And it's proving extremely difficult, and expensive, to resettle them.
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Seventy percent of the families we resettle are family reunifications.
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Does the United States allow private sponsors to resettle 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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It expects to resettle another 300 this week, mostly in France.
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Groups who resettle refugees have grown increasingly concerned over the extensions.
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They have waited three years to resettle in the United States.
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Past Australian efforts to resettle asylum seekers elsewhere ran into hurdles.
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The latest group is expected to resettle in California and Virginia.
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Force fandom out of this place and make us resettle elsewhere.
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He was granted emergency home leave to help his family resettle.
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Then an American church group offered to resettle them in Oklahoma.
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Her family had then planned to resettle in the United States.
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Brussels wants to resettle into Hungary a city full of migrants.
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In return, Australia will resettle refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
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In return, Australia would resettle refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
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The nonprofit groups that help resettle refugees began to feel the impact.
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The Home Office has agreed to resettle 480 under the Dubs scheme.
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"I am trying to find information to help them resettle," he said.
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The state was given five years to resettle 2003,000 to 4,000 residents.
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At least 41 governors have consented to resettle refugees in their state.
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The task force aims to resettle those left in limbo in Libya.
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But the June announcement to resettle 22,211 residents seemed a more realistic goal.
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Erdogan hopes to resettle Syrian refugees there, in apparent violation of international law.
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Australia refuses to resettle refugees who attempt to reach its shores by boat.
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With this budget, the government is laying the groundwork to resettle 10,000 more.
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No market-based policy is going to equitably resettle the residents of Miami.
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Under the agreement, Australia is to resettle refugees from three Central American countries.
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The entity would resettle gay refugees and help them with housing and jobs.
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Older people are less likely to switch jobs and resettle than younger people.
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Refugees can wait their whole lives for a third country to resettle them.
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Determining where and how to resettle successful asylum claimants across EU member states.
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The Giraffe Center uses proceeds to help breed and resettle endangered Rothschild's giraffes.
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Its current goal is to represent 10 to 12 percent of all global refugee resettlements — in other words, how many refugees Canada aims to resettle in the coming years depends primarily on how many refugees other governments agree to resettle.
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An executive order requires written consent from state and local governments to allow refugees to resettle there An executive order requires written consent from state and local governments to allow refugees to resettle there The moratorium, set to continue through Nov.
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While the UNHCR hopes to resettle many of them, it is a lengthy process.
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What makes the project unique is that it doesn't just aim to resettle individuals.
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His solution was simple enough: resettle individuals from the impoverished island to the mainland.
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The agreement's deeper promise was to resettle refugees to Europe in an orderly fashion.
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America is already struggling to meet its pledge to resettle 10,000 Syrians this year.
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He also ridiculed as "nonsense" an old colonial proposal to resettle Jews in Africa.
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Out of desperation, thousands of displaced families have turned to the mainland to resettle.
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Options include boosting funding to specific countries, agreeing to resettle refugees and deploying peacekeepers.
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Attempts in recent years to resettle some of them in Cambodia and Malaysia collapsed.
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Herbert's letter doesn't specify how many refugees he hopes will resettle in his state.
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Rescuing the rescuers hinged on securing written promises from Western countries to resettle them.
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Efforts to resettle some of the detainees in third countries have seen little success.
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Last year, the United Nations sought pledges to resettle 500,000 Syrians around the world.
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Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to resettle 650,000 displaced Rohingya Muslims within 2 years
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First, Church World Service and the other organizations that resettle refugees cheered the news.
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But, at the last minute, something went wrong with their application to resettle in America.
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Under the deal, Australia will in return resettle refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
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In 1994, he says, his family was the first from Somalia to resettle in Utah.
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Israel agreed to resettle the residents in an area some 73 kilometers (seven miles) away.
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Israel agreed to resettle the residents in an area some 12 kilometers (seven miles) away.
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Norway had pledged to resettle just 9,000 Syrian refugees as of the end of 2015.
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But the programme would have to be much bigger to resettle the bulk of refugees.
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It means working to resettle Syrians, even if the president is ranting about terrorist infiltration.
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Of those inmates, the government expects to resettle 35 in other countries by this summer.
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The plan to resettle about a dozen inmates was first reported by the Washington Post.
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Cazeneuve urged Britain last week to step up efforts to identify and resettle child migrants.
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The Obama administration only resettled 22016,22017 refugees the year it was trying to resettle 123,212.
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A $13 million federal grant has been allocated to resettle its residents because of flooding.
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Australia has paid Cambodia $42 million to resettle refugees — only two have been successfully resettled.
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Despite that ceiling, the United States is on pace to resettle only 21,000 this year.
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The French government last week urged Britain to step up its efforts to resettle them.
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I wish that Entidhar could resettle here because, firstly, most of my family is here.
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The Trump administration restricted organizations that resettle under 100 refugees annually from obtaining federal funding.
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We are on pace in 2018 to resettle the fewest number of refugees since 1977.
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"She said the Australian government will allow me to resettle in Australia," Karake told POLITICO.
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Mr. Kazee's family home burned down recently, and he has been helping his father resettle.
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In 2000, 22025 countries committed to resettle refugees; today, just 25 have active resettlement programs.
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The South Korean government helps them resettle by providing job training, rent and other subsidies.
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Citing security concerns, Mr. Pence had ordered a stop to efforts to resettle Syrian refugees.
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It also forced the C.I.A. to resettle others who had provided assistance to the agency.
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Kennedy resettle in New York, a few blocks up Fifth Avenue from an apartment Mrs.
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State and local governments must give written consent to let refugees resettle within their boundaries.
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As federal lawmakers dither, state and local taxpayers are watching the tab to resettle islanders grow.
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Thailand deported two others late last year despite a U.N. plan to resettle them in Canada.
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In June, UNHCR agreed to a plan to resettle 150,1003 residents by the end of 2016.
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The lawsuit was filed after the IRC announced that it would help resettle refugees in Dallas.
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The organization, a plaintiff in the ACLU and National Immigration Law Center's challenge, helps resettle refugees.
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They need countries to follow through on their promises to relocate and resettle families like Ahmed's.
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Those forces have accused Turkey of expelling Afrin's residents to resettle other people, which Ankara denies.
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That summer, the Vo family was allowed to resettle in Ba Ria, where Danh was born.
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They'll buy up homes and resettle everyone, insisting that new is so much better than old.
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South Korea will have its hands full with trying to resettle its own newly homeless citizens.
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The Obama administration has vowed to press ahead with its plans to resettle refugees despite criticism.
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Erdogan wants to reclaim a large "safe zone" of land in northern Syria to resettle them.
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For every boast about job creation or judge appointments, there were more old scores to resettle.
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But he thought he understood better why some people feel a moral obligation to resettle refugees.
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Having made his fortune and avoiding service, he tried to resettle in Germany to no avail.
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UNICEF urged other EU countries to increase offers to resettle refugees and speed up family reunifications.
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In Texas, Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston is funded to resettle about 600 refugees per year.
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The order directed states and localities to provide written consent to resettle refugees in their jurisdictions.
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"It's a better use of taxpayer dollars to resettle people closer to home," the official said.
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"But I was forced to resettle, to move out of Syria because of the regime," he said.
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The EU also vowed to resettle an equivalent number of refugees from Turkey within other EU states.
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In June, UNHCR agreed to a plan to resettle 150,000 Dadaab residents by the end of 2016.
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And although Mr Sobyanin has promised to resettle residents within their current districts, many stretch for miles.
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They are expected to resettle in the United States once the medical procedures are completed in Barcelona.
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In addition, for each Syrian sent back, the European Union would resettle a Syrian refugee from Turkey.
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The way the Australian government treated him on Manus makes him not want to resettle in Australia.
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Though the agencies are independent, they must get government approval for where they will resettle new refugees.
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Last year, the United States helped resettle more than 19,000 of those most vulnerable Syrians from Jordan.
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Reducing the number of people allowed to resettle in America will leave thousands trapped in horrendous situations.
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The Obama administration did not try to resettle them in its first term, hoping Yemen would stabilize.
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One major question remains unanswered: Who will own the land on which the community plans to resettle?
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Trump's executive order directed states and localities to provide written consent to resettle refugees in their jurisdictions.
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The Indiana policy prevented state agencies from making payments to a nonprofit that helped resettle Syrian refugees.
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The British government refused to resettle the new arrivals, hoping that the government of Cyprus would do so.
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But the US is unprepared to aid and resettle Syrian refugees should the current offensive create another crisis.
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It's why so many Parisians resettle to New York, specifically Brooklyn, to either start or continue their careers.
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Jericho has been helping refugees resettle since Vietnamese families started arriving during that war in the 1970's.
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Ankara says it wants to create a "safe zone" to resettle millions of refugees currently living in Turkey.
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Years later, Friedrich would attempt to return to Germany to resettle, the Associated Press reported back in 2016.
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In exchange for the U.S. taking them in, Australia would resettle refugees from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
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At one point he bought 80 sheep and made a plan to resettle in Turkey, as a shepherd.
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In 22019, the U.N. Refugee Agency said they needed $1,057 to help Syrian refugees resettle in neighboring countries.
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I would welcome any Puerto Rican who wants to permanently resettle in Florida to register to vote here.
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A 13 Mumbai court ruling made it mandatory for officials in India's financial hub to resettle displaced people.
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Although over three-quarters of them have been declared refugees, the Australian government has failed to resettle them.
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After finding success in the U.S., Friedrich Trump attempted to resettle in Germany, according to The Associated Press.
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Europe's commitment to resettle 20,000 refugees over two years, on a voluntary basis, remains "very low", he said.
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So when people look at Europe, they're not seeing refugees like those we resettle in the United States.
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For other Afghan interpreters and translators, however, the chance to resettle in the US might be slipping away.
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Jim Estill, CEO of Ontario-based appliance company Danby, is going to extraordinary lengths to help people resettle.
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Over a 85033-year period, refugees contributed $21,000 more in taxes than the initial investment to resettle them.
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The big picture: Turkey wants to force Kurdish forces from its border region and resettle Syrian refugees there.
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Local resources to resettle refugees also might have shrunk had Texas decided not to accept them in 2020.
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They had been cleared to resettle in Nashville — a new life that Mr. Shareef considered a great opportunity.
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The smugglers' aim was to resettle in Valenciennes, a French town near the Belgian border known for lace.
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He'll announce commitments from other countries to resettle more refugees or increase their financial support for relief efforts.
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Millions of residents lost their homes, and hundreds of thousands are expected to resettle in the U.S. mainland.
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I would volunteer in an instant to help resettle a Syrian family, as many of my friends would.
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It may even offer us a way to evaluate dispassionately how many refugees we should resettle every year.
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Despite the restrictions, Trump on Sunday assured Australia the United States would honor its agreement to resettle the refugees.
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Turkey also plans to resettle two million Syrian refugees in a safe zone in that part of northern Syria.
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But he said the scheme would remain "limited in scale" as long as commitments to resettle refugees remained "insufficient".
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More recently, he has focused his financial efforts around helping Syrians refugees resettle on the Greek island of Lesbos.
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Whether the village has been successful in convincing emigrants to return and helping them to resettle is less clear.
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A "safe zone" would be set up in Syria to resettle refugees, 3.6 million of whom are in Turkey.
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"We applied to United Nations, and we just wanted any place to resettle and to be safe," she said.
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In exchange for every person sent back, the EU will resettle one Syrian refugee currently trapped in Turkish camps.
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"We have committed through the Immigration Act 2016 to resettle vulnerable children from Europe," a Home Office spokesman said.
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The deal commits the EU to resettle one migrant from Turkey for every migrant it turns back from Greece.
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His office said he would call on countries to resettle at least a tenth of the world's refugee population.
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Children could then be vaccinated and go to school, refugees could resettle and relief organizations could do their work.
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Critics of the refugee resettlement program claim we don't need to resettle refugees when we can support them abroad.
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On Thursday, Hakparn told reporters that her father had objected to sending Qunun to resettle in a third country.
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And in 2009, two al-Qaeda terrorist bomb-makers successfully infiltrated the Iraqi refugee program to resettle in Kentucky.
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Under the plan, nomads herding animals on grasslands newly classified as "nongrazing pastures" are offered subsidies to resettle elsewhere.
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More opportunities to resettle, be reunited with families, study and work abroad will reduce the need for perilous journeys.
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Mr. Obaydullah had already heard a rumor that the United Arab Emirates had agreed to resettle him, he said.
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Most of them are from chaos-ridden Yemen, so the administration is seeking to resettle them somewhere more stable.
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Currently, less than 1 percent of all refugees have the opportunity to resettle in another country, Shum pointed out.
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You might be wondering why no one has tried to resettle the town — that's where the legend comes in.
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Like many Republican-controlled legislatures, officials in Kansas have resisted efforts to resettle Syrian refugees in the state. Gov.
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South Korea helps more than 1,000 refugees from North Korea resettle annually in the South and gives them subsidies.
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Fixes Global policies that aim to resettle and integrate displaced populations into local societies are providing a way forward.
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He wants to resettle refugees in a swath of Syrian territory controlled by the U.S. and its Kurdish allies.
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Ms. Groff, 315, grew up just outside the city, in a Mennonite family that regularly helped to resettle refugees.
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What do you think will happen to the United States resettlement agencies if there are fewer refugees to resettle?
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For instance, refugees seeking to resettle in the US must clear a host of medical, security and background checks.
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Ankara says it plans to create a "safe zone" to resettle millions of refugees currently living on Turkish soil.
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To encourage Singapore's street hawkers to resettle into the centers in the 1970s, the government heavily subsidized hawker rentals.
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The U.S., meanwhile, suspended a decade-old program to resettle a small number of the refugees arriving in Malta.
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It says refugees should resettle in a future state the Palestinians seek in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza.
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However, it could also be argued that poorer residents won't be able to migrate because they can't afford to resettle.
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Brazil plans to double the number of border guards and help Venezuelans resettle to other cities in the country's interior.
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Brussels wants to forcibly resettle numbers of illegal migrants the size of a city into Hungary," and "Did you know?
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To do it, the budget is committing $245 million over five years, starting this year, to resettle the next wave.
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State Department efforts to transfer detainees home or resettle them in a third country have steadily reduced the inmate population.
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America continued to resettle refugees after the end of the cold war, and remains the UNHCR's biggest donor by far.
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With a first-of-its-kind "climate resilience" grant to resettle the island's native residents, Washington is ready to help.
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The country, founded as part of an effort to resettle freed American slaves, has deep ties to the United States.
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In fact, the United States government is far behind on its goal to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees into our country.
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Our roads and bridges fell into disrepair, yet we found the money to resettle millions of refugees at taxpayer expense.
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The real question, for which the administration has no answer whatsoever, is how to do successfully resettle Syrian religious minorities.
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Donald Trump and his administration do not share their predecessors' sense of obligation to resettle refugees in the United States.
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After they're deported, they may resettle in a different part of their home country and not want their whereabouts known.
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The Chinese government has made efforts to hold back the growth of deserts and to resettle people in those regions.
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Retiring In Florida, one city is not waiting for retirees to show up but is recruiting them to resettle there.
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So she asked for leads from the International Rescue Committee, the agency helping her family resettle in the United States.
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American laws at the time posed a tremendous obstacle to the Nellhaus family's attempts to resettle in the United States.
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Papua New Guinea has offered to allow the detainees to resettle there, but thus far only a handful have accepted.
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Scott also indicated that he hopes to resettle more refugees, according to the letter obtained by the Burlington Free Press.
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He added that it had undermined efforts to resettle refugees in the United States under a deal struck in 6543.
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He also said he would resettle at least a million Syrian refugees, now living in Turkey, into those areas conquered.
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They know that the Trump administration doesn't feel a global obligation to resettle refugees — because Trump himself has said so.
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North Korea has accused South Korea of kidnapping them, while South Korea says they decided to resettle on their own will.
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Australia this week turned down an offer by New Zealand to resettle some of the refugees held on Manus and Nauru.
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He had recently emerged from a coma in a camp in Uganda and was waiting for approval to resettle in Missoula.
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Clinton does support allowing people forced from their homes by Syria's long civil war to resettle here in the United States.
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But nonprofit organizations can still join forces with the International Rescue Committee to help refugees resettle in New Jersey, McCaffrey said.
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So the Germans are changing tack, seeking allies willing to help them resettle hundreds of thousands of Syrians directly from Turkey.
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Eastern European countries are opposing a quota system to resettle migrants with Hungary planning a referendum to let the public choose.
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Australia's immigration minister, Peter Dutton, has refused an offer from the government of New Zealand to allow refugees to resettle there.
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The declaration wants to ensure the rights of migrants, help them resettle and provide them with access to education and jobs.
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The declaration aims to ensure the rights of migrants, help them resettle and provide them with access to education and jobs.
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Finally, in 2014, the Obama administration stopped waiting for Yemen to stabilize and began pressing other countries to resettle stranded Yemenis.
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Mr. Diyab's disappearance has provided fodder for those who want to shut down the administration's efforts to resettle lower-level detainees.
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It notes that she cosponsored legislation to do so and highlights her work as secretary of State to resettle Guantanamo prisoners.
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Thousands who spent their life savings on a bid to resettle in Europe are being told it's time to head home.
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Archbishop Tobin insisted that his archdiocese would continue to resettle Syrian refugees in Indiana, despite attempts to bar them by Gov.
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The prospect that millions of Palestinians could someday resettle in Israel is seen by many Israelis and their supporters as impossible.
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"The displacement of millions of people due to rising seas will cause additional impacts where these populations resettle," the researchers write.
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Separately, Mr. Carter increased the number of Southeast Asian boat refugees who were allowed to resettle here after the Vietnam War.
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"We are just going from one tragedy to a bigger tragedy," said Muhammad Jaffa, an engineer who helps resettle displaced people.
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One attempt was made to resettle the Bikinians in the late 238s when some 22008 residents were returned to their atoll.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, said the government would first resettle refugee women, children and families.
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Mike Pence of Indiana, now the Republican vice-presidential nominee, by insisting that Catholic Charities continue to resettle refugees from Syria.
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Since taking office, Mr. Trump has reduced the number of refugees that the United States is willing to resettle every year.
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For a year, our reporters have been following Syrian refugee families and the Canadians who have helped them resettle in Toronto.
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Choe In-guk, 73, arrived in Pyongyang on Saturday to "resettle permanently," according to a North Korean state-run news website.
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Choe In-guk, 73, arrived in Pyongyang on Saturday to "resettle permanently," according to a North Korean state-run news website.
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It argues that refugees should resettle in a future state the Palestinians seek in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza.
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"It's a sad story because the government has been trying to resettle the people residing in the area," Lencho told CNN Monday.
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There are two goals: drive the Kurds away from their border, and use this area to resettle around 2 million Syrian refugees.
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"Those in the Manus Island Regional Processing Center found to be refugees are able to resettle in Papua New Guinea," he added.
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Saudi Arabia shows up because it hosts an enormous number of migrant workers, not immigrants who resettle, as in the United States.
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For every Syrian migrant who returns, the EU has offered to directly resettle a Syrian refugee already there in a European country.
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Number of the day 10,000 The target number of Syrian refugees the Obama administration plans to resettle in the US this year.
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Relocation has also been underway, with the governments of neighboring Belarus working to resettle areas and fix infrastructure in the Exclusion Zone.
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Christian organizations have been among the most active in helping resettle refugees, but that doesn't mean some among their flock aren't anxious.
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Starting in the late 1960s, the government moved to formally resettle street vendors into organized centers with seating and strict sanitation requirements.
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Through the work of the USCCB, bishops are active in helping to resettle refugees and to assist unaccompanied children in this country.
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They're also more likely to be stuck as refugees because countries where they'd like to resettle are unwilling to offer them asylum.
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It involves a "one-for-one" policy: for every Syrian returned from Greece to Turkey, the EU will resettle another from Turkey.
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Tawergha remains abandoned and in ruins, and it is not clear how residents can resettle there before basic infrastructure has been restored.
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Sham and the rest of her family — her parents and three siblings — have received conditional approval to resettle in the United States.
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Sediment kicked up by underwater mining would dissolve and resettle, and there would be no carbon emissions, unlike on land, he noted.
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The Obama administration has made a sustained diplomatic push to persuade Persian Gulf states to resettle detainees from troubled countries like Yemen.
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Some 54% said it was unlikely they will permanently resettle in Syria, while 42% said it was likely and 4% were unsure.
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With damage now unavoidable, Senegal's government and the World Bank are mobilising to resettle nearly 303,230 people from the city's riskiest zone.
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In the United States alone, the group helped resettle 9,961 refugees and provided services to many more, including victims of human trafficking.
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An estimated 2,000 islanders have been leaving each day, many intent on using their American citizenship to resettle among relatives in Florida.
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Wealthier countries must admit and resettle significantly more than the less than 1 percent of the world's refugee population resettled in 2017.
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Many of them are still homeless despite a court ruling that the Lagos state government should resettle those affected by the demolition.
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Australia refuses to resettle any refugee who has arrived by boat since the date the tough policy was announced, July 19, 2013.
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Op-Ed Contributor SYDNEY, Australia — Like many Western countries, Australia has agreed to resettle refugees from the wars in Syria and Iraq.
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The Trump administration has also gone to great lengths to limit who — and how many people — can resettle in the United States.
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Both women urged Australia to reconsider an offer reiterated last month by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to resettle 150 refugees.
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The IRC worked to resettle refugees in Europe dislocated from conflict in World War II, and their work continues around the world.
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" UNHCR spokeswoman Vannina Maestracci said that those who resettle in America "are some of the most vetted individuals entering the United States.
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Beyond that, Timmermans said, it would be necessary for European states to offer many more places to resettle asylum seekers from Turkey.
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Hoang, whose French-speaking family fled Vietnam in 1979 to resettle in Montreal, says it wasn't easy getting locals on board initially.
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Kim's spokeswoman Janet Snyder said authorities at the time developed a strategy called the Kaikoo Plan which would resettle residents in six months.
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"It's a sad story because the government has been trying to resettle the people residing in the area," Communications Minister Negeri Lencho said.
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"It's a sad story because the government has been trying to resettle the people residing in the area," the country's communication minister said.
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The Obama administration had pushed to resettle at least 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States as part of humanitarian efforts in 2016.
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Europe's commitments to resettle refugees remained "very low compared to the needs, 20,000 places within two years on a voluntary places," it said.
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The deadline for spending the federal funds is set for September 2022, and the state is hoping to resettle the community by then.
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Turkey wants to ensure that the US-allied Kurdish forces withdraw from these areas, and to resettle around 2 million Syrian refugees there.
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That is the surprising percentage of the world's 0003 million refugees who will resettle in another country after fleeing their war-torn homes.
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One of the early hallmarks of Trudeau's government was his aggressive — and, generally successful — plan to resettle 403,000 Syrian refugees in three months.
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Once flows have started to fall, Europe could begin a much more ambitious attempt to resettle refugees directly from the region around Syria.
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At first, the plan was to resettle her family in D.C. while also advocating for women in some yet-to-be-named capacity.
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"The Australian government needs to lift its refugee quota to resettle at least 30,000 Syrian men, women and children this year," Sayed said.
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What's going to need to happen is for governments to step in and do more to help — and, in particular, to resettle people.
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The agency would resettle the scientist and his family and provide long-term benefits, including paying for the children's college and graduate school.
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Every country assesses the legitimacy of the claims of persecution and should do its share to resettle those whose claims meet legal standards.
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Ankara has said it plans to resettle in Syria up to 2 million of the 3.6 million Syrian war refugees that it hosts.
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Last year, the EU agreed to resettle tens of thousands of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa in each member state.
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Canada will resettle up to 50 White Helmets and their families, a Canadian official with direct knowledge of the resettlement efforts told CNN.
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A federal appeals court halted Pence's attempt at preventing social service agencies from helping resettle refugees from certain countries in Indiana, AP added.
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"Each case is unique," Peter Earnest, a 35-year CIA veteran who helped resettle multiple former Soviet officials in the US, told CNN.
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European officials would assess the asylum applications of Syrian refugees — and directly resettle those whose applications are approved — from refugee camps in Turkey.
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Nor did it help that he was compelled by the INS to resettle in London, apparently because he never became a U.S. citizen.
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Canberra has so far refused offers by New Zealand to resettle refugees, arguing that this option would be too appealing to asylum seekers.
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The fate of those still housed there, in light of a promised deal to resettle the refugees in the United States, remains unclear.
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Few refugees have accepted offers to resettle in Papua New Guinea and Cambodia because most hope that Australia will eventually take them in.
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Dutton has said the government wants that legislation made law before it names the country or countries prepared to resettle Australia's asylum seekers.
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The Obama administration had agreed to resettle hundreds of the refugees from Manus and Nauru, but this year President Trump questioned that decision.
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They are also fearful that the deal to resettle them in the United States will unravel, making the new camp a permanent home.
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Without the legal right to work or resettle, many migrants end up trapped in slavery and afraid to speak out or seek help.
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Now, they own two houses and have two dogs and good jobs at Kentucky Refugee Ministries, the agency that helped resettle them here.
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We should also ensure that those we resettle can build lives of dignity and that their presence is beneficial to the United States.
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Agency officials may take up to 10 days to determine whether she qualifies for refugee status and, if so, where she could resettle.
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It will honor preexisting international agreements (presumably a reference with an agreement to Australia to resettle some refugees currently being detained in Nauru).
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The administration also has advocated that it is more cost-effective to resettle refugees overseas rather than relocate people to the United States.
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Under the pact, the EU will resettle thousands of legal Syrian refugees directly from Turkey — one for each Syrian returned from the Greek islands.
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But, with Turkish public sentiment towards them souring, Ankara hopes to resettle up to two million in the planned safe zone in northeast Syria.
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The country has also been steadfast in its unwillingness to resettle any of those people, even those who are eventually granted official refugee status.
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He had nearly completed both and was trying to figure out how to take final exams when Montenegro offered to resettle him, she said.
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Scott Arbeiter is president of World Relief, an evangelical Christian organization that works with the US government to resettle refugees in the United States.
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Under the pact, the EU will resettle thousands of legal Syrian refugees directly from Turkey - one for each Syrian returned from the Greek islands.
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Even if these refugees were to return home, it is unlikely they would be able to resettle peacefully without fear of violence and oppression.
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Several countries shot down an earlier draft of the declaration that called on nations to resettle 10 percent of the refugee population each year.
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U.S. officials said Tuesday the government has either concluded or is in the final stages of agreements with several countries to resettle 35 detainees.
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But nearly eight months into an effort to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States, Mr. Obama's administration has admitted just over 2,500.
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Attracted by the state's low taxes and a dry, sunny climate, elderly people leave their families behind to resettle in newly constructed senior communities.
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"The United States will continue to resettle the most vulnerable refugees while prioritizing the safety and security of the American people," the spokesperson said.
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Beyond that, it will need to rethink its long-term approach to Afghan refugees and how to resettle more abroad in the years ahead.
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In 183, President Park Geun-hye promised that South Korea would pitch in to help resettle millions of refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war.
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The earlier plan: Netanyahu's office had previously announced an "unprecedented common understanding" with the U.N. to resettle at least 16,250 to unnamed Western countries.
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Once in Australia, the Sharrouf children will be released into the custody of their grandmother while the Rizvic children resettle in Melbourne, it added.
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During that same decade, Palauans began to resettle in the central town of Koror to take jobs in tourism and the new national government.
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In some countries, enough political will exists to resettle refugees, but not enough to win spending battles at a time of tight public finances.
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Instead, it found that Mr. Lee, deeply fed up with both the North and South Korean governments, wanted to resettle in a third country.
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Yet because this onetime nurse had the spiritual wherewithal to resettle in Barcelona, she got to make music with fellow Sahrawis and many others.
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It sounds like the people of Vault 76 were taught it was their duty to resettle the wastes, which could be an interesting premise.
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The hope is that the highly adaptable rock pigeons will be happy to resettle there rather than be tempted to make the return flight.
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In 1790, just after drafting the Bill of Rights, Madison argued in a letter for creating a colony in Africa to resettle freed slaves.
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The result is that the US is on pace to resettle fewer than 100 Syrian refugees in the fiscal year that ends September 22013.
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The order requires resettlement agencies to obtain written consent from relevant state and local officials anywhere they hope to resettle refugees beyond June 2020.
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It is hard to resettle refugees directly from Libya partly because most countries closed their embassies in Tripoli after fighting escalated there in 2014.
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Around the world, as a response to the colossal refugee crisis, more countries were exploring Canada's unique system of letting everyday citizens resettle refugees.
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The policy would allow 7,500 refugees from other countries to resettle in the United States, a senior Trump administration official told reporters on Thursday.
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Although far more costly than President Johnson's own plan to help resettle cold war veterans, the bill is considered certain to win the president's signature.
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Mr Sobyanin's demolition of small street kiosks, and hasty plans to raze ageing housing stock and resettle residents, betrayed a troubling disregard for private property.
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The Unification Ministry said the ban was "inevitable" to ensure smooth talks, and it would make efforts to create conditions for defectors to resettle better.
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Turkey plans to create a 400km (about 250 mile) buffer on the Syrian side of the border, and to resettle 2 million Syrian refugees there.
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Worldwide, destination country quotas mean the UN agency only expects to resettle up to 170,000 refugees in 2017, out of the 1.19 million considered eligible.
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An economic downturn in Turkey is increasing domestic pressure on Erdogan to resettle 2000 million of the 3.6 million people the country has taken in.
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Bassil has vocally opposed what he says is an international plan to resettle Syrian refugees permanently in Lebanon - something which the United Nations has denied.
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Initially, the country said it was prepared to resettle those who qualified for asylum, but it has since walked back some of the initial offer.
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Turkey's stated aim is to carve out a "safe zone" inside Syria to resettle many of the 3.6 million Syrian war refugees it is hosting.
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Last month, state-owned KEK said it was running out of coal after villagers close to the lignite reserves asked for more money to resettle.
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"We have to capture all the chinchillas and resettle them," Gold Fields Chief Executive Nick Holland told Reuters on the sidelines of a mining conference.
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In 2016, the Obama administration accepted 110,000 resettled refugees, but only 18,000 will be allowed to resettle in the next 12 months, the Independent reports.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A plan to resettle almost a million Muscovites in newly-built homes has sparked some of the Russian capital's largest protests in years.
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Australia steadfastly refuses to allow them entry under its strict "sovereign borders" policy and the asylum seekers have refused to resettle in Papua New Guinea.
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However, taking 50 families may not be necessary as there have been multiple offers from allies to resettle the volunteer rescuers, according to the official.
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The project to resettle nomads starting in the 1990s has brought far-reaching changes to the way of life and livelihoods of China's Yugur people.
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Oman was the first gulf country to provide such help, agreeing to resettle 10 low-level detainees in two batches in early and mid-2015.
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Ardern has said a 2013 offer by former Prime Minister John Key to resettle 150 refugees held in Australian detention centers remains on the table.
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Last month's controversial European Union deal to deport and resettle in Turkey migrants who arrive to Europe's borders has yet to get off the ground.
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One wall at the school displayed students' work with the Asylum Seeker Resource Center, a nonprofit organization that assists refugees hoping to resettle in Australia.
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By law, Australia will not resettle any migrants who approach the country by boat, a policy intended to discourage dangerous ocean crossings and human smuggling.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the number of refugees that organizations working with the government are pressing to resettle in the United States.
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There, his family obtained visas to Japan, thanks to a diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, who helped resettle thousands of refugees despite Tokyo's policies at the time.
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Kurdish leaders have previously accused Turkey of seeking to resettle mainly Arab Syrians from other parts of the country in their region - which Ankara denies.
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The Turkish president wants the SDF gone from northern Syria so that he can resettle 85033 million Syrian refugees — who are currently in Turkey — there.
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Turkey in late October threatened to "open the gates" to allow refugees into Europe unless Europeans back its plan to resettle them in northeast Syria.
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"The current burden on the US immigration system must be alleviated before it is again possible to resettle large numbers of refugees," the agency said.
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The workers — 12 female servers and their male supervisor — were only recently allowed to resettle in the South after undergoing months of questioning, according to Yonhap.
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A 2015 blueprint by Kashmir's local government to resettle Pandits proposed guarded colonies with schools, malls, hospitals and playgrounds, people with knowledge of the plan said.
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And Richard Stearns, president of World Vision US, a Christian nonprofit that helps resettle refugees, said those fleeing are often the people harmed most by terrorists.
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Turkey does not only want to ensure that the Kurdish forces withdraw from these areas, they also want to resettle around 2 million Syrian refugees there.
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Turkey wants to ensure that the US-allied Kurdish-led forces withdraw from these areas, and aims to resettle more than 2 million Syrian refugees there.
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Communities, states, Congress, and federal agencies will have to decide how — or whether — to resettle certain floodplains, raise roads, and fortify water supplies and petrochemical facilities.
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To address the crisis, governments in the region, including the United States, Mexico and Canada, must allow more people to resettle from Central America, MSF said.
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Mining has also overtaken agriculture as the leading provider of employment, after the Mugabe government started seizing white-owned farms to resettle landless blacks in 2000.
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In this zone, Erdogan also wants to resettle many of the approximately 3.6 million Syrian refugees who've fled to Turkey in the years-long civil war.
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Republican leaders have been calling on President Barack Obama, a Democrat, to move with caution in allowing refugees from Syria to resettle in the United States.
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Once in Australia, the Sharrouf children would be placed in the custody of their grandmother while the Rizvic children would resettle in Melbourne, the newspaper said.
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Mugabe, whose near four-decade rule ended after a coup last November, has maintained he was punished for seizing white-owned commercial farms to resettle blacks.
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Canada's new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, speedily made good (at great expense) on an election promise to resettle 25,000 Syrians, and then promised to take more.
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"This (verdict) seems to generate incentives for Hindus to take down mosques and resettle," said Neelanjan Sircar, an assistant professor at Ashoka University near New Delhi.
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What's worse is that the U.S. is on track to resettle just half of that number, the lowest amount in the history of the resettlement program.
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According to plans Erdogan presented at the United Nations General Assembly in September, Turkey would resettle some 405,000 people between Tel Abyad and Ras al Ain.
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The United Nations can assist by redoubling efforts to resettle those stranded on the two islands and by putting pressure on Australia to change its policy.
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Seoul (CNN)The personal information of almost 1,000 North Korean defectors has been stolen after hackers targeted an agency which helped them resettle in South Korea.
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In 2014, the administration gave up waiting for security conditions to improve in Yemen and began diplomatic efforts to find other nations willing to resettle them.
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The aid agencies said deteriorating conditions in these countries and limited options for Syrians to resettle elsewhere could drive many to return home despite the dangers.
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And in 2009, two members of al-Qaeda in Iraq, including a suspected terrorist bomb-maker, successfully infiltrated the Iraqi refugee program to resettle in Kentucky.
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The European Union also will resettle one Syrian from a camp in Turkey in exchange for each Syrian who used an irregular route to reach Greece.
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And so, even as Bostonians were still cheering the news that the corporate giant would resettle on their waterfront, Mr. Kleban decided he had to act.
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In exchange, European countries would offer to directly resettle a large number of refugees living in camps in Turkey who have fled the violence in Syria.
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Nonetheless, some migrants said that they would resist efforts to resettle them in France, clinging to the hope of eventually smuggling themselves across the English Channel.
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"I don't see how anyone in good conscience can do this" says Paedia Mixon, CEO of New American Pathways, an Atlanta agency that helps resettle refugees.
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Mr Erdogan has reportedly drawn up plans to resettle 700,000 refugees in a "safe zone" he plans to set up in Syria's predominantly Kurdish north-east.
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In order for these Paleolithic humans to resettle and spend some time in the harsh Bale Mountains, there had to be the associated pushes and pulls.
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He said he had decided to resettle in Barcelona for "personal reasons" and planned to remain in the city whatever the outcome of the municipal election.
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It included a surprising four chapters about the colonization movement, which aimed to resettle free black people and emancipated slaves on the west coast of Africa.
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Why is it unthinkable to send Central Americans to France but perfectly logical for Eastern Europeans, Middle Easterners, Asians and Africans to resettle in the USA?
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Erdogan wants to use some territory seized from the Kurds in October to resettle refugees from Turkey but the plan has met with little international support.
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The Australian government has repeatedly said that no refugees would be allowed to resettle in Australia, drawing condemnation from the United Nations and human rights groups.
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Drastically reducing the number of refugees allowed to resettle in America will leave thousands of vulnerable people trapped in horrendous situations like what my family endured.
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He'd also like to resettle at least one million Syrian refugees now living in Turkey within the safe zone on the Syrian side of the border.
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With Erdogan endorsing a plan to resettle the border area with millions of Syrian refugees currently sheltering in Turkey, the Kurds fear a widespread demographic displacement.
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However shocking, these figures hide an even more disturbing trend: the backpedaling of many wealthy countries away from their legal and ethical commitments to resettle refugees.
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Mr. Malloy personally welcomed to Connecticut a couple and their 5-year-old son, who had fled Syria in 2011 and planned to resettle in Indiana.
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While the future of those agencies is still unclear, states, along with some cities, are reaffirming their commitment to resettle refugees months before they're required to.
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Under an executive order signed by President Trump, groups that resettle refugees must submit their plans -- including agreements with states and local governments -- by Jan. 21.
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Erdogan's "Operation Peace Spring" is an effort to drive away Kurdish forces from the border and use the area to resettle around two million Syrian refugees.
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President Obama's move to thaw relations between Washington and Havana could mean the end of the federal program that helped resettle them in the United States.
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Before Friday, their work had begun to trickle off, as they could resettle only refugees who were already in transit when the president's order was signed.
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Fuming about an agreement the Obama administration and Mr. Turnbull had reached to resettle refugees stranded in offshore prisons run by Australia, Mr. Trump went ballistic.
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This just in: Agreement reached Myanmar and Bangladesh agree to resettle as many as 6,000 Rohingyas trapped in a "no man's land" between the two nations.
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"The current burdens on the U.S. immigration system must be alleviated before it is again possible to resettle large number of refugees," the press release said.
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Mohammed has been helping the family resettle into a new home, translates for them, and makes them feel welcome in a country that has rejected him.
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This year, the United States is on track to resettle fewer refugees than Canada, which has a population roughly one-tenth that of the United States.
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These are the millions of undocumented immigrants working and contributing in cities and towns across the country; the thousands of refugee families that evangelical churches helped resettle.
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"The United States continues to resettle vulnerable people who are fleeing persecution and conflict while upholding the safety and security of the American people," the spokesperson said.
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Mark Hetfield, the president and CEO of HIAS, said the organization had been unaware of Bowers' comments about them and their work helping resettle refugees in Pittsburgh.
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A pause on admissions that was expected to lift on Tuesday will now extend into November, leaving those who expected to resettle in the US in limbo.
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With all due respect, Mr. President, what makes you think you have the right to drive millions of Kurds out of their homes and resettle them elsewhere?
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The U.S. has agreed to resettle refugees held by Australia in two offshore detention centers, although the number of people to be offered resettlement was not revealed.
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Last year, it helped resettle 11,000 refugees — about 10 percent of the total number accepted by the United States — from Congo, Myanmar, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
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In return, Australia would resettle refugees from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, according to Reuters news agency, as part of a US-led program in Central America.
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There are even calls to abandon Flint and resettle its citizens, at least temporarily, while its water infrastructure is replaced — or instead of paying to replace it.
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U.S. officials told CNN the State Department has either concluded or is in the final stages of agreements with several countries to resettle all of the 34.
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The European Union will resettle a limited number of Syrian refugees from Turkey while pledging $6.8 billion to Turkey to improve conditions for the migrants living there.
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In 2012, the family received word that its refugee application to the United States had been approved, and they were offered a chance to resettle in Arizona.
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The refugee agency would resettle half of Israel's asylum-seekers in Western countries like Canada and Germany, and the other half would be given residency in Israel.
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Guterres nudged Myanmar to do more to help resettle hundreds of thousands of members of its Muslim Rohingya minority who have fled violence in the country's northwest.
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HIAS is one of the nine national agencies that partner with the United States government to resettle refugees as part of the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP).
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"A lot of times, with cases, there may be a health issues, or some reason you can't resettle a person in one community versus another," says Mitchell.
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But the government has consistently mishandled those relations, rejecting offers of assistance from Malaysia and New Zealand, while its attempts to resettle refugees in Cambodia have failed.
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RefugePoint measures its progress on this front by the proportion of host countries in Africa that resettle at least 1 percent of their refugee cases each year.
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Western European countries, along with Russia, resisted what many had hoped would be a pledge to resettle one-tenth of all the people fleeing war and persecution.
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A. No. Under the agreement, for every Syrian who is sent back to Turkey from Greece, the European Union promises to resettle one Syrian refugee from Turkey.
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They waited a day for the rocks to resettle and the cave to reform, then managed to squeeze their way through the newly formed path and entrance.
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Her newfound fame allowed the family to resettle in Turkey with support from the Turkish government, take part in refugee advocacy efforts and eventually write the book.
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And in practice, of the 211 countries only Iran, Iraq, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Syria produce refugees who resettle in the United States in meaningful numbers.
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They were working against the clock: If they didn't find a country to resettle them, their father could find them and take them back to Saudi Arabia.
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One of his first acts after assuming office in January 2017 was to issue an order cutting in half a plan to resettle 110,000 refugees that year.
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The Obama administration ultimately reduced the list to five, but the Trump administration has given no indication that it will try to repatriate or resettle the men.
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President Emmanuel Macron of France said last month that eight nations had agreed, in principle, to a plan to resettle refugees and migrants rescued in the Mediterranean.
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President Emmanuel Macron of France said last month that eight nations had agreed, in principle, to a plan to resettle refugees and migrants rescued in the Mediterranean.
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The government told the agencies that offices expected to handle fewer than 100 refugees in fiscal year 2018 would no longer be authorized to resettle new arrivals.
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At the meeting, diplomats and world leaders ratified new principles, but notably don't set any standards for how many refugees rich countries should be obligated to resettle.
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One day we received a call from someone from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees asking if we wanted to apply to resettle in another country.
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We resettle refugees to the United States and receive them in communities, get them set up in new homes, get the kids to school, get them jobs, etc.
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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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The United States has promised to resettle up to 1,250 refugees that Australia has banished to Nauru and the poor South Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea.
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Now, officials have a two-pronged approach to the situation: resettle those who got out, and try to convince those who haven't to leave as soon as possible.
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Australia agreed with former U.S. President Barack Obama late last year for the United States to resettle up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in the Australian-funded camps.
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Under the deal agreed today, the EU will resettle Syrian refugees from Turkey in return for Ankara taking back all migrants who cross to Greece after March 20th.
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Trudeau's budget will kick in $25 million to speed up family reunification programs, which allow citizens and residents to sponsor family members who want to resettle from abroad.
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The Obama administration is on track to resettle 28503,22019 Syrian refugees into the United States before October, the head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Wednesday.
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South of the border, the governors of 153 American states said they would not resettle Syrians after President Barack Obama announced plans to admit up to 215,215 refugees.
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Cutting funding to help vulnerable countries deal with climate change also will affect small island states that may need to resettle whole communities impacted by rising sea levels.
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They are some of the newest residents of Canada, as the country introduced a plan to resettle tens of thousands of Syrians forced from their homes by war.
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I was born soon after, and spent the first four years of my life in a Kenyan refugee camp before American Catholic missionaries helped us resettle in Tennessee.
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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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European efforts to provide humanitarian aid, resettle refugees and clear explosives have largely been put on hold until the United States can assure that the area is safe.
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Weren't there private efforts in the United States over the years to resettle some refugee groups — Southeast Asians fleeing after the Vietnam War, Soviet Jews in the 1980s?
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During a hearing on President Obama's plan to resettle 220006,2202 Syrian refugees here, officials from his agencies explained that vetting these people for security risks is largely impossible.
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An effort to secure specific commitments to resettle 10 percent of refugees in the lead-up to the summit meeting foundered because Russia and Western European nations balked.
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So when they won a U.S. government lottery last September for a so-called "diversity visa" allowing them to resettle in the United States, the couple was thrilled.
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Counting pledges to resettle 179,000 refugees the United Nations refugee agency has received since 2013, that meant it was looking for commitments to take an additional 300,0003 people.
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It's not too late for the US to heed the International Rescue Committee's call for us to resettle 65,000 refugees, not the paltry 1,434 we've resettled so far.
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His mother was born and raised in Istanbul, her roots in the culture of Greek refugees forced to leave rural Turkey and resettle in the early 2100th century.
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And even after its earlier occupation of the predominantly Arab region of Jarabulus in northwestern Syria, Ankara has been unable to resettle as many refugees as it hoped.
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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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He has vowed to block a European Union program that would resettle migrants from the Middle East and Africa who have gone to countries like Greece and Italy.
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A group of 27 Democratic senators on Wednesday called on President Obama to fulfill his commitment to resettle at least 2023,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. by October.
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Ms. Mastropietro, slight with auburn hair, has worked to resettle refugees in Lancaster since 133; both the joy and stress of the job are conveyed in her face.
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In December 2015, just four moths after her surgery, she took a six-week assignment in Amman, Jordan, in support of Canada's operation to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees.
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While 164 countries signed a United Nations agreement in 2018 to work together to resettle those migrants, the pact is not legally enforceable and depends on voluntary participation.
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The reduction in refugee admissions and the new restrictions on where they may resettle represent another blow to the US's ability to aid the world's most vulnerable populations.
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"There are a lot of economic opportunities (in Nuevo Leon)," said Gabriela Zamora, an attorney at Casa Monarca, an NGO in Monterrey working with UNHCR to resettle refugees.
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On Tuesday, meanwhile, President Barack Obama himself is chairing a "leaders' meeting" on refugees: a not-so-subtle attempt to shame countries into committing to resettle more people.
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Under the deal, the United States agreed to resettle up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in offshore processing camps on South Pacific islands in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
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The French government has now undertaken to resettle them to small reception centers throughout the country and wants to have the Jungle closed by the end of the month.
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A telephone call between Mr Trump and Malcolm Turnbull, the prime minister of Australia, is reported to have turned remarkably sour over a previous American pledge to resettle refugees.
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"We urge your Administration to devote the necessary resources to expeditiously and safely resettle refugees from Syria," the 13 senators wrote in the letter, which was seen by Reuters.
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"We are fixing roads, water systems and other infrastructure to make sure people can resettle," the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said in the report.
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In still other countries, like Ghana, the former detainees appear to be doing better, but the government there was heavily criticized by political opponents for agreeing to resettle them.
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"Whenever an eviction is required, we take all the necessary steps and resettle whoever is eligible with all amenities," said Jai Prakash Agrawal, speaking of evictions in the city.
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He said, however, this figure for possible returnees might not be achieved without additional targeted aid to help those seeking to resettle meet basic requirements, such as school fees.
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From entrepreneurs, bankers and fashion designers to artists, waiters and students, all are free to resettle in Britain and make their futures here without so much as a visa.
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NUMBER OF THE DAY 45,000 The maximum number of refugees who'd be allowed to resettle in the United States in the coming year under a new Trump administration plan.
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His mother, the former Anne Spott, was a secretary and helped resettle refugees after World War II, during which scores of the couple's relatives were killed in the Holocaust.
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Turkey considers all the Kurdish militias to be terrorist groups, and it has sought to create a zone south of its border with Syria to resettle millions of refugees.
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Very carefully Systemic delays also have meant some applicants' medical and background checks have expired as they've waited for final approval to resettle in the United States, Williams said.
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The special immigrant visa program allows Iraqis and Afghans who helped the United States as interpreters and other roles during the wars in those countries to resettle in America.
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Last fall, Barcelona named itself the "Refugee City," proudly unveiling a plan to help Spain fulfill its commitment to the European Union to resettle 9,323 refugees within two years.
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Under the deal, Australia would resettle refugees from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in exchange for the U.S. resettling as many as 1,250 currently being detained by Australian authorities.
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The story noted that Estonia decided to resettle Mr. Qader as a geopolitical favor to the United States after Russia intervened in Ukraine, another post-Soviet republic, in 2014.
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These teams that have helped resettle more than 25,000 refugees over the past 40 years now find themselves with no one to serve because the doors have been closed.
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The Trump administration has recommended to Congress that the United States allow just 45,000 refugees resettle in the country in fiscal year 2018, senior administration officials said on Tuesday.
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"Helping refugees resettle with jobs and by teaching them the local language is critical, but it's also important for them to feel comfortable in their new surroundings," he said.
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The injunction followed a legal challenge to the executive order in November by three nonprofit organizations that are among faith-based agencies contracted by the government to resettle refugees.
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Leaders of the resettlement agencies said Wednesday that they were thrilled with the judge's decision and that it would allow them to continue to resettle refugees across the country.
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The stated objective of Turkey's incursion into northern Syria is to carve out a "safe zone" to resettle many of the 3.6 million Syrian war refugees it is hosting.
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Yet Germany has taken in well over a million asylum seekers in the past two years and has pledged to resettle more refugees than all other European countries combined.
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Indeed, Neagu's experiences in Edinburgh with Demarco ultimately led him to resettle in London, where his interest in sculptural tactility inspired artists such as Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley.
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"The current burdens on the U.S. immigration system must be alleviated before it is again possible to resettle large number of refugees," the State Department said in a statement.
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Just days after the presidential election, the Obama administration announced a deal between the United States and Australia to resettle hundreds of refugees languishing on Manus and Nauru islands.
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Of all the refugees that my organization, the International Rescue Committee, would be helping to resettle this year, this group, the Special Immigrant Visa population, makes up a fourth.
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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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Setting the cap at 25,000 would restrict the number of refugees permitted to resettle in the United States next year to fewer than the number admitted after the Sept.
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But as the number of people seeking refuge elsewhere has grown, the willingness of other countries to resettle refugees and help them begin new lives has, if anything, shrunk.
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The federal government is in charge of deciding which refugees get to resettle in the United States each year, and putting them through the exhaustive, two-year vetting process.
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He's proposing a "community visa" that would allow communities to sponsor migrants, a version of the Canadian refugee system, which allows private citizens or organizations to sponsor and resettle refugees.
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"These people attempted to subvert Australia's laws by paying people smugglers to bring them illegally to Australia by boat — none will ever resettle here," immigration minister Peter Dutton said Tuesday.
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Qatar supports Turkey's efforts to resettle Syrian refugees in northeastern Syria, and its ties to Ankara could be a lifeline for the rest of the NATO alliance as relations fray.
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Parents, lawfully present in the United States, filled out an "affidavit of relationship," Form DS-7003, through one of the agencies that resettle refugees with funding from the State Department.
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Felda, or the Federal Land Development Authority, was created by Malaysia's second prime minister in 1956, and aimed to resettle and employ the rural poor in the palm oil industry.
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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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Two years ago, the government shelved a plan to resettle tens of thousands of Bedouin citizens elsewhere in the Negev that had drawn international condemnation and spurred demonstrations across Israel.
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Llosa said the UK should resettle 10,000 refugees a year from war-torn regions, instead of the current pledge to receive 20,8703 Syrians and 3,000 vulnerable child migrants by 2020.
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The Ministry of Finance said in January it would also collect 46 billion yuan from surcharges on coal-fired power over the coming three years in order to resettle workers.
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The special immigrant visa program allows Iraqis and Afghans who helped the United States as interpreters and in other roles during the wars in their countries to resettle in America.
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Americans want a federal government that is more concerned with keeping potential terrorists out of the country than figuring out how to resettle refugees from terrorist states in their neighborhoods.
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He said the world needed to do more to resettle refugees and offer greater help to Syria's neighbors which are hosting more than 4 million people who have fled Syria.
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Australia does resettle thousands of refugees each year, but has taken a tough line on spontaneous arrivals since a surge in boat people from South-East Asia three years ago.
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Within a week the ministry would fly him to one of six cities where it works with churches and employers to resettle new arrivals, from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Louisville, Kentucky.
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The Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans, which was founded five years ago, works to resettle refugee families in the area, according to Ramla Sahid, the group's executive director.
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In the aftermath of World War II and beyond, the faith community in the United States has helped resettle and integrate millions of refugees, embodying the biblical call to welcome.
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Nearly 6900 percent of refugees are not fluent in English when they enter the country, making the education of their children even more expensive for the communities where they resettle.
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It turns out that Naz received a two-week suspension for throwing another student down a flight of stairs, breaking his arm, and was unable to resettle after coming back.
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Third, while poor nations continue to bear the overwhelming brunt of the world's refugee caseload, wealthy nations are simultaneously stepping back from their commitments to resettle the most vulnerable refugees.
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The special immigrant visa program allows Iraqis and Afghans who helped the United States as interpreters and in other roles during the wars in those countries to resettle in America.
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A more diverse refugee population, if one could be created, would be easier to resettle, easier to integrate, and would provide Syrian refugee resettlement a valuable political shield from critics.
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For each Syrian sent back, the EU will resettle another Syrian from within Turkey up to a quota of 72,000, with those who have not attempted to cross illegally prioritized.
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When the French government closed the camp in October 2016, evacuating thousands and offering to resettle them around the country, many made their way to Brussels, another international transit hub.
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The leader of the opposition, Bill Shorten, should challenge Mr. Turnbull to resettle all the refugees who have been stranded on Manus Island and Nauru for the past several years.
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The county came up with one device after another to exclude African-Americans whose homes had been destroyed in Hurricane Katrina and who might try to resettle in the county.
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Many had received refugee visas to resettle in the United States with the assistance of the International Organization for Migration, but they were blocked by the travel ban this week.
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Suddenly and without warning, tens of thousands of refugees who had cleared every last hurdle in the vetting process to resettle in the United States felt the door slam shut.
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It says it cannot take more and was hoping to create a "safe zone" along the border to resettle them but the renewed spike in violence has endangered that plan.
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Last year, more than thirty governors released statements opposing President Barack Obama's plan to resettle Syrian refugees in their states, even though federal authority clearly allowed him to do so.
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Commissioner Kathleen Jones, who voted in favor of allowing the refugees to resettle, said she was undecided going into Monday night's vote and weighed residents' desires in making her decision.
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"The current burdens on the U.S. immigration system must be alleviated before it is again possible to resettle large number of refugees," the State Department said in a news release.
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"The current burdens on the U.S. immigration system must be alleviated before it is again possible to resettle large number of refugees," the State Department said in a written statement.
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But working to curb the flow of refugees and to resettle them where and whenever possible, is not just a security issue, it's also a human rights one as well.
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That $4.1 billion doesn't include resettlement services funded by the private sector; NGOs like the International Rescue Committee, which helps resettle refugees in the U.S., are heavily funded by private donations.
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In 2012, they asked the UN for asylum, hoping an agency would help resettle them in a far-off land away from the dangers and uncertainties of life in refugee camps.
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In that case, your relatives may face difficulties at immigration upon entering the US. What if I have family or friends who were waiting to resettle to the US as refugees?
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The development underscores tension between Myanmar and the United Nations, which in April criticized the government's previous plan to resettle Rohingya Muslims displaced by last year's violence in "camp-like" villages.
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He said that the International Rescue Committee is supposed to resettle about 3,500 of them, most of whom are translators or have similar supporting jobs, in the United States this year.
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Washington agreed a deal late last year to resettle refugees, mainly from Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq, held in Australia's processing centers on remote Pacific islands in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the incursion into Syria is aimed at clearing a "safe zone" along the border to resettle some two million Syrian refugees currently hosted in Turkey.
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Mr. Netanyahu first trumpeted the deal on Monday in a live television broadcast, saying it was an extraordinary plan to resettle nearly half of Israel's African asylum seekers in Western countries.
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Officials at the Pentagon, Reuters reported, scuttled a potential plan to resettle Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni detainee who has been imprisoned since 2002 and was cleared for release in 2009.
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Australia had struck a deal with the previous American administration under which America would resettle a small number of asylum-seekers currently in dismal camps in Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
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The French government has undertaken to resettle the migrants from the Jungle to small reception centers throughout the country and wants to close the camp by the end of the month.
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Texas has lost a series of court decisions since filing a federal lawsuit in December in response to the International Rescue Committee's plan to resettle six refugees fleeing Syria's civil war.
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This is being supported by Britain's International Department of International Development (DFID) with more funds for food available from the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) to people who voluntarily resettle.
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That $22013 billion doesn't include resettlement services funded by the private sector; NGOs like the International Rescue Committee, which helps resettle refugees in the U.S., are heavily funded by private donations.
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The E.U. has not even met its pledge to resettle 160,000 qualified asylum seekers languishing in the overburdened countries of Italy, Greece and Hungary; only about 300 people have been moved.
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In exchange, the EU would resettle an equivalent number of refugees from Turkey, as well as give Turkey $6.8 billion in financial aid and potential visa-free travel for its citizens.
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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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Officials compare the painstaking negotiations to resettle detainees to a game of chess, with Secretary of State John Kerry, and his predecessor Hillary Clinton before him, intimately involved in the discussions.
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Asylum seekers who refuse offers to resettle or to return home will be offered a 20-year visa to stay on Nauru, but no financial support, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said.
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More recently, he visited the Greek island of Lesbos, the landing point for so many Syrians fleeing the devastation in their country, and brought back a dozen to resettle in Rome.
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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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Using Egyptian territory, in effect, to resettle Palestinian "refugees" would violate a deep-seated taboo, which is one reason Sisi's Islamist enemies often accuse him of scheming to do just that.
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In a social media post before the shooting, Bowers denounced the "third world caravan" as a group of "invaders" that was being aided by a Jewish nonprofit that helps resettle refugees.
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About 410 men, women and children, mostly in family groups, are held on Nauru and would be given the first option to resettle in the United States under the new agreement.
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During former President Barack Obama's administration, the United States agreed to resettle up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in offshore processing camps on Pacific islands in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
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Tripoli already runs migrant camps in Libya where the EU pays the U.N. migration and refugee agencies to help resettle people to Europe legally or deport them to other African countries.
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They escaped to Jordan with their daughter, and applied for asylum with the UN; they spent two years vetting the couple before assigning them to resettle in the US in 2012.
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Three years ago, she and her family were offered the opportunity to resettle in the United States, the dream of many of Uganda's roughly 220,22015 refugees - but they turned it down.
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He said his organization was "deeply concerned about the uncertainty" of those assigned to resettle in the US and willing to negotiate with the Trump administration, but had not been approached.
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But Moussa Faki Mahamat, the newly appointed head of the African Union, the continent's biggest representative body, said on Twitter that Rwanda had offered to resettle as many as 30,000 migrants.
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By law, Australia does not resettle any migrants who approach the country by boat, and since 2013 it has paid neighboring Papua New Guinea to shelter migrants trying to reach Australia.
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The administration took additional steps last year to make it harder to apply for asylum, signing a deal with Guatemala to resettle asylum seekers there, instead of in the United States.
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Mr. Kerry promised $155 million in additional humanitarian assistance, particularly to help in rebuilding cities destroyed in the fighting, like the Anbar provincial capital, Ramadi, and to help displaced families resettle.
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Just one day after he announced it on live TV, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel reneged on a deal with the U.N. to resettle African asylum seekers in Western countries.
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And the Trump administration announced a cease-fire deal last week that would allow Turkey to establish a so-called "safe zone" in Syria where it hopes to resettle Syrian refugees.
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What is true is that Mr Soros is a generous backer of refugee charities and has also supported the EU's plan to resettle Syrian refugees across the bloc, including in Hungary.
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YouCaring, a smaller GoFundMe competitor, is also hosting several campaigns, including one that has raised nearly $2000,22 for a Syrian woman who had been approved to resettle in Little Rock, Ark.
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Resettling unaccompanied children should be on top of the current commitment to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees, said the International Development Committee, which monitors the performance of Britain's development aid ministry (DFID).
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The letter comes in response to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in September that gave state and localities the decision to allow refugees to resettle in their communities.
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In the transcript published by the Post, Turnbull repeatedly explains the terms of the agreement made by President Barack Obama for the U.S. to resettle as many as 1003,250 asylum seekers.
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And a Pew Research Center poll in May 275 found that 242 percent of white evangelicals think America is not obligated to resettle refugees — 25 percent more than the national average.
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The leaders also agreed to see what can be done in Syria to resettle million of displaced refugees who have fled to Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and other countries, according to Pompeo.
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"After Tuesday's meeting, the Myanmar side (accepted) our position, and agreed to take steps to repatriate and resettle these people," Bangladesh's Relief and Refugee Repatriation Commissioner Mohammed Abul Kalam told CNN.
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The International Campaign for Tibet, an advocacy group critical of China, challenged the move, arguing that it would bolster China's efforts to resettle tens of thousands of Tibetan nomads into villages.
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The rejection by Prime Minister Manuel Valls of France on Saturday of Germany's proposal for a quota system to resettle refugees sends exactly the wrong message to other governments in the bloc.
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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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New hopes dashed Until recently, their suffering has seemed endless because a central plank of Australian government policy is a total ban on these refugees ever being able to resettle in Australia.
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Its goal is to resettle the entire community together, as a whole, by constructing a brand-new town and filling it with the displaced occupants and culture of Isle de Jean Charles.
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Black smoke rose from the fire as it burned on the second day of the French authorities' operation to clear the camp of an its thousands of inhabitants and resettle them elsewhere.
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A project backed by Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, to demolish thousands of ageing low-rise apartment blocks and resettle their residents, brought thousands to the streets in protest this summer.
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Small towns worldwide dream of growth or just revitalization, and they often invest the little money they have in their coffers to entice companies or families to resettle in their ghost town.
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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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U.S. officials compare the painstaking negotiations to resettle detainees to a game of chess, with Secretary of State John Kerry, and his predecessor Hillary Clinton before him, intimately involved in the discussions.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of Muscovites joined a protest rally in the center of the Russian capital on Sunday against government plans to resettle millions of citizens from shoddy Soviet-era apartment blocks.
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Instead, he claims that he's the true humanitarian, because he wants to help refugees stay close to their home countries rather than having to resettle in faraway places like the United States.
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The couple settled in New York after their plan to live in Romania hit the rocks in 2012, but hope to resettle to Bucharest at some point in the future, Coman said.
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Instead of a mad scramble to resettle asylum seekers showing up on Europe's coasts, an orderly process of refugee resettlement can continue at lower numbers while the Syrians start their lives again.
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They have received conditional approval to resettle in the United States, but their American applications are subject to background checks, with no date set for their completion, according to the family's lawyers.
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Under the terms of the new proposal, which formalizes some existing, temporary measures, the voluntary system would be supported by a cash incentive to resettle migrants from camps outside the European Union.
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Many were held in internment camps in places like the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Man, often together with pro-Nazi Germans who had also decided to resettle in Britain.
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And, if Trump has suddenly been moved to address the suffering, he might start recognizing the legitimacy of Syrians as refugees of war and welcoming them to resettle in the United States.
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Officials in Manila aim to resettle some 100,000 families living in shacks by canals and rivers regarded as "danger zones" within the city, with the participation of communities and the private sector.
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Turkey has also been able to expand a buffer zone along its border, which Erdogan has said will be used to resettle more than 1 million Syrian refugees displaced by the war.
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She had been born in Pakistan, so could register as a refugee with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which would try to resettle her abroad, a process that takes years.
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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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Working with the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Department of State brings a certain number of refugees each year — most of them families with young children — to resettle in the United States.
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In the South's proposed budget for next year, President Moon Jae-in's progressive government has slashed funds for helping defectors resettle, while sharply increasing expenditures for potential economic cooperation with North Korea.
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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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Furthermore, in 1949 the government's clandestine human intelligence and espionage activities were largely consolidated at the C.I.A., so it made sense then that authority to resettle former agents resided with the director.
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"It's important we support those who contributed the least to rising sea levels and extreme weather but who are experiencing it the most, to resettle their communities in safer places," she said.
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Washington (CNN)A North Dakota county has voted in favor of allowing individuals to resettle in Burleigh County under provisions set out by an executive order President Donald Trump signed in September.
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But the justices suspended a second part of the lower court's ruling, standing firm for now against allowing an estimated 24,000 refugees from across the world to resettle in the United States.
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He was finally granted U.N. refugee status in November 2015, then waited an additional 14 months before learning that the United States would take him in and resettle him in Washington State.
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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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A hundred synagogue members had contributed in some way to helping resettle the Syrians: renting an apartment steps from a playground, assembling a vacuum cleaner, lining up juice boxes in the refrigerator.
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Australian officials have quietly briefed families of victims of a 1999 massacre about Australia's decision to secretly allow two Rwandan men formerly accused in the rampage to resettle in Australia as refugees.
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As the exodus from Venezuela has intensified, Brazil has allowed Venezuelans to obtain work documents and has helped a few thousand resettle from border communities to larger cities with more job opportunities.
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"It was necessary to resettle for Plant 221, but the methods used in Jinyintan were utterly barbaric," said Yin Shusheng, who investigated the clearances as a police officer in Qinghai in 1963.
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Instead, the administration should focus on assessing asylum claims fairly, developing its welcome new program to resettle refugees from the region, and supporting efforts to end the terrifying circumstances these people have fled.
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O'Neill also said that the camp on Manus Island would have to close eventually and that the country did not have the resources to resettle detainees, but that the decision rested with Australia.
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The organization works to transmit knowledge of human rights in the European Union and, in doing so, helps resettle migrants by providing them with the information and access to resources they desperately need.
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Further violence could pave the way for ethnic cleansing, forcing hundreds of thousands of additional Kurdish civilians to flee their homes and letting Turkey resettle the safe zone mainly with Syrian Arab refugees.
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The parliament could also block any new EU funding to help Turkey handle the 3 million Syrian refugees on its territory, many of whom Ankara would like to resettle in the "safe zone".
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She felt a certain responsibility as the Bronx-born child of immigrants from Puebla, Mexico, whose apartment was sometimes packed with as many as 25 people whom her parents were helping to resettle.
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Poland has one of Europe's most right-wing ruling parties, which has clashed with the European Union over its refusal to honor an international agreement to resettle refugees and attacks on democratic institutions.
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Ambassador James Dobbins, the SRAP (Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan), would have been one of the key diplomats to engage in talks with foreign governments about efforts to resettle the Taliban Five.
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Finally, in November 2014, the Obama administration gave up on Yemen's stabilizing soon, and struck diplomatic deals with other countries to resettle Yemeni men in small batches, starting with two Eastern European countries.
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In a concerted push to resettle all but the most severely contaminated areas, the government has spent $31 billion on the cleanup effort, and a staggering $58 billion in compensation payments to evacuees.
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ORR's founding mission is humanitarian: It's in charge of helping to resettle refugees, and it has been tasked for more than a decade with caring for kids who arrive alone at the border.
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"We have exhausted our available sites, our resources and our personnel," Mayor John Tory said ahead of a council meeting, as he sought help from provincial and federal governments to resettle new arrivals.
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The goal is to break down language barriers, ultimately connecting refugees to doctors, aid workers, legal help, and other crucial services in Arabic, Farsi, and Pashto as they resettle in a new country.
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Hundreds have been crossing the border each day in the last two months, according to PRAIDA, a provincial government agency that works under Quebec's Immigration Ministry and focuses on helping new arrivals resettle.
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Late last year, Obama agreed to resettle up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in Australian-funded camps in the South Pacific, in exchange for Australia resettling refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
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Whatever it may have lost when George Washington prevailed upon Congress to resettle along the Potomac River 280 miles to the south, the city did not forfeit its culinary primacy, then or now.
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The Resettlement Conference will be held by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva at the end of March to gather pledges to resettle people displaced by the Syrian conflict.
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Throughout the peace process and after the end of hostilities, the Afghan government will ensure the security of the Taliban and their families and help resettle former combatants as part of an agreement.
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The former trader in her 20s said she was sexually assaulted several times by police officials and train inspectors between 2010 and 2014, when she fled North Korea to resettle in the South.
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One of the alleged shooter's obsessions on social media was HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a Jewish organization originally founded in the late 1800s to resettle Jews fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe.
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Their situation, which has long been criticized internationally, hit a new low recently — in part because of the U.S. President Trump reluctantly agreed to resettle up to 1,250 refugees from the offshore camps.
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"We are of the view that there appear to be no reasonable grounds on which she could base her claim to resettle in the Jammu and Kashmir State," an Intelligence Bureau official wrote.
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She was turned away, however, when she arrived at the gate for her flight in Dubai, wrote Kirk W. Johnson, the founder and executive director of the List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies.
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The conservative government this week introduced to Parliament legislation that would ban such refugees who resettle elsewhere from ever visiting Australia as a tourist, either to do business or as an Australian's spouse.
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He bemoaned the fact that so many Somali refugees had been allowed to resettle in Minnesota and boasted that he had closed the door to many foreigners seeking protection in the United States.
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That will eliminate many opportunities for people fleeing war and persecution throughout the world to resettle in the United States, which until Mr. Trump took office was the world's leading destination for refugees.
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Last year I met Malik, an Iraqi refugee stranded with his family in Beirut, Lebanon after the U.S. government failed to keep its promise to resettle him, his wife and their two sons.
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Eventually, he escaped to Egypt, where he was parked for more than a decade until getting a green light to resettle in the United States with his wife, Azhar Ahmed, and daughter, Lames.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An emergency plan to evacuate refugees from dangerous prisons in Libya has stalled because European countries are taking too long to resettle them, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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A poll by the Angus Reid Institute released on Friday showed 52 percent of Canadians support the plan to resettle 25,000 refugees before the end of February, while 44 percent opposed the program.
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Hundreds of Hmong landed in Montana, thanks in part to Jerry Daniels, a Central Intelligence Agency officer who worked in Laos and encouraged Hmong to resettle in Missoula, where he had attended school.
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Amber D. Murray, 34, an immigration attorney who works with No One Left Behind, which helps resettle Iraqi and Afghan refugees who worked for the military, was at Dulles around 6:30 p.m.
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"There is no discussion between IRCC and the Australian Government to resettle in Canada asylum seekers that are currently in Australia," said Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada spokesperson Félix Corriveau in an email.
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But Iraq has failed to rebuild and resettle some other communities freed from the Islamic State as tensions between the Sunni minority and the majority Shiites still undermine efforts to reunite the country.
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That spring, a bill to resettle 22017,0003 Jewish refugee children in the US quietly died — despite the fact that 2000,250 Americans had written letters to Congress offering to take in a refugee child.
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"We would resist that strongly," Scott Arbeiter, president of World Relief, the humanitarian arm of the National Association of Evangelicals and one of nine agencies that partner with the federal government to resettle refugees.
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"The honorable prime minister wants to resettle them in Thengar Char, though some people say that island will not be a suitable place for them," said another Hasina aide, who declined to be named.
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"I focus on unskilled workers... If you were working in a state-owned enterprise, you now have no other options," he said, adding he has helped over 100 workers resettle in the past year.
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It comes days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched the incursion into Syria to drive Kurdish forces away from the border and to use the area to resettle around 2 million Syrian refugees.
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With many detainees complaining of illness bought about by the unsanitary conditions in the camp, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) urged Australia to allow 150 of them to resettle in New Zealand.
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Dutton has said repeatedly that the Australian government is working to resettle the Nauru refugees to third countries and that it is providing support to the Nauru government to improve medical and education facilities.
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But Erdoğan wants to expand that buffer zone and use some of this territory resettle some 2 million of the 3.6 Syrian refugees who fled to Turkey since the start of the Syrian War.
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His next clash pits him against an EU Commission plan to resettle refugees across member states based on quotas, which Orban sees as an act of out-of-touch Brussels bureaucrats usurping national authority.
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Meanwhile, as China seeks to find productive uses for its surplus labor and accelerate its "March West" campaign, it discerns a compelling opportunity to resettle millions of Chinese in Russia's sparsely populated Far East.
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Than Tun, a Rakhine community leader, said those who return should be confined to a part of the Maungdaw area close to the border and not allowed to resettle some formerly Muslim-majority areas.
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More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015, sparking a crisis as nations struggled to cope with the influx, and created division in the EU over how to resettle people.
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"Any plan that is to resettle refugees to safety so that they can rebuild their lives after the suffering that they've gone through on Nauru and Manus must be welcomed," he told the ABC.
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Australia agreed with former U.S. President Barack Obama late last year for the United States to resettle up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in much criticised processing camps on Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
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Australia agreed with former U.S. President Barack Obama late last year for the United States to resettle up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in much criticized processing camps on Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
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He met U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday and had said he would ask him to call for a donors' meeting to help finance Ankara's plans to resettle Syrian refugees in the region.
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Colorado legislators added new money for a resettlement program, and South Dakota legislators repealed a state law that gave the Department of Social Services the ability to work with federal officials to resettle refugees.
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The president determines the number of refugees accepted each year in consultation with Congress, which appropriates the funds, and the government contracts with nine agencies, six of which are faith-based, to resettle them.
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Healthy infants who are older than six months and feeding well during the day do not need to wake frequently at night to feed or have their parents resettle them several times a night.
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Refugee advocates told Politico that such a change would mark a major blow to groups helping resettle refugees and throw off thousands of people who are in the middle of the refugee application process.
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Under the agreement with Turkey, any unauthorized migrant arriving in Greece will be automatically sent back to Turkey, and for each Syrian sent back, the European Union will resettle a Syrian refugee from Turkey.
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Turkey plans to resettle 1 million refugees there and may reopen the route for migrants into Europe if it does not receive adequate international support for the plan, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.
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Nevertheless, while at the NSC, Power helped expand by $50 million U.S. aid to Iraqi refugees, increased the number of Iraqis allowed to resettle in the United States, and doubled the government's refugee stipend.
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Sources close to Lindsay tell TMZ, she had surgery over the weekend -- you can see the (still gnarly) results in the photos we got -- and on Tuesday she was helping resettle displaced refugees again.
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Some of the migrants are expected to be transferred to France, after the government of President Emmanuel Macron announced that passengers from the Aquarius who wished to resettle in his country would be welcomed.
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Mr. Kim, whose Caleb Mission church in Cheonan, south of Seoul, has helped hundreds of North Koreans resettle in the South, said he knew the identities of only the three people he had helped.
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They have all been given the option of permanent residency in Papua New Guinea, or applying to resettle in Cambodia or Nauru, the location of a second offshore facility run by the Australian government.
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SPECIAL SECTION: MODERN LOVE An article on Page F10 of today's paper about an Iraqi man's efforts to resettle his family in the United States misstates when his wife was granted a reunification petition.
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Last year, Ghana signed an agreement with the United States to allow the two detainees, Khalid Mohammed Salih al-Dhuby and Mahmmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef, both citizens of Yemen, to resettle in Ghana.
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The decision will not affect refugees who have already been resettled in the US. So far, 2947 out of 303 states with both Democratic and Republican governors have agreed to resettle refugees in 230.
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Her parents, both Lebanese, moved frequently because of political upheaval, and when they'd resettle in a new house, her mother would hire local craftsmen to build the furniture that she designed for their home.
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Advocates of the nearly 40-year-old refugee program inside and outside the administration fear that approach would effectively starve the operation out of existence, making it impossible to resettle even those narrow populations.
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"Through making east of Euphrates a safe place, and depending on the depth of this safe zone, we can resettle 2-3 million displaced Syrians currently living in our country and Europe," he said.
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Turkey plans to resettle 1 million refugees in northern Syria and has warned that it may reopen the route for migrants into Europe if it does not receive adequate international support for the plan.
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This is why for many of these refugees, the announcement last year that the Obama administration had agreed with Australia to resettle some of them instilled some crucial hope where none had seemed to exist.
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At the same time, many Christian groups that resettle refugees in the United States decry the persecution of their brethren overseas, but said the country should not give favor to fellow Christians or bar Muslims.
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Zimbabwe since 2001 has relied on maize imports and food aid to feed itself, a situation critics blame on President Robert Mugabe's often violent seizures of white-owned commercial farms to resettle landless black citizens.
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For each Syrian sent back to Turkey, the EU will resettle another Syrian currently in Turkey up to a quota of 72,000, with priority given to those who have not attempted to enter Europe illegally.
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Inslee released a sweeping plan in June to reclaim U.S. leadership in the fight against climate change that included proposals to resettle hundreds of thousands of climate refugees, and raise barriers to fossil-fuel imports.
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The tone was different in Hungary, where the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban set in motion plans for a referendum challenging quotas set by the European Union to resettle 160,000 refugees across the Continent.
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Myanmar intends to resettle most refugees who return in new "model villages", rather than on the land they previously occupied, an approach the United Nations has criticized in the past as effectively creating permanent camps.
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"The UK government has made clear its commitment to resettle vulnerable children under the Immigration Act and ensure that those with links to the UK are brought here using the Dublin regulation," Rudd told parliament.
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He said authorities would help to resettle some of the two million people displaced by the jihadist group's seven-year insurgency aimed at creating an Islamic state in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation.
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Public confidence in the country's migration policy allowed Mr Trudeau to campaign on a pledge to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees, a rapidly executed policy that proved so popular that the quota was increased to 35,000.
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Turnbull refused to comment on the details of the conversation during a Wednesday press conference but indicated that the U.S. would uphold its end of a deal to resettle 1,250 refugees being held in Australia.
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Researchers have created an algorithm that they claim can find the best location to resettle a refugee in any given country, improving an individual's chances of getting a job by as much as 70 percent.
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They are also among the more than 30 Republican governors who have publicly resisted the federal government's plan to resettle refugees from war-ravaged Syria, fearing that the refugees might bring terrorism to their states.
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On Monday, the church, responding to what it called "the global refugee crisis," donated $2 million to two groups that help resettle refugees: the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the International Rescue Committee.
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In February, around the time that Ms. Algothany's family got word they could apply to resettle in the United States, the administration began a three-month push to interview and process Syrian refugees in Jordan.
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Even so, the European Union would still pledge to resettle one Syrian from a camp in Turkey in exchange for each Syrian who used an irregular route, like crossing the Aegean Sea, to reach Greece.
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Others talk peace but demand a Palestinian "right of return" to Israel, a requirement that would effectively eviscerate the Jewish state by allowing millions of Arabs of Palestinian descent to resettle permanently within Israel's borders.
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United States officials who were conducting interviews with refugees being held in Australia unexpectedly left the facility on Friday, adding to doubt that the U.S. will follow through on an agreement to resettle those detainees.
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This would see the EU "return all new irregular migrants crossing from Turkey into the Greek islands," and resettle one Syrian from Turkey in exchange for each Syrian that Turkey would take back from Greece.
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Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, and the right-wing government he leads, have been on the offensive since then over the European Union's migration policies, which require member states to resettle a quota of refugees.
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Turkey's defense minister cautioned after the attack that the country had no desire for war with Syria's main ally, Russia, in the country's bid to resettle more than 1 million Syrian refugees inside northeastern Syria.
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Kiribati, an island nation in the Central Pacific, has bought 6,000 acres of forested land in Fiji, more than a thousand miles away, hoping to resettle some of its 100,000 people if a crisis hits.
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The ambitious plan of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey to resettle at least one million Syrian refugees within a "safe zone" along the Turkish-Syrian border has come a step closer to being realized.
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Greg Abbott wrote a letter to the State Department Friday saying that while Texas has historically welcomed more refugees than any other state, it will not resettle any additional refugees in the 21 fiscal year.
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He didn't attend school and spent years ostracized and working in rice fields before leaving the country in 1990 on a program that gave Amerasians like him a chance to resettle in the United States.
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For example, one is a stateless ethnic Rohingya person, and efforts to find an appropriate country that was willing to resettle him — and where he was willing to entertain going — proved unsuccessful, the officials said.
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Mr. Turnbull again stated that Australia's relationship with the United States remained robust, but if the deal to resettle the refugees falls through, Canberra will be left with a seemingly intractable political problem at home.
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Liberia is a small coastal African nation that is especially significant to the United States because the American Colonization Society began an effort in 1822 to resettle free African Americans and former U.S. slaves there.
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The Trump administration slashed the number of refugees from any country it will allow to resettle in the United States in 2020 to 18,000, the lowest level in the history of the modern refugee program.
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If implemented, the plan will ensure Palestinian refugees have the choice to return to the state of Palestine, integrate in the countries where they currently reside, or resettle in a third country other than Israel.
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In the 10 years since, these programs have represented a lifeline for our loyal Iraqi allies and their families, many of whom have been able to resettle to our country, living and working alongside us.
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His government, which has called for a referendum against an EU scheme to resettle migrants coming to Europe among member states, is running a billboard campaign calling on Hungarians to "send a message" to Brussels.
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Federal courts shot down portions of that executive order, but their rulings did not affect the part of it focused on refugees, leaving the nine agencies designated by the State Department to resettle refugees scrambling.
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There's no evidence to suggest that the Australian government was following the United Arab Emirates' lead, but a subsequent arrangement to pay Cambodia to resettle its refugees shows that such practices are becoming more mainstream.
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The fact that the asylum seekers were fleeing gangs didn't seem like a point in their favor, particularly among Americans who believe America is weakened when people from "shithole countries" are allowed to resettle here.
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The President-elect's previously stated position on preventing refugees from entering the United States has also raised the ire of protesters, who believe the country is morally obligated to resettle families escaping foreign wars and persecution.
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Mr Turnbull raised a deal his government had struck with the administration of Barack Obama, in which America agreed to resettle refugees trying to reach Australia who had been diverted to Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
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By 2015, Mr. Orban had cajoled several Central and East European countries to block the European Union's efforts to resettle thousands of migrants fleeing violence elsewhere — and provided a template for a democratic backslide in Poland.
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Trump criticized Clinton's call to resettle more Syrian refugees in the U.S. and accused her of being complicit in Saudi Arabia's flagrantly poor human rights record because the Clinton Foundation has accepted funds from the kingdom.
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In the US, bigger companies like Airbnb have stepped up to the plate to allow hosts to join an Airbnb community who are providing free accommodation to those in need, enabling them to resettle their lives.
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Update: Pajhwok Afghan News reported that Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan, Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, announced late Thursday that the Afghan government will help "rescue" Gula from police custody and help her resettle back in her home country.
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Here is what gives me the most hope, despite how shaken up I feel: in Pittsburgh, according to the social media accounts of the suspect, Jews were targeted for raising funds to resettle immigrants and refugees.
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An executive order requires written consent from state and local governments to allow refugees to resettle there Story at a glance Recently, the United States drastically reduced the number of refugees being resettled in its borders.
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The United States currently spends about $1.8 billion annually — or $8.8 billion over five years — to resettle refugees and asylees inside the country, according to a new study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
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The United States has done even worse: The Obama administration declared eight months ago that it would resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees, a piddling number, but so far it has admitted barely a fourth of that total.
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In a bid to avoid conflict, Tata Power approached SPARC, which has worked with city officials to resettle people affected by infrastructure projects, including the widening of roads and the construction of flyovers and railway tracks.
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"Texas will still resettle refugees, but the coordinating role that the state has played will be facilitated instead by a designated nonprofit organization," said Linda Hartke, president and chief executive of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
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Republican lawmakers have called for blocking President Obama's plan to resettle up to 2202,2628 Syrian refugees, fearing the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) could use the program to slip fighters into the United States.
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The International Rescue Committee, one of nine agencies in the United States that work with the government to resettle refugees, said that since 2010, its office here had helped 102 Afghan refugees, which includes 30 families.
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Fuat Oktay said in a speech on Tuesday that Turkey is intent on combatting Syrian Kurdish fighters across its border in Syria and on creating a zone that would allow Turkey to resettle Syrian refugees there.
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The expected tally also would come to less than half the maximum number of refugees the Trump administration said it would allow to resettle in the United States this year, after slashing the cap to 45,000.
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Even so, Mr. Tusk's revised proposals maintained the pledge to resettle one Syrian from a camp in Turkey in exchange for each Syrian who used an irregular route, like crossing the Aegean Sea, to reach Greece.
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Later, as part of a program to test the effects of radiation on humans, American officials told the people from Bikini and Rongelap that their islands were safe to resettle, so they returned for several years.
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SYDNEY, June 24 (Reuters) - Australia has rescued the children and grandchildren of two dead Islamic State fighters from a Syrian refugee camp and will resettle them in the country, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday.
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The United States allowed 84,995 refugees to resettle in the 12 months before the end of September 2016, a number that refugee advocates believe will be drastically reduced if new travel restrictions are signed into law.
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Turkish forces have launched a military offensive in previously Kurdish-held areas of northeastern Syria, where the Turkish government is attempting to resettle more than 1 million Syrian refugees who fled the waning Syrian civil war.
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Republicans softened on "reducing the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the US" by large margins before and after their weekend of deliberation and discussion with policy experts, candidates, and people they had never met.
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But at least for now, the court's ruling means that Texas will continue to resettle refugees as normal in 2020, averting adverse impacts not only on refugees themselves, but also on refugee resettlement resources and infrastructure.
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CANBERRA, Australia — The United States and Australia were close to announcing a deal in which the United States would resettle hundreds of asylum seekers banished by Australia to Pacific island camps, a newspaper reported on Friday.
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Rwanda, from where more than 2 million people were displaced amid genocide in 1994, signed a deal with the United Nations in September meant to help resettle people detained in Libya while trying to reach Europe.
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"We will continue to resettle the most vulnerable refugees, including those who have fled religious persecution, while prioritizing the safety and security of the American people," a State Department spokesperson said in a statement to CNN.
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Texas is the only state that has taken advantage of a November executive order from President Trump mandating that resettlement agencies get written approval from state and local agencies any place they intend to resettle refugees.
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Although Brownridge passed around a spreadsheet for his employees to join, he felt like it didn't do enough to help resettle laid-off workers, in an idea that proved to be the genesis of Silver Linings.
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Italy hoped the G7 would issue a detailed stand-alone policy statement and emphasize the obligation of developed nations to resettle more migrants and refugees, who on average spend 10 years away from their home countries.
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The bloc's original goal was to resettle 160,000 migrants throughout the member nations to relieve pressure on Greece and Italy, the main arrival points for the throngs of migrants making the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean.
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One of his first acts after assuming office in January 2017 was to issue an order cutting in half a plan put in place by Democratic President Barack Obama, to resettle 110,000 refugees in fiscal 2017.
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At a time when there are more displaced persons stranded in crisis zones around the world than ever before, the White House last month added additional barriers on refugees seeking to resettle in the United States.
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The United States will apply "extreme vetting" to up to 1,250 asylum seekers it has agreed to resettle as part of an agreement with Australia, a spokesman for President Trump said in the United States on Tuesday.
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Subedi's family tried to return to Bhutan, but in 2006, when the Bush administration announced they would resettle tens of thousands of Bhutanese refugees, Subedi began the long process that would bring him to the United States.
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Salvadorans make up the largest group with TPS and have about 192,700 US-citizen children, many of whom are likely to be forced to leave with their parents to resettle in a country they've never lived in.
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St. Luke's is active in the city's social justice scene, having in the past provided sanctuary for a pregnant, undocumented immigrant who faced deportation and recently having helped various refugee communities resettle in the Long Beach area.
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Rudd said progress had been made at a meeting with French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve to help resettle unaccompanied children in the camp to Britain or to a safe children's center while any necessary paperwork is processed.
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Under the deal, agreed with former President Barack Obama late last year, the United States would resettle up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in offshore processing camps on South Pacific islands in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
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" 'Ethnic cleansing': Roebuck went on to describe the Turkish military efforts to drive Kurdish forces out of an area where the Turkish government plans to resettle up to 28503 million Syrian refugees nothing short of "ethnic cleansing.
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More than seven months since the president pledged to resettle the most vulnerable Syrians, the United States has let in less than a fifth of that number — 285,2000 through the end of April, according to government figures.
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YANGON (Reuters) - The United Nations' refugee agency has criticized a Myanmar government plan to resettle Rohingya Muslims displaced by recent violence in "camp-like" villages, saying it risks stoking tensions, according to a document seen by Reuters.
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Because the union lacks institutions muscular enough to either design or implement a Europe-wide policy, its officials have resorted to begging and cajoling member states to voluntarily resettle more refugees — and those states have largely refused.
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Compared with this year, spending will increase mostly to resettle refugees within Europe and to enhance border control, as the continent grapples with an influx of migrants and asylum seekers from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday Turkey should not try to coerce either Greece or Europe in its attempts to get support for a plan to resettle Syrian refugees in northern Syria.
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Dave Woodyard, the president and chief executive of Catholic Charities of Dallas, which helped resettle Artan and his family in the city, told VICE News the charity has been contacted by law enforcement for information about Artan.
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Of that $2300 million was earmarked to resettle the community of Isle de Jean Charles after Chantel Comardelle, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe's executive secretary, and colleagues worked with state officials and other groups to submit plans.
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The $2 million donation, part of a broader $150 million package of climate change assistance to Fiji, aims to support efforts already underway to resettle people at risk from sea level rise and other climate-related threats.
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The decision comes after Trump signed an executive order last year requiring refugees first entering the U.S. to resettle only in jurisdictions where state and local governments have agreed to receive them under a State Department program.
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At the same time, President Donald Trump issued an executive order saying his administration would seek the approval of state and local governments to resettle refugees in their communities, in a shift for a federally directed program.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said world powers had not yet offered any support for his planned "safe zone" in northern Syria, where he intends to resettle a million Syrian refugees, broadcaster NTV reported on Wednesday.
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Under a new program to reduce urban poverty, the UNDP aims to resettle people on unused or under-used government land, and broker medium-term tenure deals between private land owners and tenants, said the agency's Rahman.
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Under the deal, agreed with former President Barack Obama late last year, the United States would resettle up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in offshore processing camps on South Pacific islands in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Nauru.
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Rwanda, which at one time in 1994 had over 2 million of its citizens displaced after a genocide, signed a deal with UNHCR in September that is meant to help resettle people detained while trying to reach Europe.
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JERUSALEM — In a head-spinning turnaround, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel announced on Monday that he had reached an extraordinary deal with the United Nations refugee agency to resettle thousands of African asylum seekers in Western countries.
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"We haven't seen the policy, but it is a concern considering the already lengthy and opaque process that refugees have to go through," said Melanie Nezer of HIAS, a group that helps resettle refugees in the United States.
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Permitted to resettle in West Germany in 1985, he began attracting attention for his evocations of the East's apocalyptic postwar landscape and the dislocations of a Cold War-era émigré who felt like an outsider in both societies.
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That's partly why he was motivated to enter Syria now; Turkey's financial crisis has increased the backlash against the nearly 3.6 million Syrian refugees in the country, and Erdogan wants to deliver on his promise to resettle them.
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Out of the $1 billion dollars set aside by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to build climate-resilient infrastructure, $52 million is planned to help Isle de Jean Charles residents resettle, per The Huffington Post.
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Ahead of Australia's election, the opposition Labor party said it would agree to a deal with New Zealand to resettle 150 refugees held on the island of Nauru if it formed the next government, as polls had indicated.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia is in talks with Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, among six nations, to resettle asylum seekers detained in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific island nation of Nauru, the Sydney Morning Herald said on Saturday.
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Authorities in Moscow intend to resettle millions of citizens from decrepit Soviet-era apartment blocks into modern high-rise flats, but concerns about how people will be rehoused are upsetting voters ahead of a presidential election in 2018.
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Tom Wolf, both seeking reelection this fall (The Morning Call) … CONGRESS: The administration's new policy to more strictly limit the number of refugees who can resettle in the United States is not sitting well with some Republican lawmakers.
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Chiefs of the two tribes present on the island — the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw and the United Houma Nation — have debated who would be allowed to live there beyond the islanders themselves, and whether some islanders could resettle elsewhere.
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In return, the European Union will resume negotiations over Turkey's application to join the 2000-nation bloc, and will resettle one Syrian from a camp in Turkey in exchange for each Syrian who is sent back to Turkey.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of Muscovites protested in the south-west of the Russian capital on Sunday against government plans to resettle millions of citizens from shoddy Soviet-era apartment blocks, but numbers had fallen compared to earlier rallies.
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For example, last year the Obama administration pledged to resettle at least 10,000 refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria by this September, yet the United States has granted entry to only a fraction of that number so far.
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Prosecutors allege that the maternal grandparents helped their daughter resettle with her son permanently in Brazil in July 2013, even though doing so violated a legal agreement that she and Mr. Brann had signed in Texas that May.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey plans to resettle 1 million refugees in northern Syria and may reopen the route for migrants into Europe if it does not receive adequate international support for the plan, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday.
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World Relief, an evangelical organization that helps resettle refugees in the US, published a letter to President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in the Washington Post in February, signed by 100 evangelical leaders from all 50 states.
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Read: There are more refugees today than ever before The Trump administration has recommended to Congress that the United States allow just 2000,21980 refugees resettle in the country in fiscal year 673, senior administration officials said on Tuesday.
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In 2014, it reached an agreement to pay the country about $35 million to resettle asylum-seekers Australia was holding on the Pacific island of Nauru, after detaining them at sea as they tried to reach Australia's shores.
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The issue was posed to the county board last week by the Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota, which provides a broad range of support services to families, homeless individuals and youth as well as helping resettle refugees.
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Washington (CNN)Republican governors across the country are telling the Trump administration their states are willing to resettle refugees, responding to a White House order that immigrant advocates argued seemed designed to deter states from taking in refugees.
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As new arrivals to Geoje, they were given a small amount of supplies as part of a South Korean government program to resettle refugees on the island, but were largely dependent on the limited generosity of the locals.
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Serge Miville, who teaches Franco-Ontario history at Laurentian University in Sudbury, said that Roman Catholic groups provided money to resettle in the area to Francophone Quebecers, who had earlier gone to New England in search of work.
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The Syrian refugee crisis has tested the US's ability to accept and resettle refugees — not because it's impossible to screen refugees for security risks, but precisely because the US has been so careful and thorough in doing so.
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Myanmar officials have so far said they plan to resettle most returnees in new "model villages", rather than on the land they previously occupied, an approach the United Nations has criticized in the past as effectively creating permanent camps.
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The resettlement deal with United States came after Turnbull agreed in September to take part in a U.S.-led program to resettle refugees from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador as part of Australia's annual intake of 18,750 asylum seekers.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's ruling Fidesz party wants to amend the constitution in order to ensure that the European Union cannot force the country to resettle migrants, the national news agency MTI reported on Thursday, citing the party's parliamentary leader.
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Through social media and relatives that stayed behind in Kenya, CNN identified several Kenyans who weren't supposed to have refugee status that managed not only to register, but to resettle as refugees in Europe, Canada and the United States.
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" In the order, Trump said he determined that the federal government should only resettle refugees in jurisdictions "in which both the State and local governments have consented to receive refugees under the Department of State's Reception and Placement Program.
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The EU has provided Turkey with financial aid to facilitate refugee resettlement and prevent migrants from flooding the continent, but Erdoğan is facing pressure to resettle most of them in light of a recent economic downturn in the country.
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The Trump administration is projected to fall short of its record-low cap on refugee arrivals this year, according to State Department data and projections by World Relief, a humanitarian organization that works to resettle and care for refugees.
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As a presidential candidate, Trump proposed issuing a temporary ban on all Muslim immigration and frequently slammed efforts to resettle refugees from Muslim-majority countries, claiming that terrorists were entering the U.S. and Europe by hiding among refugee populations.
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SYDNEY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials interviewing refugees held in an Australian-run offshore detention center left the facility abruptly, three detainees told Reuters on Saturday, throwing further doubt over a plan to resettle many of the detainees in America.
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Canberra (Reuters) - Hundreds of asylum-seekers held in Australian-run detention centers in the Pacific are likely to remain there indefinitely as no other country is willing to resettle them, Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton said on Monday.
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"For humanitarian reasons, Jordan gave the United Nations permission to organize the passage of Syrians who entered the Occupied Golan after Britain, Germany and Canada presented a legally binding pledge to resettle them after three months," Safadi tweeted Sunday.
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Lu said that China would need to resettle about half a million workers that lose jobs in the coal and steel sectors this year and will speed up development of a "black list" system for firms with wage arrears.
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He has said in the past that asylum seekers granted refugee status could resettle in Papua New Guinea, though few have been allowed to do so, and that those denied asylum should be sent back to their home countries.
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AMMAN, Jordan — The Trump administration's travel ban and cuts to foreign aid are being keenly felt in Jordan by Syrian refugees, many of whom have been in limbo for years as they've sought to resettle in the United States.
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What the president wants is for the United States to support UNRWA's original and intended purpose to resettle refugees from the Arab-Israeli Conflict of 1948 under the internationally recognized definition of refugees that applies in every other instance.
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Advocates for sponsorship believe that private citizens can achieve more than the government alone, raising the number of refugees admitted, guiding newcomers more effectively and potentially helping solve the puzzle of how best to resettle Muslims in Western countries.
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That's despite Muslims numbering only an estimated 20,000 to 40,223 people out of Poland's population of 260 million, a share unlikely to grow given the government's adamant refusal to accept an EU plan to resettle refugees among member states.
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Australia also owed Papua New Guinea a political debt after it agreed to process and resettle asylum seekers in detention camps on Manus Island, Professor Howes said, making Australian officials wary of criticizing the country over issues like corruption.
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The international community, primarily led by the High Commissioner for Refugees, is prepared to resettle up to half of Israel's African refugees to Western and African countries where they will receive protected status, if Mr. Netanyahu agrees to cooperate.
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said the purpose of the assault is to create a safe zone to resettle Syrian refugees and to defeat the YPG militia, which Ankara says is a terrorist group backing Kurdish rebels in Turkey.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Saturday that Syrian armed forces should withdraw from an area of Syria near the border with Turkey so that Turkish armed forces can resettle as many as 2 million refugees in the region.
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The State Department cited that backlog when it announced the president's refugee limit for the coming year, saying it "would be irresponsible" for the U.S. to seek to resettle refugees overseas while migrants continued to arrive at the border.
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Taken together, the reduction in refugee admissions and the new restrictions on where they may resettle represent another blow to the US's ability to aid the world's most vulnerable populations, even as the number of refugees worldwide has soared.
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ANKARA, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said world powers have yet to pledge support for the country's "safe zone" plans in northern Syria, where it intends to resettle one million Syrian refugees, broadcaster NTV reported on Wednesday.
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Abebaw Getenet, a 30 year-old father of four displaced from Benishangul-Gumuz, said the government of Oromia had promised to resettle within the region all those Oromos displaced from Somali state last year and who were unwilling to return.
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Israel rules this out, fearing an influx of Arabs that would eliminate its Jewish majority, and argues the refugees should resettle in a future Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, territories it occupied in the 1967 war.
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Much of the "refugee corps" — the US Citizenship and Immigration Services officers who are responsible for interviewing refugees around the world who are applying to resettle in the US — has been detailed to do asylum interviews of detained border-crossers.
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White House deputy spokesman Eric Schultz told reporters the deal to resettle in the U.S refugees currently held at Australian-funded offshore processing centers was reached with President Barack Obama, and it was the prerogative of each president to set policies.
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Attempts in recent years to resettle some of the asylum seekers in Cambodia and Malaysia collapsed, leaving Turnbull to portray the deal with the United States as a solution for the asylum seekers that also sticks to those hard-line policies.
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It comes days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched the incursion into Syria to drive Kurdish forces -- a key US ally against ISIS -- away from the border and to use the area to resettle around 2 million Syrian refugees.
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World Relief is one of the nine officially sanctioned organizations that resettle refugees in the US. And it has been in the driver's seat of a push to rally evangelicals to challenge Trump's ban on moral, practical, and biblical grounds.
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With the children's father in the hospital with life-threatening injuries and the mother stricken with grief, the community will hold a vigil for the family Wednesday evening in Halifax, according to one of the groups that helped resettle the refugees.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency on Tuesday urged Australia to accept New Zealand's offer to resettle 150 refugees from an abandoned Australian-run detention center in Papua New Guinea, as about 450 men remain barricaded inside without food or water.
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In an announcement made today, Immigration Minister James Brokenshire said the government will begin working with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) to resettle unaccompanied children from conflict regions, though they haven't given specifics on how many will be brought to Britain.
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The village of Ye Bu - or "hot water" - dates from the early 1970s, when General Ne Win, the authoritarian ruler of the country then known as Burma, launched a plan to resettle people from the dry zone in the country's center.
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Several countries shot down an earlier draft of the declaration that called on nations to resettle 10 percent of the refugee population each year, something that has led several human rights groups to criticize the document as a missed opportunity.
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The U.S. agreed to resettle an unspecified number of refugees being held in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the tiny South Pacific island nation of Nauru on Australia's behalf, under a deal to be administered by the U.N. refugee agency.
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Under a deal with Turkey reached in March, asylum seekers using clandestine routes to reach Greece from Turkey are being sent back, while the European Union will directly resettle refugees, mostly Syrians, who have been processed and registered in Turkey.
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The U.S. should be able to resettle refugees who have been vetted first by the U.N. and then by the FBI, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Counterterrorism Center, the Department of Defense, and U.S. intelligence agencies.
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During the war years, he spent a surprising amount of intellectual energy opposing what now seems to us an obvious chimera—a plan to resettle ex-slaves outside the United States, in Central America or the West Indies or Africa.
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Short-term fixes, even expensive ones, could allow residents and governments to make choices about how to help or resettle people; a sudden annihilation of hope, on the other hand, could destroy a town's real estate values and tax base.
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On Monday, Turkey had promised to develop a security zone along the border to both push Kurdish fighters away from Turkey and build space inside Syria where Turkey hopes to resettle some of the millions of Syrian refugees they currently host.
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When he left, he was past 21983, his hair thinning, and about to start a new life in Estonia, a tiny Baltic country he had never heard of before it had decided to resettle a detainee a few months earlier.
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Chris Christie, who has declared that the state of New Jersey will not help resettle any Syrian refugees, I am proud to say that we have resettled two Syrian families, one that shared our home with my wife and me.
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The U.S. State Department has told refugee agencies it will sharply pare back the number of offices across the country authorized to resettle people in 2018 as President Donald Trump cuts the number of refugees allowed into the United States.
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The idea is that it will deter migrants from trying to make dangerous journeys into Europe and encourage a legal path to Europe by offering to resettle at least some Syrians among the nearly three million migrants already in Turkey.
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Many of the migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa, and elsewhere still try reach Britain, where they hope to resettle, either by climbing onto lorries heading onto ferries or by breaking into the nearby Channel Tunnel.
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About 315 of those complaints were requests for the mining company to resettle people who live near the mine — where gold extraction has created a population influx in the impoverished country, and violence near the mine has increased with this influx.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he expects to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the United Nations later this month to discuss military operations in northeast Syria, where Turkey plans to resettle one million Syrian refugees.
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So while the US has admitted 44 Syrian refugees over the last fiscal year (which started in October), only 11 of those have come since January 1 — putting the US on pace to resettle only 453 Syrians over all of 2018.
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"The obvious place to resettle them is America because they're less likely to be killed there and it's easier to protect them there under a new identity," it quoted what it called an intelligence source familiar with the negotiations as saying.
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Turkey's "Operation Peace Spring" aimed to clear Kurdish forces — who were a key US ally in the fight against ISIS — from its border area and resettle some 2 million Syrian refugees living in Turkey into a "safe zone" on the border.
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The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump said in September that it planned to allow only 18,000 refugees to resettle in the United States in the 2020 fiscal year, the lowest number in the history of the modern refugee program.
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Many of the migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere still try reach Britain, where they hope to resettle, either by climbing onto lorries heading onto ferries or by breaking into the nearby Channel Tunnel.
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One American official described preliminary efforts to cajole third countries to resettle some detainees who cannot be returned to their troubled home nations, following a precedent during the Obama administration of resettling many lower-level Guantánamo detainees in foreign states.
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The Trump administration is proposing to cut the number of refugees permitted to resettle in the U.S. next year to just 18,000 — down from a record-low of 30,000 last year, according to a State Department press release on Thursday.
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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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Before Donald Trump took office, the United States routinely allowed between 70,000 and 503,000 refugees to resettle permanently on our shores — a number he's cut and cut again so that fewer than half as many refugees are able to come here.
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How about the simplest, but most effective, thing we could do to save Syrian lives and let Syrian children grow up in peace and prosperity: Let refugees from this horrific conflict resettle in the US — something Trump is trying to ban completely?
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He is also helping those who helped America as the chief operating officer of No One Left Behind, a group dedicated to helping Afghan and Iraqi combat interpreters resettle in the US through the special immigrant visa (SIV) program born in 2006.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday the United States would honor a controversial refugee deal with Australia, under which the United States would resettle up to 1,250 asylum seekers, a deal President Donald Trump had described as "dumb".
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While aid agencies have called for the removal of the more than 1,000 refugees held for more than five years, Morrison is under immense pressure to resettle 40 children currently held on Nauru amid warnings they are suffering from declining mental health.
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The letter was signed by 25 other members of the Democratic caucus, including presidential candidate Bernie Sanders It requested an update on specific measures the administration plans to take to fulfill its commitment to resettle the remaining 8,264 Syrians within five months.
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She also pointed to research that refugees end up contributing more in taxes than what it costs to resettle them: on average, $21,000 among refugees who entered the US as adults between 2010 and 2014, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Republican backing for a plan to reduce the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the US dropped more than 30 points, while GOP support for a plan to increase the number of visas for low-skilled workers grew by 35 points.
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SYDNEY, April 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday the United States would honour a controversial refugee deal with Australia, under which the United States would resettle 1,250 asylum seekers, a deal President Donald Trump had described as "dumb".
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Beijing has said it would lay aside Rmb100bn ($15.4bn) to "resettle" coal and steel workers as part of a plan to cut unproductive capacity in both sectors, but local governments and the companies themselves are supposed to bear a portion of the costs.
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Vincent Mooney, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. RE: BECOMING EUROPEAN James Angelos traveled to a small German village to monitor how it struggled to resettle a small group of refugees, as its country struggles with the challenge of transforming itself into a republic of shared ideals.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The resettlement of refugees from Middle Eastern countries, particularly Syria, has been the center of a heated political debate after President Barack Obama last year pledged to resettle at least 21997,22011 refugees from the war-torn country in the United States.
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MORE stood before the United Nations General Assembly and pledged to resettle 2202,2628 refugees in the coming year, as part of his effort to leverage other countries to do more to rescue refugees and relieve the burden on countries of first arrival.
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"It outlines a significant shift in immigration policy towards reuniting more families, building our economy and upholding Canada's humanitarian traditions to resettle refugees and offer protection to those in need," said Immigration Minister John McCallum at a news conference in Brampton, Ont.
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NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR (Reuters) - India's ruling party will revive a plan to build secured camps to resettle scores of Hindus in the Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley, a senior leader said, a proposal that would almost certainly heighten tensions in the restive region.
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And tonight, the city of Palm Springs, where he has lived for three decades, will celebrate his philanthropic work — using his vast fortune to resettle Jewish refugee families — by naming him Man of the Decade at a gala attended by 800 admirers.
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Adam Driver stars as a New York theater director who's left reeling when his wife (Scarlett Johansson), an actress trying to resume her Hollywood career, hires a skilled attorney (Laura Dern) and works to resettle their 8-year-old son in Los Angeles.
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Turkey launched an assault last week against Kurdish forces in border areas of northern Syria, saying it seeks to set up a "safe zone" to resettle Syrian refugees but raising international alarm over the possibility of Islamic State militants escaping from prisons.
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Greg Abbott became the first governor in the country to announce that Texas no longer wanted to resettle new refugees, saying that a state that also was the epicenter of recent mass migration from Central America had done more than its share.
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Anadarko submitted a plan to resettle thousands of mostly farmers and fishermen who will be displaced by the LNG project last month, one of the last hurdles to jump before getting the go-ahead on a $24 billion project, two sources said.
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While anti-abortion work has been his passion, Mr. Lloyd's job as director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement entails broad responsibilities for helping people of all ages who are trying to resettle in the United States with financial, medical and other assistance.
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" In the executive order, signed in September, Trump said he determined that the federal government should resettle refugees only in jurisdictions "in which both the state and local governments have consented to receive refugees under the Department of State's Reception and Placement Program.
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Ameen's wife, Khansaa, and their three young children soon followed him to Turkey, where, after two years in limbo, Ameen logged in to the U.N.'s refugee portal and found that his family had been selected to resettle in the United States.
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Once a global leader, the US. has retreated from its commitment to resettle refugees -- cutting its refugee settlement ceiling from a historic average of 95,000 (by the International Rescue Committee's calculation) to just 18,000 this year -- and is seeking to restrict asylum rights.
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PHNOM PENH (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Children detained by Australia on the Pacific island of Nauru are suffering mentally and some attempting suicide, according to human rights groups and refugees who appealed to a regional leaders meeting on Wednesday to resettle them elsewhere.
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ANKARA, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that 50,000 people were migrating from Syria's northwestern region of Idlib to Turkey, and slammed Muslim nations for not supporting his plans to resettle refugees in other parts of north Syria.
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As for square dealing, one of the reasons Trump's truculent January phone call with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull so shocked Australians is that the American president appeared to renege on Barack Obama's pledge to resettle 1,250 refugees held in Australian detention centers.
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The status of refugees is obviously a very au currant topic in the United States and Europe, even though Portugal hasn't been as hostile as some of its neighbors, like Greece and Italy, volunteering to resettle up to 10,000 people in 2015.
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Kristyn Peck, associate director of children's services at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, one of two faith-based organizations that work with the government to resettle unaccompanied refugee minors, noted that Trump's ban put Fatima's case in a particularly tenuous position.
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KUSHNER: Yeah, I think that the amount of money you can spend to help refugees resettle in their countries and deal with aid is very impactful, so we're trying to — SWAN: So you agreed with the policy of cutting it to that level?
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ROME (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency is seeking to open a refugee transit center in Tripoli early next year to resettle or evacuate as many as 5,2003 of the most vulnerable refugees out of Libya each year, a senior U.N. official said on Friday.
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Agents from trafficking networks often promise to resettle refugees from Kurdistan, but instead bring them to hotels and brothels in Baghdad, Basrah and other cities across southern Iraq, according to reports from by both the US State Department and SEED, a Kurdistan-based nonprofit.
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So for the past three years, Belt has published in-depth features about NAFTA and manufacturing, stories encouraging refugees to resettle here, about race and redlining, population loss, the white working class — all those hot-button election issues that everybody suddenly can't stop talking about.
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The error in this campaign has been a misguided obsession with one percent: the small fraction of global refugees lucky enough to have a chance to resettle in the US, and the tiny slice of the federal budget the country devotes to critical foreign assistance.
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News Analysis JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has backed down under pressure before, but rarely in such a spectacular fashion as he did on Tuesday when he reneged on a deal with the United Nations to resettle thousands of African asylum seekers in Western countries.
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S. refugee swap again in doubt as officials exit Nauru SYDNEY/WASHINGTON - U.S. officials interviewing refugees held in an Australian-run offshore detention centre left the facility abruptly, three detainees say, throwing further doubt over a plan to resettle many of the detainees in America.
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And in the United States, where the IRC has an extensive network of offices that help resettle refugees, "We are expanding our existing legal immigration program, which historically aided refugees, and adding lawyers who can provide direct representation to people in immigration court," said Byrne.
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Human Rights Watch and others have repeatedly called for other countries to increase their assistance to Jordan, resettle greater numbers of Syrian refugees living in Jordan, and respond more generously to the U.N. refugee agency's budget in Jordan, which is currently only funded at 29%.
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It's something Turkish President Erdogan has been eager to do in order to push back the Kurdish militias he sees as an existential threat, and to establish a "safe zone" to resettle millions of Syrian refugees who fled to Turkey throughout the civil war.
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The United States has historically led the international community in refugee resettlement, and if a large Western country like the United States -- which the United Nations counts on for assistance -- doesn't step up, it's hard to resettle anywhere near the huge volume seeking new homes.
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As governor, Pence has pushed laws making it legal to discriminate against LGBTQ people, tried to keep nonprofits in his state from helping to resettle Syrian refugee families, and signed one of the worst laws in the country taking away women's access to reproductive healthcare.
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For the EU to resettle, as promised, thousands of legal Syrian refugees directly from Turkey - one for each Syrian returned from the Greek islands - will require most member states to take in more refugees than they have been willing to share out so far.
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As Vox's Dara Lind explained, while the US resettled tens of thousands of Syrian refugees in the final years of the Obama administration, under Trump, the United States is on pace to resettle fewer than 100 Syrian refugees this fiscal year, which ends September 30.
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The prime minister of Papua New Guinea, Peter O'Neill, had previously warned that his country lacked the resources to resettle them all, while the Australian immigration minister, Peter Dutton, said that that the court ruling was a matter for the Papua New Guinea administration.
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Then, last month, Netanyahu announced that he had reached agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to resettle about half of the African refugees in Israel to several Western countries and allow the other half to stay and be given temporary residency.
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COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - The United Nations' refugee agency has asked Bangladesh to allow it to negotiate with the United States, Canada and some European countries to resettle around 13,000 Rohingya Muslims living in the South Asian nation, a senior official at the agency said.
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The ministry of human resources in April said that China would need to resettle about half a million workers that lose jobs in the coal and steel sectors this year and will speed up development of a "black list" system for firms with wage arrears.
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Pence said the US would work with the People's Protection Units, a Kurdish-majority militia, to ensure an orderly withdrawal of Kurdish forces from a 20-mile safe zone along the border, where Turkey plans to resettle 2 million Syrian refugees living in Turkey.
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Texas has been one of the most assertive, suing the State Department in federal court to try to bar Syrian refugees from the state and, on Wednesday, vowing to stop assisting the thousands of refugees from around the world who resettle in Texas annually.
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MOCOA, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two years after a mudslide that killed more than 300 people in the Colombian rainforest town of Mocoa, local authorities are struggling to get the funds to resettle tens of thousands of residents living in areas at risk of flooding.
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He has accused European officials of breaking their promise to accelerate talks on Turkey's bid to join the E.U. And the U.N. is working with Australia on an unusual agreement to move refugees housed in offshore detention centers and resettle them in the U.S. ____ 6.
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Participants praised the achievements of refugees in the U.S. and criticized the Trump administration for cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the country, at an event organized by Church World Service, Oxfam, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service and Refugee Council USA. Sen.
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For the United States, Deputy Secretary of State Heather A. Higginbottom said the Obama administration had increased the number of interviewing officials at refugee processing centers in the region so that it could resettle at least 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of September.
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Advisor Stephen Miller and some other Trump administration officials have argued that it's too costly for the U.S. to resettle refugees, but a leaked report from the Department of Health and Human Services found that it's actually a long-term net positive for the economy.
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Two more pieces of news from the administration: Officials are considering sharply reducing the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the U.S. One plan would set a cap of 25,103 for next year — more than a 40 percent drop from this year's limit.
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In China, he was taken in by Christians who connected him to Liberty in North Korea, a California-based organization that helped him resettle in the United States, where today he is a student at Bard College and an activist for North Korean freedom.
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So mad have our refugee policies become that we even spent around $41 million on a deal with Cambodia to resettle our refugees, which ended up settling seven individuals, later whittled down to three, at a cost of more than $13 million per refugee.
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Two others said another factor is a cold-eyed assessment of the money and resources that would be needed to resettle larger amounts of refugees at a time when federal immigration authorities already face a yearslong backlog of hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers.
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Fifty-two countries made commitments to increase their financial contributions to international humanitarian organizations by $19503 billion over 2015 levels, double the number of refugees they resettle, and improve access to education for one million refugee children and to lawful work for one million adults.
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Whatever the fate of the few hundred thousand Rohingya still remaining in Burma, the international community should stop setting its hair on fire and focus on doing what it does best: help resettle the Rohingya refugees to countries where they can have a real future.
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Australia refuses to allow them on Australian soil out of a belief that doing so would restart a flood of boats toward our shores, and rejected the offer of New Zealand, which has open borders with Australia, to resettle them for the same reason.
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Adam Driver gives a searing performance as a New York theater director who is caught flat-footed when his wife (Scarlett Johansson), an accomplished actress, hires a tough attorney (Laura Dern) and threatens to resettle with their eight-year-old son in Los Angeles.
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Surachate Hakparn, who met with Ms. Alqunun at the airport, said that agency representatives would take up to five days to determine whether she qualifies for refugee status and, assuming that she does, another five days to find a place for her to resettle.
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Imad and Houda's stories echo those of thousands of others who have fled violence and persecution and been allowed to rebuild their lives in the U.S. They are just two of thousands of refugees who make positive contributions to the communities in which they resettle.
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Perhaps the most plainly political of Michelle Obama's guests, Ramo is one of a handful of Syrian refugees to resettle in the United States after Congress sought to block their arrival and more than two dozen governors refused to allow them in their respective states.
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Yet Turkey has ambitious goals for its current operation: to set up a safe zone and eventually resettle upwards of 2 million Syrian refugees living inside Turkey across the border, a move that observers say would dramatically change the Kurdish-Arab demographic balance in northeastern Syria.
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But members of Congress have an option that would at least mitigate the damage, both to Syrian Kurds and to America's reputation as a reliable partner: compel the Trump administration to resettle a significant number of Syrian Kurdish refugees in the United States on an expedited basis.
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Its conservative coalition government under Malcolm Turnbull is so concerned about border control that last year it rebuffed New Zealand's offer to resettle asylum-seekers from detention centres run for Australia's benefit in Nauru, a tiny Pacific island state, and Manus island, part of Papua New Guinea.
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"The lawsuit was a political scam about the states not wanting to resettle any refugees based on a groundless proposition that Syrians represented a security risk that was found by the court unfounded and discriminatory," Dana Rubin, the executive director for IRC's Dallas office, told me.
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Lingering over it all is a strong feeling of lives being wasted by a world compassionate enough only to prevent people starving or being slaughtered in civil war, but not caring enough to resettle its many children and young adults—and make their lives worth living.
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Here are some of her stories from the past few months: Interestingly, while the importation of Democrat-leaning voters diminishes the electoral impact of conservative voters, it is, ironically, Republican officials who have led the push to resettle even larger numbers of immigrants inside the country.
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S. refugee swap again in doubt as officials exit Nauru SYDNEY/WASHINGTON - U.S. officials interviewing refugees held in an Australian-run offshore detention centre left the facility abruptly, three detainees tell Reuters, throwing further doubt over a plan to resettle many of the detainees in America.
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Stop the mosque Then the word got out: First, details leaked from a county planning meeting, then one local politician opined whether the federal government would resettle Middle Eastern refugees nearby as a result, and soon the "STOP the Mosque" Facebook page appeared with the #NoJihadInDixie hashtag.
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Turkey considers Kurdish militant groups operating in northern Syria to be terrorists despite their work with the U.S-led coalition against ISIS and has sought to drive Kurdish forces out of an area of the country where it plans to resettle more than 1 million Syrian refugees.
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Here are the facts: Since the end of World War II, the UNHCR — whose mandate is to protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people, and assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country — has helped tens of millions of people resettle.
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Communities across our country are experiencing the devastation from climate change right now: from California's drought affecting agriculture and livelihoods of agricultural workers, to Houston's unpredictable and fierce storms inundating its concrete-laden downtown, and federal agencies budgeting billions to resettle the first American climate refugees.
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But the European Union has agreed to resettle only 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next two years; the United Nations refugee agency called that figure "very low," given that 4.8 million Syrians have fled their homes, and it takes no account of refugees from anywhere else.
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Given the likelihood that even more Puerto Ricans will resettle on the mainland the Center for Popular Democracy and Local Progress have published a policy guide, the first of its kind, offering a roadmap for cities and states to address the immediate needs of their new constituents.
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A first European Commission report on implementation of last month's EU-Turkey agreement said good progress had been made but more resources and commitments were needed to carry out sustained returns of migrants from Greece to Turkey and to resettle Syrian refugees from Turkey directly to Europe.
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The White House consults annually with Congress, the State Department, and other agencies — including the Department of Homeland Security and National Security Council — to make the Presidential Determination, which sets a cap on the total number of refugees the U.S. will resettle in a given year.
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Its clients have often been Jews — its first mission was to aid those fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe — but the agency has also helped resettle many other kinds of refugees, including thousands of Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians after Communist victories in Southeast Asia in the 1970s.
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"Today a dark shadow has passed across the great American legacy and promise of protecting refugees," said Linda Hartke, the president of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, one of nine agencies — most of them faith-based — that partner with the United States government to resettle refugees.
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The restriction, introduced by the center-right government that preceded Ms. Ardern's center-left government, which has been in power for nearly two years, allowed refugees from Middle Eastern or African nations to resettle in New Zealand only if they could prove they already had relatives there.
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Wilayat Butt and her children were Pakistani citizens, but they used political connections to secure the right to resettle in Kashmir, where she and her husband had family roots, a dogged effort that was documented in a 58-page dossier by the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs.
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Late Wednesday evening, Trump said he is weighing the "dumb deal" under which the U.S. would resettle up to 1,250 refugees who were placed in controversial detention facilities on the island nation of Nuaru and Manus Island in Papua New Guinea after attempting to enter Australia.
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"In keeping with that goal, the president has proposed that we resettle 000,000 refugees from around the world, which will be in addition to the hundreds of thousands of asylum applicants we will process," said Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
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In a report released late last week, the group argued that recognizing the region as a World Heritage site would bolster China's efforts to resettle tens of thousands of pastoralists from the plateaus into villages, while threatening the habitat of the antelope and the environment in general.
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Underlining the risks of the influx for Greece, the president of the European Parliament warned this week that the country risked becoming a "parking lot" for migrants unless the European Union moved to put in effect a plan to resettle thousands of migrants stuck there and in Italy.
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