration authorities are rounding up and locking up Central American refugees as if they are criminals.
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But the case for admitting refugees is not merely utilitarian — bring in 10,85033 refugees and get one Google and one Latin dance hit — it is rather a moral imperative.
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Refugees' rights (24) This would require ministers to seek agreement to maintain the right of unaccompanied child refugees in one EU state to join relatives in Britain after Brexit.
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So far, no cases of COVID-19 have been reported among refugees or asylum seekers anywhere in the world, according to Filippo Grandi, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Which means that, combined with Donald Trump's executive order (temporarily) banning refugees and Syrians from the United States, the numbers of refugees in Turkey won't be shrinking anytime soon.
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Millions of refugees have fled to neighboring countries, including Colombia, which just this week granted citizenship to 24,000 babies born to Venezuelan refugees who've fled their homeland since 2015.
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Ben's the goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and he's pleading with countries who host refugees to help ensure long-term support for displaced people.
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Especially nations such as Turkey, which are getting most affected by the now 2 million refugees that live there: They actually prefer that refugees continue to live in Syria.
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For most of the four decades since the Vietnam War ended, refugees fleeing the Communist government in Vietnam have been treated differently from those refugees from most other countries.
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The closure of the camp and "the management of refugees and those found not to be refugees are matters for P.N.G.," the department said Tuesday in an emailed statement.
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Entry of refugees is currently limited by the president's original travel ban, and officials said the administration was preparing new rules for refugees that should be announced within days.
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Under the program, refugees from distressed areas of the world (areas plagued by war and violence) apply first to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for entrance.
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Canada has always seen itself as welcoming toward refugees, and the Liberal Party responded by promising Canada would take in 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year.
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"We were optimistic, in fact, that the governor would announce his support for accepting refugees given what other governors, particularly Republican governors, were doing to accept refugees," he said.
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Fewer than 3,85033 refugees have come to the U.S., but President Obama has pushed for the U.S. to allow 10,000 refugees from the crisis to come to the country.
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Go deeper: ICC agrees to investigate crimes against Rohingya Muslims Rohingya refugees long to return home but fear what they'd find there The world shuts its doors to refugees
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" Warren wrote in July, "I'll welcome 125,000 refugees in my first year, and ramping up to at least 175,000 refugees per year by the end of my first term.
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"This measure completely ignores the welcome that communities have provided to refugees, as well as the important contributions resettled refugees have made to these communities all across the country."
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Some LGBT+ refugees said they were beaten while walking through the camp, and others said their shelters were deliberately set on fire by refugees who were against sexual minorities.
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What's more, international law, primarily the 1951 Refugee Convention, doesn't officially recognize climate refugees as "refugees" because they are not fleeing conflict or political or social persecution at home.
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The city welcomed new refugees this month as part of an effort by local residents and the International Rescue Committee to resettle some 150 refugees over the next year.
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At the Supreme Court, the government challenged only the part of the appeals court's ruling concerning refugees, arguing that there is no direct connection between refugees and resettlement agencies.
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Refugees' rights (24) This would require ministers to seek agreement to maintain the right of unaccompanied child refugees in one EU state to join relatives in Britain after Brexit.
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Following their arrests, the US government ramped up the vetting process for Iraqi refugees, slowing the influx of refugees, but Obama never instated an outright ban, as Conway claimed.
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The US has been a world leader in resettling refugees: Historically, half of all refugees who've been permanently resettled in a distant country have come to the United States.
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Tensions over resources between host communities and refugees are on the rise and could escalate, as could ethnic skirmishes between South Sudanese refugees that mirror the conflict at home.
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His refugee ban was signed under the pretense that Syrian refugees may be strong male ISIS terrorists in disguise, despite the fact that most Syrian refugees are women and children.
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Afghanistan, which shares borders with Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China, is already the world's second biggest source of refugees, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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"I'm considering the possibility of carrying out identification and recognition procedures to identify real refugees, who are the minority, from fake refugees before they disembark," he told state broadcaster Rai.
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The meeting has been set at Teaching North Korean Refugees (TNKR), a nonprofit English school for refugees that the political science student has been attending for more than a year.
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The United States has taken only around 15,000 Syrian refugees, amounting to a tiny 0.2% of the total number of refugees, the large majority of whom are women and children.
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But such accounts are common among Syrian refugees in Turkey and the men fighting alongside Turkish forces, and have stoked refugees' demands for Turkey to help them regain their homes.
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No refugees have been resettled in the U.S. in October, and the government has canceled around 500 flights for refugees who were supposed to arrive this month, according to CNN.
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The third basis for the obligation to refugees is that the United States and most other countries have acknowledged that the international state system has a duty to protect refugees.
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Some 300 refugees have camped outside the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on St. George's Mall, a square known for hotels and a popular tourist market.
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The summit also aims to increase the number of refugees worldwide in school by one million and the number of refugees granted the legal right to work by one million.
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"This provides a huge incentive for these fake refugees to come to Hong Kong and take advantage," added Lee, who is demanding repatriation of refugees and camps to house them.
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The new global trends report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) shows an increase in the record number of forcibly displaced persons in 2017, including 25.4m refugees.
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On April 22, 2016, a local organization called Solidarity Initiative for Economic and Political Refugees, together with tens of refugees, occupied the empty building to the chagrin of the owner.
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Amal and George continued their efforts to advocate on behalf of Syrian refugees in March by sharing a video of a recent meeting they had with several refugees in Germany.
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"On the one hand, we have more refugees and displaced people than ever before," he said, adding that as of 20073, 68.5 million people are either refugees or internally displaced.
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" She reminds people that refugees are "men and women and babies and children, and mothers and brothers and sisters" who want the same thing as non-refugees: "Peace" and "security.
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But when it comes to refugees in particular, the numbers are much lower: Since it started offering loans to refugees in 2016, Kiva has totaled just $12.5 million in loans.
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The U.S. still resettles more refugees than any other wealthy nation, although Canada and Australia now resettle more refugees per capita than the U.S., according to World Relief's Jenny Yang.
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Scaling solutions to problems is what the tech industry does, which is why Techfugees acts as a bridge between the tech community and the needs of refugees and refugees NGOs.
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In 2016, PNG's Supreme Court ruled it was illegal to detain the nearly 800 refugees, as well as asylum seekers who have not been registered as refugees, on Manus Island.
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Turkey, which hosts 3.6 million Syrian refugees, has threatened to "open the gates" to allow those refugees to head for Europe if the EU opposed Turkey's actions in northern Syria.
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"Our officials are compiling the lists of the refugees who are willing to move there," he said, adding that as many as 7,000 refugees had by Saturday agreed to shift.
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The work begins in Turkey, partly because it hosts 2500m refugees, most of them Syrian, and partly because it has become a gathering ground for refugees and migrants from elsewhere.
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Last week, in the name of national security, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning Syrian refugees from the U.S. indefinitely and refugees from other countries for 120 days.
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Donald Trump's original travel ban indefinitely banned entry to Syrian refugees due to security concerns, but has since been revised to consider Syrian refugees on a case-by-case basis.
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There are about 10 to 11 million people either internal refugees, or refugees outside Syria, the whole Syrian economy has been damaged, the infrastructure, I think it's not serving anybody.
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Refugees trapped, thousands flee Rohingya refugees have continued to pour over the border into Bangladesh ever since the latest outbreak of violence on August 25, according to the United Nations.
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The petition came after Trump's controversial executive order temporarily blocking refugees and visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. and indefinitely stopping refugees from war-torn Syria.
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A report from the Center for American Progress on Somali, Burmese, Hmong, and Bosnian refugees reports that refugees gradually see growth in their wages and gradually obtain white-collar jobs.
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But over time, granting refugees a degree of self-determination can reduce the distressing waste of human potential in places like Dadaab, and reduce friction between refugees and their hosts.
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Advocates for refugees say the administration's goal is not national security but rather immigration limits, arguing the United States is accepting fewer refugees than the lowered caps suggest (NBC News).
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Afghanistan shares a border with Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China, and is the world's second-biggest source of refugees, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Australia's annual intake of permanent migrants has risen since the 163s, from 69,000 in 1984-85 (including 14,000 refugees) to around 200,000 from 2011 to 73 (including 10,000-20,000 refugees).
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Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, for example, have taken in millions of refugees from neighboring Syria, while in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has taken in a million refugees since 2015.
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The order also included a 120-day ban on admitting refugees and an indefinite halt on admitting refugees from Syria, which has been embattled in a civil war since 2011.
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"In Europe, no one is taking in refugees, and they call us racist," she said, adding that she also wanted reassurances that the refugees attending local schools had been vaccinated.
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But resettlement is not an automatic right for refugees, however, and less than 1% of registered refugees globally are resettled each year, a UNCHR spokesperson told CNN in an email.
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In January 2017, he announced that Starbucks would hire 503,000 refugees over five years, only two days after Trump issued an executive order barring refugees from several Muslim-majority countries.
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It is not an automatic right for refugees to be resettled and fewer than 1% of the millions of registered refugees globally were resettled in 2017, according to the UNHCR.
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Most concerning is that fact while we accepted only 1,682 Syrian refugees in 2015, a politically motivated deadline resulted in over 2,300Syrian refugees entering the U.S. in June 2016 alone.
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Trump has issued travel bans on refugees from several majority-Muslim countries and announced in 2017 that no more than 45,000 refugees would be allowed into the U.S. this year.
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It urges countries to allow refugees to work and to let their children attend school, though it stops short of saying refugees have a right to either jobs or schools.
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"Member states should not be forced to accept refugees they don't want and refugees should not be forced to settle in countries where they don't want to go," Soros said.
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According to the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), around 671,000 Rohingya refugees have "fled targeted violence and serious human rights violations in Myanmar" since last August.
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The treaty defines refugees as people with a well-founded fear of persecution and requires nations to refrain from returning refugees to lands where their lives or freedom are threatened.
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Mieh Mieh camp, 4 km east of Sidon, is home to 5,250 Palestinian refugees, according to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which aids Palestinian refugees across the region.
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Also note that even Clinton's expanded target pales in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in many European countries and the million-plus Syrian refugees in Turkey.
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Even as the team captured images of the refugees at their most vulnerable – mourning mothers, scarred children, survivors of violent attacks – the journalists found that the refugees were surprisingly open.
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In Germany, the news is so often about the threat refugees and refugees might pose to the nation, or the threat of the right-wing radicals opposed to their arrival.
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It also noted that the only developed country where studies have attempted to measure refugees' overall economic impact is Australia — and all have found that refugees net contribution is positive.
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He referenced the ongoing debate about the intake of refugees from Syria, asking whether in the interest of public safety, he would be given information about refugees admitted to Florida.
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The number of Muslim refugees peaked in fiscal 2016 due to the unrest related to Syria's civil war, surpassing the number of Christian refugees admitted that year, according to Pew.
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He also pleaded for help defending Idlib, to prevent another million refugees pouring into Turkey, while at the same time weaponizing the migrants and refugees he currently houses against Europe.
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It might also eliminate the provision of the original order that banned Syrian refugees from entering the US indefinitely (even after the 120-day global ban on refugees has ended).
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"If I don't get the refugees, eventually I won't be able to sustain the staffing capacity and the operations," said Ali Al Sudani, above, who works with refugees in Houston.
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While Ankara's motives are many, one concrete result is a reduction in the flow of refugees across the border and the possibility that many refugees can return to their homes.
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Apart from the refugees' economic anxiety and precarious legal status, the Iranians exploit the Shia faith of Afghan refugees to recruit them to fight for the Assad regime in Syria.
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My children's ancestors include black refugees who fled the South Carolina slave plantation police state during the Civil War, and Jewish refugees who fled the Russian pogroms in the 1880s.
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Reach Out to Refugees Students who are moved by the story of this family might research how they could help refugees in their own communities or elsewhere in the world.
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And yet, despite the evidence that refugees make this nation culturally and economically richer, the Trump administration still wants to limit the number of refugees that our communities can welcome.
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Bowers also condemned the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), which brings refugees to the US. His attack bears the hallmarks of an outrage motivated by hatred of Jews and refugees.
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While Canada resettles more refugees than any other country, it does not rank in the top 20 of the World Bank's per capita rankings for overall numbers of refugees received.
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First, transfer the U.S. contribution and control of the refugees to the UN High Commission on Refugees – which has the mission of resettling people in countries that will have them.
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Mieh Mieh camp, 4 km east of Sidon, is home to 5,250 Palestinian refugees, according to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which aids Palestinian refugees across the region.
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Most refugees are women and children and none of the terrorist acts on our soil have been committed by Syrian refugees (or people from the other 7 countries he banned).
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Fighting around Khan Eshieh camp, home to about 8,000 Palestinian refugees, has intensified since May, said the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which aids Palestinian refugees across the region.
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There are upward of 60 million refugees in the world today, the most since World War II. Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Myanmar and Somalia are the biggest sources of refugees.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - It is "very premature" to talk about returning refugees to Syria because the situation there remains insecure and dangerous, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said on Friday.
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Syrian refugees were no longer explicitly indefinitely banned from the US — instead, they'd just be part of the global 120-day ban on refugees, and subject to "extreme vetting" afterward.
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" While only a relatively small number of refugees get resettled in third countries, "the United States welcomes almost two-thirds of these refugees, more than all other resettlement countries combined.
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And at both school and at work, Mahoney stresses that getting policies in place to ease the transition for refugees, like those that formally support the hiring of refugees or provide skills-based resources to refugees already with the company, is one of the most important things you can do to offer support.
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Turkey, which is already home to 2.5 million Syrian refugees, has also been a key focus of European Union efforts to halt the biggest flow of refugees to the continent since World War II. Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of refugees leave every night from Turkey to cross the sea to Greece in smugglers' boats.
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Working on it, she told me, gave her an insight into how the immigrant community, and refugees in particular, view his appointment: When the rest of the world was closing its doors to refugees, particularly from Muslim countries, Canada appointed a Muslim refugee from Somalia as minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship.
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The Times article by Daniel Victor' explores the parallels between today's Syrian refugees and Jewish refugees before World War II. We pair this news article with a 10-minute excerpt from "Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War" that focuses on the Sharps's efforts to help refugees escape from occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939.
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Three countries account for over half of the global total of 17.2m refugees who come under the remit of the UNHCR (this figure does not include a further 5.3m Palestinian refugees).
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Read more: 63 billion reasons why Trump is wrong about refugees These refugees are the first of approximately 2,000 who could be resettled in states across the U.S. under the deal.
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During times when camp authorities locked them in—refugees are not meant to leave the camps for the first 25 days they are there—the refugees cut holes in the fences.
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Tindouf is home to tens of thousands of refugees from the Western Sahara standoff, and a source close to Polisario said the flight route is taken regularly by Western Saharan refugees.
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Mark Hetfield: We are one of the nine refugee resettlement agencies [organizations that the government contracts with to help integrate refugees in the United States, and pair up with individual refugees].
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In 2014, the United Nations' refugee agency, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, resettled less than 1 percent of all Somali refugees in Kenya, two-thirds of whom reside in Dadaab.
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Angelina Jolie is speaking out against President Donald Trump's controversial executive order that suspended the entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days and barred Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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That number is dwarfed by the overall estimated number of Syrian refugees -- about 11 million in the past six years -- as well as the number of refugees who flee to Europe.
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UNRWA, the U.N. agency that cares for Palestinian refugees, has said it is deeply concerned about the fate of civilians including some 12,000 Palestinian refugees in Yarmouk and the surrounding areas.
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When President Donald Trump's executive order to ban refugees from the United States left 12 refugees detained at New York City's John F. Kennedy airport, city residents showed up to protest.
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He said the ongoing persecution of the Rohingya meant that any potential return of the refugees was impossible at present, despite Myanmar's claims it was ready to begin accepting returning refugees.
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The first executive order banned citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for 90 days, temporarily suspended the entry of all refugees and indefinitely closed out Syrian refugees.
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The survey of refugees' employment status, educational background and values was conducted by the research department of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees and the IAB and DIW research institutes.
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It affects travellers on all types of visas (other than diplomatic and UN ones) and refugees and will be in force for 90 days (indefinitely in the case of Syrian refugees).
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Widely described as an "Airbnb for Refugees," Refugees Welcome saw a surge of volunteers in 2015, after a photo of a drowned Syrian boy drew media attention to the migrant crisis.
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REFUGEES Liberal-National coalition * Plans to reverse a law that allows doctors to approve transfers of refugees held on remote Pacific island detention centres to Australia if they need medical care.
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"People believe in Trump's rhetoric that refugees are bad," Ms Macaluso sighs—even though, she says, nearby cities such as Utica have benefited from refugees buying abandoned houses and starting businesses.
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"You cannot say there is no connection between refugees and terrorism, but the danger was high before and remains high, regardless of questions about refugees," Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said.
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During the presidential campaign, Trump pledged to "stop the massive inflow of refugees" and warned that terrorists were smuggling themselves into naive countries by posing as refugees fleeing war-torn Syria.
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And while his flatmates worried that he might need lots of help, they soon found out that Mouhanad, who founded his own support group, called Refugees for Refugees, was already settled.
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Of the approximately 84,000 Somali refugees in the US, about 40 percent live in Minnesota because of the state's active voluntary agencies that work with the State Department to resettle refugees.
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An annual report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees released on Tuesday showed the global number of refugees grew by a record 2.9 million in 2017 to 25.4 million.
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His comments come amid continued backlash at Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days, suspending all refugees for four months and halting Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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Chris Gunness, an UNRWA spokesman, said the organization "is prioritizing food security support to the most vulnerable refugees by continuing its emergency food program to nearly 1 million refugees" in Gaza.
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The European Union is pouring cash ($3.3 billion) into a vastly expanded program to house refugees in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, trying to forestall another surge of refugees across the Mediterranean.
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Rooms for Refugees, for example, another UK-based charity that connects refugees with hosts received more than 300 spare room offers in the space of 48 hours and now have 545.
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Dessaules cited the example of the Trump administration's latest restrictions on refugees, which effectively halted resettlement programs for refugees from 11 countries, were blocked by a federal judge just last month.
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The diaspora refugees (after dangerous and uncertain journeys) have found new homes in new countries; the South Sudanese refugees had spent years in one of the largest camps in the world.
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No one knows how many people in line are refugees, but the backlogs of hopeful immigrants from countries which have produced many refugees in recent years have stretched into the thousands.
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Treating Cuban refugees the way all refugees are treated — requiring them to show proof that they are subject to political oppression — would be a more fair path to citizenship, she said.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) predict 620,000 registered and undocumented refugees will return to Afghanistan by the end of the year.
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Authorities were checking tips about a total of 400 potential Islamists among the refugees, but most of those had turned out to be false claims made by other refugees, he said.
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Hub aims to raise the quality of education for refugees and displaced people by generating knowledge and fostering collaboration among global and local stakeholders working to provide education to refugees. RefugeeEd.
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"In some of the other countries that refugees out of Germany have gone to, especially Jewish refugees, they found a number of definitely proven spies," he said at a press conference.
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Related: In Photos: The Sudanese Refugees Who Fled Intense Fighting and Aerial Bombardment Sudanese asylum-seekers who are not recognized as refugees find themselves at risk of forced return to Sudan.
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The Indian government has also argued that India is not signatory to the specific UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, nor the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.
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Britain in June said it would bring in a further 5,000 vulnerable refugees from the Middle East and Africa, extending a pledge that it would take 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020.
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New Zealand had offered to take in refugees, but the Australian government declined that offer, believing that lenient migration laws between the countries would allow refugees to eventually resettle in Australia.
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"The places of origin of many of the refugees in Dadaab are still very insecure," the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, told a news conference in Nairobi on Monday.
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Most refugees -- just over two-thirds of all refugees worldwide -- came from just five countries: Syria (633 million), Afghanistan (2.6 million), South Sudan (2.4 million), Myanmar (1.2 million) and Somalia (986,400).
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"She is in favor of even taking Syrian refugees even though the Islamic State has told us they are going to put their operatives in with the Syrian refugees," he thundered.
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Pew notes that the resettled refugees are different than asylum seekers and refugees who migrate without prior approval from the government, such as those attempting to cross the American southern border.
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In Germany, where nearly 70,000 Eritreans have settled, most are refugees who came to the country over the past five years, according to Germany&aposs Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.
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Trump's recent executive order would indefinitely bar Syrian refugees from settling in the U.S. "We continue to pursue our policies of openness towards immigration and refugees without compromising security," Trudeau said.
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The head of Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), Frank-Juergen Weise, told the newspaper that he expects a maximum of 300,000 refugees to arrive in Germany this year.
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The 25,000 Syrian refugees the Liberals have managed to bring over since they were elected in November are included in the goal of 55,800 new refugees and protected persons in 2016.
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Under the terms of the 2006 Refugees Act, refugees cannot own the land they cultivate, or the homes they live in – even if they have lived in the country for years.
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The order blocked entry to the United States for travelers and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries, barred Syrian refugees indefinitely, and effectively froze the refugee-admissions program for 26 days.
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Libya is a dangerous place, especially for migrants, but the recent wave of refugees overwhelmingly chose to travel via Libya (many Syrian refugees fly to Khartoum, in Sudan, and continue overland).
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While just 250 percent of them say they think Americans should house refugees, white mainline Protestants, black Protestants, and Catholics all express support for refugees by between 23 and 228 points.
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Although Somalia was the fifth-largest source of refugees for 2017 — with 986,400 people having refugee status — the number of Somali refugees actually declined by three percent from the previous year.
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It wasn't clear how many refugees the US would end up taking, and there was some confusion about what role the UN High Commissioner for Refugees would play in the process.
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The policy document, "Responding to Refugees and Migrants: Twenty Action Points," was released by the Vatican's section on Migrants and Refugees, a small department within the Vatican that Francis directly oversees.
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Turkey, which has already taken in 3.5 million Syrian refugees, worries that a military assault on Idlib could send a new wave of refugees and jihadists pouring across its southern border.
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Mr. Arkani said the community had raised money to send meat from 30 cows for the new wave of refugees in Bangladesh, as no new refugees were being allowed into Pakistan.
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IOM agents continue to greet refugees landing at our multiple ports of entry, but the number of refugees accepted to the United States is adjusted each year by the executive branch.
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Sweden has been a haven for refugees since the seventies, accepting more asylum seekers per capita than any other European nation, but the country's definition of political refugees had recently narrowed.
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Because there are so many nonprofit organizations, volunteers and government services here to support refugees, a decline in the number of refugees could lead to a withering of those support services.
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He signed an order to start building a border wall with Mexico, and planned to indefinitely block Syrian refugees while temporarily halting the admission of refugees from elsewhere in the world.
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"The solutions to this crisis lie inside Myanmar, and conditions must be established that will allow refugees to return home," UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in a statement.
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"There is one refugee who died of wounds sustained yesterday," Jean Claude Rwahama, ministry official in charge of refugees, told Reuters, adding that four police officers and five refugees were injured.
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The economic burden of refugees cannot be borne by one nation alone; it should be the responsibility of the international community, led by organizations like the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
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With no end to the war in sight, Filippo Grandi, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, predicted that 480,000 more Syrians would become refugees in need of resettlement this year.
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The order suspended entry of all refugees to the United States for 120 days, barred Syrian refugees indefinitely and blocked entry for 90 days for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries.
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Refugees can already register births and marriages, open bank accounts and buy mobile phone SIM cards, said Addisu Kebenessa, deputy director general of the government's Agency for Refugees and Returnees Affairs.
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And the policy comes as the number of refugees worldwide has soared: approximately doubling between 2012 and 2018 to more than 20 million, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said last week he would "absolutely do safe zones in Syria" for refugees escaping violence and that Europe had made a mistake by admitting millions of refugees.
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The secrecy about off-shore matters and refugees is a case in point, and Australians have accepted that secrecy in a shamefully docile manner along with the extraordinary cruelty toward refugees.
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Said it always helps our enemies & creates more refugees.
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The Paris killers are not — repeat, not — Syrian refugees.
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Australia's agreement to take in Central American refugees came after Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull attended Obama's summit on refugees in September 2016 — an irony, given that the US agreement to take in refugees from Australian detention centers was the subject of an acrimonious exchange between Trump and Turnbull just days after Trump took office.
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In exchange for accepting those refugees, Turkey — which is already hosting 1.9 million refugees — will get up to €6 billion in aid over the next two years, plus a promise from Europe to resettle one Syrian refugee from Turkey for each Syrian sent back from Greece, although that resettlement program is capped at 78,000 refugees.
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Congress is spoiling for a new fight over refugees headed to the U.S. Months after efforts failed in the Senate to impose new obstacles for Syrian refugees, the House is speeding through legislation to lower the number of refugees coming to the U.S. and give control of the issue to Congress — not the executive branch.
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EU diplomats have warned of a fresh humanitarian crisis and a setback in the effort to counter and contain IS. Turkey hosts the largest number of refugees in the world, with 3.6 million registered Syrian nationals in 2018 and 40,000 refugees and asylum-seekers of other nationalities, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Nauert didn't specify whether she'd actually polled the world's population of more than 270 million refugees, but Nazanin Ash, vice president for global policy and advocacy and the International Rescue Committee, one of nine national organizations working with the State Department to resettle refugees, said returning home simply isn't an option for most refugees.
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Nauert didn't specify whether she'd actually polled the world's population of more than 513 million refugees, but Nazanin Ash, vice president for global policy and advocacy and the International Rescue Committee, one of nine national organizations working with the State Department to resettle refugees, said returning home simply isn't an option for most refugees.
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Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit today against Trump's order, which bars legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S. and bans Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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Trump's order also suspended refugee resettlement, and it suggested that Christian refugees and other minorities from the Muslim world would be given preference once refugees were again allowed into the United States.
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For much of the Trump administration, it's fully refused to resettle refugees from Syria; they're currently subject to enhanced screening beyond the two-year process that refugees typically have to go through.
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Australia should have honored its obligations under the Refugees Convention by processing and providing protection in Australia to people judged to be refugees, instead of asking the US to shoulder those responsibilities.
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Trump's order barred foreign nationals from Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Yemen from entering the country for 90 days, all refugees for 120 days, and all refugees from Syria indefinitely.
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Trump's ban on refugees is already having global consequences Trump's ban on refugees is already having global consequences Updated on January 703 to reflect the latest information on Donald Trump's executive order.
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The U.S. has resettled roughly 30,000 refugees since the start of the fiscal year in October, so a maximum 19813,000 more refugees would be let in during Trump's first year in office.
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Refugees The orders on immigration, a congressional aide said, are expected to include restrictions on refugees, and people with some visas from countries including Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya.
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Studying climate migration, reversing a Trump administration to remove protections for refugees from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras and Nicaragua, and pledging to increase the number of refugees resettled by the United States.
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Since 1975, the United States has welcomed in more than three million refugees from all over the world, and each year, typically admit nearly two thirds of the world&aposs settled refugees.
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The report also highlights Hungary's hardline stance on refugees under Orban, Australia's system of offshore detention, and the EU-Turkey refugee deal as examples of governments turning a cold shoulder to refugees.
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More than 30 governors have tried to block refugees from their states, but courts and attorneys general have said it is up to the federal government to screen refugees and settle them.
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Last year, Italian and Maltese ports began refusing ships with refugees on board permission to enter their harbors, leaving ships to wait for days with refugees on board on the Mediterranean Sea.
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Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit today against Trump's order, which bars legal immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US and bans Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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Hundreds of refugees who have been granted asylum and are waiting to be reunited with their families are being forced to pay overpriced fares for their flights, Syrian refugees told BuzzFeed News.
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The Trump administration has again cut the number of refugees allowed into the U.S., and the overwhelming majority of the small group of refugees who were admitted this past year are Christians.
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For many Europeans, the thorny and longer-term issue of integration – especially of refugees of other religious backgrounds and cultures - is as important as the immediate logistics of safeguarding and rehousing refugees.
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In practice, however, many countries fail to honour their obligations to refugees, and plenty of economic migrants pose as refugees because they see no other legal way to enter a rich country.
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And in June the company celebrated the one-year anniversary of Coursera for Refugees, a program that partners with nonprofits to bring high-quality education to refugees at no cost to them.
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"Refugees working at SAP are totally motivated, and this motivates our colleagues to support them," Uli Joos, project leader for refugees at Europe's biggest software company SAP , told Reuters in an interview.
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Lebanon hosts more than 1 million Syrian refugees, equal to more than a quarter of its population, and Bassil told reporters Beirut saw no reason for refugees to remain on its territory.
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The Center for Migration Studies of New York recently compared 241m refugees who arrived in America between 237 and 753, with comparable non-refugees, the foreign-born, and the total American population.
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"In Norway, we see that municipalities that have been good at mapping refugees competencies, working with the business community or education institutions ... are very good at getting refugees into work," he said.
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But over the past decade, the Pakistani government has been working to repatriate many of these refugees, including a large number of the almost 1 million refugees living in the Peshawar district.
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Human Rights Watch urged the European Union to expand refugee resettlement programs and to issue humanitarian visas in "places of first refuge," like Lebanon (for Syrian refugees) and Pakistan (for Afghan refugees).
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The closure of the so-called Balkan route into northern Europe, and the failure of European leaders to resettle and relocate refugees, has left almost 60,000 refugees and migrants stranded in Greece.
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The project plays like a video along a 15-year timeline; one yellow dot represents about 17 refugees leaving a country, while one red dot represents about 17 refugees arriving somewhere else.
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"The Independent Paralympic Team is a symbol of the strength and determination of all refugees with disabilities in overcoming significant odds," UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in a release.
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And she wants Trump — who enacted a legally dubious indefinite ban on Syrian refugees from entering the U.S. in January — to take a page from the Turkish PM's book on supporting refugees.
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Humanitarian aid worker offers biscuits and dates to refugees after they arrived to the transit center for refugees near northern Macedonian village of Tabanovce, before continuing their journey to Serbia on Jan.
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The order also puts an indefinite halt on letting in refugees from Syria, which has been embroiled in a civil war for almost 6 years that has displaced over 4.8 million refugees.
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Even worse, admitting these refugees under the refugee program will take slots away from other refugees who need the program most—those without any legal way to come to the United States.
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In the autumn of 2015, several of the ISIS Paris and Brussels attack cell posed as refugees to gain entry into Europe, during a huge influx of refugees through Turkey and Greece.
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It's unclear how many refugees have crossed the border, but community leaders in different camps in Bangladesh said at least 3,500 new refugees have entered the country in the last five days.
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After visiting Lesbos, the Greek island where thousands of migrants and refugees are held in camps, Pope Francis unexpectedly took 12 Muslim Syrian refugees back to the Vatican as a humanitarian gesture.
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Jordan has started to allow Syrian refugees to work in its industrial firms and in export zones where manufacturers are now allowed to have refugees make up 25 percent of their workforce.
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But scholars differ over the long-term economic impact of accepting refugees, which can depress low-skilled workers' wages and require all workers to help pay for social services that refugees receive.
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The Trump administration reportedly plans to cut all funding to a United Nations agency that dispenses aid to Palestinian refugees over its concerns on the number of refugees recognized by the organization.
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Unrest among refugees here could not only endanger Jordanian citizens, but it would also play into fear-mongering about refugees' being dangerous when, in fact, they are usually the ones in danger.
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California's screening results show that nine percent of refugees were infected with tuberculosis, 18.6 percent suffered from dental caries, and nearly 28 percent of refugees from African nations suffered from schistosomiasis. ADVERTISEMENT
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The money went to the Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the U.N. agency that assists refugees and displaced persons, and is intended to help Venezuelans who have fled to Brazil and Colombia.
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Signed Friday, the executive order bars travelers from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia for 85033 days; blocks refugees from all countries for 120 days; and bans Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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"We have huge programmes to assist refugees here in Lebanon... part of that is to talk to the refugees and to listen, listen to their concerns, listen to their needs," she added.
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Indigenous Chakma and Hajong refugees who left Bangladesh more than five decades ago have limited citizenship in India, but not land rights, while Tibetan refugees get welfare benefits, but no property rights.
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Many refugees complain U.N. agencies and donors have focused on costly projects that help improve security rather than bettering the lives of refugees by generating employment for many of the camps' youths.
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Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told the news conference Germany should rethink rules that limit deportations of refugees for medical reasons, and significantly lower hurdles to deporting refugees who break the law.
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Countries that are hosting millions of Syrian refugees, including Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan, have cited those talks and the de-escalation agreement as reasons to press for the refugees to return home.
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Likewise, the Diffa region of Niger is heroic in taking in refugees from northern Nigeria, and it now resettles refugees at extraordinarily high rates, helping the newcomers rather than demonizing them. 9.
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In addition, the budget proposal would virtually eliminate funding for the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, which for years has worked to help refugees resettle in the United States.
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Turkey has encouraged Syrian refugees to move to Europe as part of a policy that appears to use refugees to wring concessions and support from European countries for Ankara's role in Syria.
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Fereshteh Ganjavi, who arrived from Afghanistan in 2013 and now works at Integrated Refugees, said the meal is particularly powerful for refugees who arrive after years of exile from their home country.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, the Turkish government provided some of the buses to bring these refugees, most of them Syrian refugees who were already in Turkey, to the Greek border.
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After protracted negotiations, Latvia agreed to accept up to 776 refugees over the next two years, under the European Union's faltering effort to resettle refugees among all of its 28 member states.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said an estimated 22015,22016 refugees from all over the world would be impacted immediately by the executive order that freezes refugee resettlement for 22003 days.
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The Trump administration has steadily cut the number of refugees admitted into the U.S. overall, proposing capping the number of refugees at 45,000 in 2017, 30,000 in 85033 and 18,000 in 2019.
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"This measure completely ignores the welcome that communities have provided to refugees, as well as the important contributions resettled refugees have made to these communities all across the country," Ms. Sime said.
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Policymakers at the state and federal level should ensure that refugees can resettle safely in the U.S. and other countries – and should reject legislation that would send refugees back to unsafe situations.
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All of you who blame the attack on the refugees-welcome politics, please tell me one thing: How could a more rejecting and hostile stance towards refugees have prevented any of this?
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Congolese and Burmese refugees — who made up more than half of the 30,000 refugees accepted last year — will compete with people of other nationalities for the limited spaces in that general pool.
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Trump has pushed to take a hardline stance on allowing refugees into the U.S. The president is looking to limit the number of refugees coming into the U.S. to 50,000 in 2017.
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He says that Jordan has also been more welcoming to refugees than almost any other country, taking in over one million Syrian refugees ("pretty good for a population of just ten million").
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As of November, at least 430 refugees have been resettled in the United States, according to American officials, under a deal brokered by President Barack Obama to accept up to 1,250 refugees.
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India is home to hundreds of thousands of immigrants and refugees, but does not have a legal framework for dealing with them and has not signed the 1951 UN Convention for Refugees.
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This more fairly divides the burden of handling refugees, making it more politically tenable, and it ensures that refugees have someplace to go, so that they're not stuck in camps like Calais.
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