In 2017, Church World Service reported resettling 477 refugees here.
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Resettling refugees in states has long been a sensitive issue.
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Preserving Somaliland's culture Halgan left Somaliland in 1991, resettling in France.
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Since resettling, they have opened another bakery outside of San Diego.
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It finally gave up and began resettling Yemenis in late 2014.
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In 2015, 95 voters cast ballots in a referendum on resettling.
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There was a time when Ahmad harbored reservations about resettling in America.
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Concerns around resettling local residents were high in all the hydropower projects.
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Nearly 1.2 million refugees need resettling globally to third countries, he said.
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The more ambitious speak of resettling 0003,2000 Syrians a year to Europe.
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It will be resettling into normal growth by the end of 2020.
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Even if given refugee status, they are prevented from resettling in Australia.
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Mike Pence enacted, which prohibited Syrian refugees from resettling in the state.
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Australia, they noted, has extensive experience resettling individuals from war-torn countries.
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Yet, as these Iraqis began to arrive, opposition to resettling them was swift.
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The government is resettling Syrian refugees in rural areas as well as cities.
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But Sow anticipates challenges in resettling people the water has yet to reach.
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By contrast, former Democratic President Barack Obama proposed resettling 110,000 refugees in fiscal 2017.
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President Barack Obama has set a target of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees by Sept. 1.23.
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Germany alone took in nearly a million asylum seekers, requiring $6.7 billion in resettling costs.
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The Gulf states could add to their informal share of Syrians by formally resettling more.
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Since World War II, the United States has been the world's leader in resettling refugees.
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He is also talking about expelling the Kurds and resettling the area with Syrian refugees.
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In the case of Syrian refugees, that would have meant resettling 65,000 in this country.
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For years America led the world, resettling more persecuted people as refugees than any other country.
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It also helps in resettling migrants accepted by foreign countries — and at times returning them home.
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President Barack Obama has set a target of resettling 10,000 refugees by the end of September.
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The problem, Verchick said, is that historically, the government is simply not good at resettling communities.
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We should focus on resettling refugees out of Libya and bringing stability to a divided country.
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It has chosen to fulfill its commitment partly by resettling a limited number of refugees here.
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Resettling refugees in third countries has never been the solution to the problem of stateless people.
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The UNHCR -- the UN's refugee agency -- has repeatedly warned of the risk of resettling the refugees.
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Its immigration patterns reflected that, with New Englanders resettling here, followed by Germans and Eastern Europeans.
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Smith, a Presbyterian minister, helped inspire the colonization movement, which advocated resettling freed slaves in Africa.
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There, and in Kurdish areas across northern Iraq, he spent the next two decades resettling Arabs.
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"Prior to 2202, Vermont was resettling an average of approximately 2628 refugees per year," Scott wrote.
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The Obama administration in August hit its goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States.
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But Canada led the world by resettling 725 refugees per 1 million residents, a per-capita high.
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One high-level defector even became a pizza deliveryman upon resettling in the US, according to Augustyn.
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That's a lot of money in Ethiopia, but it's certainly less than the cost of resettling families.
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Officials in these areas are resettling villagers near cities in government-provided apartments, sometimes against their will.
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Resettling the Syrian refugees across the border would ease this pressure on Mr. Erdogan and his government.
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The court mandated that the government resume resettling refugees in the United States beginning in five days.
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The Obama administration gave up on Yemen stabilizing and began resettling Yemeni detainees elsewhere in late 2014.
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These courses are offered only to those who are in the process of resettling in the United States.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has embraced a policy of open immigration and resettling more refugees in Canada.
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Another veterans group, VeteransRespond, last week began resettling campers at a location affiliated with another camp, Sacred Stone.
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The 30 families are still on the island, waiting out the long process of resettling the entire community.
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An unfunded NFIP could prevent thousands of Harvey victims from resettling in their hometowns, complicating payouts to policyholders.
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However, he said negotiations continued with PNG about resettling the men within PNG or at a third country.
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The development team also faced the delicate task of resettling around 3,000 families living on the original site.
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Last year, Mr. Dutton announced that Papua New Guinea would begin resettling refugees held at the Manus camp.
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The administration also began working on resettling Yemenis in other places, starting with Eastern Europe in late 2014.
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In other words, resettling refugees is not just the right thing to do -- it's the smart thing, too.
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Somali refugees began resettling in the area in the 1990s, fleeing the country's growing violence and civil war.
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The remaining states face a January 25.6 deadline to request funding from the State Department for resettling refugees.
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Australia said it would consider resettling her if the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) deemed her a refugee.
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Resettling refugees directly from countries that host lots of them, such as Turkey, Lebanon and Kenya, is another option.
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Resettling in the US was "a scary process because you don't know what you're getting yourself into," Nuur said.
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In this case, the total cost of resettling the refugees would be between about $2.8 billion and $5.2 billion.
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The pick was an unusual one: Much of Lloyd's career has focused on crusading against abortion, not resettling migrants.
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In the decades since World War II, the United States has been an unparalleled global leader in resettling refugees.
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The president and chief executive of the I.R.C., David Miliband, said that resettling refugees can be a daunting process.
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By contrast, former Democratic President Barack Obama proposed resettling 110,000 refugees in the 2017 fiscal year ending in September.
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Instead, we must focus on identifying and resettling bona fide refugees and prioritize regional and global security and development.
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The Polish government responded by simply resettling millions of people from the territory it lost to the areas it gained.
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By resettling the child refugees, Morrison will meet a key demand from several independent lawmakers for supporting for his government.
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"I work for an organization called the International Rescue Committee resettling refugees in New York and New Jersey," she says.
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Feeding refugees is considered an essential function of the State Department, but resettling them permanently isn't on the same level.
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The United States must also increase its commitments to resettlement, doubling its current commitment and resettling 140,000 refugees in 2017.
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Some countries, including Hungary and Slovakia, have objected to a proposed EU quota system for resettling migrants across the bloc.
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The most challenging aspect of resettling families, which are often as big as eight people, has been finding affordable housing.
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Resettling migrant workers (20 percent of the population) and poverty alleviation programs will also direct large resources toward domestic spending.
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The government only recently started resettling Yemenis elsewhere; of the 36 left on the transfer list today, 29 are Yemenis.
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It doesn't seem like resettling people in developed counties is going to be much of an answer to this problem.
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Resettling to Rebuild With so many homes destroyed, there aren't enough people currently living on the island to rebuild quickly.
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Even before the hearing, however, advocates for the mentally ill said that the process for resettling residents was deeply flawed.
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Office closures are a new reality for agencies tasked with resettling refugees as the number of admissions has drastically dropped.
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"There's no real, moral justification for resettling large numbers of refugees," said Mr. Krikorian, adding that his group's research shows that resettling a refugee from the Middle East in the United States costs 12 times as much as what the United Nations estimates it would cost to care for the person in the region.
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So clearing out the Kurds, resettling refugees, and launching a military would ostensibly give Erdoğan a much-needed boost at home.
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Human rights groups have once again called on the Turnbull administration to rethink its approach to resettling refugees and asylum seekers.
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"The goal here should be to return them to their homeland" as opposed to resettling them in Western nations, Giuliani argued.
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But for refugees who are resettling in cities in Oregon, the mythology surrounding the "megaquake" has sent them into a tailspin.
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For the cost of resettling one refugee in the United States, we can assist more than 2603 in their home region.
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An unfunded NFIP could have also blocked thousands of Hurricane Harvey victims from resettling in their hometowns, complicating payouts to policyholders.
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In addition to fiscal concerns, there is a considerable national security threat related to resettling refugees from countries prone to terrorism.
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But Hassan was the only Democratic governor to support halting Syrian refugees from resettling in the United States, creating party backlash.
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The initial order also called for a 120-day ban on admitting refugees and an indefinite suspension on resettling Syrian refugees.
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Australia said on Tuesday it would consider resettling her if the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) deemed her a refugee.
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But one (perhaps unintended) consequence of Trump's executive order remains: It has galvanized bipartisan state and local support for resettling refugees.
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Austria wants the bloc's focus to shift away from resettling refugees within the EU and toward preventing further waves of arrivals.
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A contemporary and friend of Milos Forman, he was part of the Czech New Wave before resettling in the United States.
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Mr. Abbott said in his letter that refugees would be able to come to Texas after first resettling in another state.
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Mr. Diyab has had a troubled time resettling in Uruguay, saying he wants to leave it and join his family elsewhere.
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S. refugee deal brokered by the Obama administration that involved the resettling of refugees on Manus Island and Nauru, the Post stated.
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And it has called into question why the US should dedicate resources to resettling refugees rather than focusing on the southern border.
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The move was part of a commitment by the UK to resettling Syrian refugees on the heels of the European refugee crisis.
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Now she'll begin the long process of security and medical checks at the embassy of whatever country agrees to consider resettling her.
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Diplomats in Athens believe the Turks will make a deal conditional on EU countries resettling Syrians from refugee camps in southern Turkey.
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But it would potentially complicate things for the EU, he says, in terms of the ongoing question of resettling migrants and refugees.
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It's rejected evidence produced by the Department of Health and Human Services showing a net benefit to the economy from resettling refugees.
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There hasn't even been a discussion on the possible costs of resettling these refugees, let alone on fair and appropriate burden sharing.
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The newspaper reported that dozens of Iranians left the country more than a year ago with the hopes of resettling in America.
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Lilburn Boggs ordered Mormons to be killed, which forced many to leave the state before eventually resettling in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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The fate of the detainees remains uncertain, with Papua New Guinea and Australia each arguing the other is responsible for resettling them.
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At the IRC, we are exploring the possibility of creating a financial facility that pays for the initial cost of resettling refugees.
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They anticipate resettling around 2,400 refugees this fiscal year, down from the roughly 6,20193 refugees World Relief placed in fiscal year 2016.
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The organization on Monday is resettling two Syrian refugees in the San Diego area as part of the final push to 10,000.
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The land of the free has a proud history of resettling refugees from far-off places, rehousing many more than any other country.
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"For the cost of resettling one refugee in the United States, we can assist more than 10 in their home region," Trump said.
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A deal on resettling refugees more equably across the Union to relieve the pressure on Italy was reached only at 5 am Thursday.
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The US meets its goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees; Uzbekistan in crisis; what does it mean not to salute the national anthem?
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In February, Canada met its goal of resettling 25,000 Syrian refugees, and the country has pledged to take in 10,000 more this year.
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This year, the government has pledged to create 11 million new urban jobs, and has set aside funds for resettling laid-off workers.
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They called on leaders to do more to prevent war, uphold human rights norms and distribute the burden of resettling refugees more equitably.
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The Archdiocese of Indiana had long been deeply involved in resettling refugees, including Syrians, and was about to welcome a new Syrian family.
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The Trump administration proposed resettling 2,000 refugees from Europe in fiscal year 113 (a 50 percent reduction from the fiscal year 2017 target).
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For the price of resettling one refugee in the United States, 12 could be resettled in a safe zone in their home region.
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One was the idea of colonization, which advocated resettling freed blacks in Africa, out a belief that they could never coexist with whites.
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I have witnessed jokes on TV shows directed at the tradespeople who are an essential spine of the economy where we are resettling.
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The Obama administration is on track to reach its goal of resettling 85033,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. by the end of September.
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For the price of resettling 1 refugee in the United States, 21625 could be resettled in a safe zone in their home region.
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A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit from Texas seeking to block the Obama administration from resettling Syrian refugees in the state.
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Even if detainees are determined to be genuine refugees, a process which can take years, they are still banned from resettling in Australia.
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We had paid all of our attention to delivering resources to refugees, to resettling refugees, on advocacy inside the Beltway on behalf of refugees.
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The weak Brazilian real, which Olympics organizers are hoping will attract Olympic tourism, spiked briefly on Monday's announcement about the impeachment process before resettling.
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Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 43, smiles after a press conference in Toronto at the offices of COSTI, a refugee resettling agency, on Jan. 15.
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The government has assigned 100bn yuan ($14.5bn) to pay for the resettling and retraining of workers laid off in the steel and coal industries.
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The IRC expressed "dismay" when the President announced the goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees, arguing the administration should take in 100,000 this year.
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Preventing the construction of new settlements in precarious locations must be a priority, along with resettling people away from flood-prone areas, experts say.
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Resettling them in stable places would increase the chances they would live peacefully, officials argued, rather than face persecution or drift into Islamist militancy.
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She was born in Vietnam to a family of Chinese descent but fled by boat as a teenager, eventually resettling in the United States.
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The Obama administration appears close to resettling the remaining detainees recommended for transfer, some of whom have been stranded on that list for years.
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The petition comes after some House Republicans called for a ban on refugees resettling in the United States after the mass shooting in Florida.
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Since then, he has found a path to provide for himself, his wife and their two daughters (they have welcomed a son since resettling).
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At the time, liberals believed that resettling these refugees in the United States could potentially restore America's standing as a compassionate and humanitarian nation.
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But before that, Hungary will hold a referendum in September or early October on whether to accept an EU quota system for resettling migrants.
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The State Department is planning on reducing the number of local offices aimed at resettling refugees across the U.S. in 85033, Reuters reported Thursday.
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A federal judge ruled that the state of Indiana cannot block Syrian refugees from resettling in the state under an order from then Gov.
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And with no sectarian reconciliation process to speak of, any setback in the resettling of Mosul could dangerously add to the list of grievances.
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Filmed over a decade, it tracks their efforts to secure some $129 billion for the resettling of half a million Jamaican Rastafarians in Africa.
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A law approved by the Danish legislators allows immigration authorities to seize valuable items, including jewelry and cash, to offset the cost of resettling them.
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Rand Paul of Kentucky pointed to the attack as justification for placing further restrictions on resettling refugees from 33 countries designated "high-risk," including Somalia.
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" Paxton said he was "disappointed with the court's determination that Texas cannot hold the federal government accountable to consult with us before resettling refugees here.
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The United States can also help a larger number of refugees by resettling them in their home region and enabling their eventual safe return home.
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EU officials questioned how the one-for-one scheme would work in practice, with several EU countries objecting to any quota system for resettling refugees.
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Not surprisingly, given the pressure on public services, relations between locals and the newcomers are "sensitive", say volunteers at the Sanya Association for Resettling Retirees.
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Officials need to go further by centralizing the registration and screening of refugees and resettling them based on the capacity of countries to accept them.
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Ultimately, the fate of any efforts to narrow the refugee program appear doomed for the time being, given President Obama's strong support for resettling refugees.
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Donald MintzTrumansburg, N.Y. To the Editor: My wife and I are resettling from our blue-collar suburban house to a farmhouse in rural central Kansas.
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Stool samples and other data from more than 500 women revealed that immigrants from these groups began losing their native microbes almost immediately after resettling.
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"The United States has long been a global leader in resettling the world's most vulnerable people," the page says, without the slightest hint of irony.
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"It's repulsive," said Mark Hetfield, president and CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a faith-based nonprofit dedicated to resettling refugees in the United States.
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"I am disappointed with the court's determination that Texas cannot hold the federal government accountable to consult with us before resettling refugees here," Mr. Paxton said.
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But Hassan was the only Democratic governor to support halting Syrian refugees from resettling in the United States, creating party backlash Wisconsin general Former Democratic Sen.
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Others returned to the West Coast and tried to pick up where they had left off, but had trouble resettling, acting as if nothing had happened.
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By resettling refugees, the United States helps preserve stability and sends a message of support to countries whose cooperation it needs on a range of issues.
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The difference is that the Obama administration was resettling other refugees instead: about 70,000 a year from 2013 to 2015, and 85,000 a year in 2016.
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Meanwhile, other European governments have largely shut their doors to new arrivals and have expressed little or no interest in resettling some of those entering Greece.
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The US role in resettling refugees was a point of debate before President Trump took office, with American attitudes toward refugees mostly split down partisan lines.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pushing a radical solution — resettling refugees in a swath of Syrian territory controlled by the United States and its Kurdish allies.
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Scott concluded by adding that he will be seeking authority from the state legislature to consult with local governments interested in resettling refugees into their communities.
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Even after resettling in South Korea, defectors feared that the North Korean authorities would trace their whereabouts and retaliate against their relatives back in the North.
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If the international community really wants to do something constructive about the crisis, it will stop debating semantics and focus on permanently resettling the Rohingya refugees.
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HIAS, which started resettling Jewish immigrants fleeing persecution in 1881, had allocated enough resources so that it could ramp up quickly, if necessary, Mr. Hetfield said.
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Kay Bellor, at the national office of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, is concerned that the commitment to resettling any refugees, period, might be in danger.
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But funds needed from the national government to buy the land for resettling people and to build new homes have not yet been secured, the mayor said.
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As the de facto leader of the Free Folk, he's made some unpopular decisions in order to ensure their safety, like resettling them south of the Wall.
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Its redevelopment plans include resettling families away from risky areas and rebuilding power grids, water supplies and other critical infrastructure in a more robust way, Macie said.
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Washington (CNN)The Obama administration will reach its target Monday of resettling 21,2900 Syrian refugees by October 1, National Security Adviser Susan Rice announced in a statement.
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One exception is Texas, where Ken Paxton, the state attorney-general, has filed a lawsuit to block the federal government from resettling Syrian refugees on its territory.
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But legal definition aside, another reason why the discussion isn't taking place is that exact figures on the costs of resettling refugees are hard to come by.
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Washington (CNN)Years after defecting from Russia and resettling in the US, former KGB officer Alexander Zaporozhsky was lured back to the country he had once betrayed.
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The United States is on pace to meet and even surpass President Obama's goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the country by the end of September.
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In the absence of a foreign policy victory in Venezuela, President Trump's economic embargo on the country shows his sights resettling on the prospect of regime change.
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On the campaign trail, Trump railed against the notion of resettling refugees in the U.S., warning that doing so would make the country vulnerable to terrorist plots.
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Trump told the United Nations in September that the U.S. should focus on resettling refugees in their home region, rather than bringing them to the United States.
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A decade later, after resettling in Shanghai and starting a family, she was forced to flee her home again, this time from Mao and the Cultural Revolution.
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A cross-party committee said the British government should "lead by example" by resettling and employing refugees, especially those forcibly uprooted from their homes in sub-Saharan Africa.
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World Relief, one of the nine nonprofit groups tasked with resettling refugees, closed one of its offices in Jacksonville, Florida, this year because of last year's refugee cuts.
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Last week, President Trump described resettling refugees as "importing the terrorism," even as he abandoned those who fought with us against the gravest terrorist threat in recent memory.
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For example, one episode tells the story of a Syrian refugee hiring a dating coach to better help them understand the German dating codes after resettling in Berlin.
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Kerry said the U.S. would press countries currently resettling refugees to double the number they take in and urge at least 10 more countries to begin accepting refugees.
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The Texas lawsuit accused the State Department and other federal agencies of violating the Refugee Act of 1980 by failing to consult with state officials before resettling refugees.
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Legislation introduced this month in Congress seeks to attack the problem at its root, with funds for combating human trafficking and resettling refugees within Central America and Mexico.
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Monday's lawsuit asks the court to stop refugees from resettling in Tennessee, the Tennessean said, until all costs related to settlement are paid for by the federal government.
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Online hate speech is on the rise, reflecting the rising nationalism displayed by some supporters of Donald J. Trump, who has opposed resettling refugees in the United States.
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How to weigh his crimes (insider trading, betrayal) against his good deeds (resettling hundreds of refugee families who would have suffered and perhaps died in their own countries)?
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Faced with the imperative to turn black political empowerment into material gains, some within the A.N.C. called for the townships to be dismantled while resettling people near cities.
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As Venezuelans began resettling across Latin America in large numbers in 223, for the most part they found open borders and paths to legal residency in neighboring countries.
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"Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet" (The Design Museum, $35, 220 pp.) surveys a century of proposals for resettling adventurers many millions of miles from home.
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The Obama administration is on track to meet its goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States by the end of September, government officials said Friday.
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For the price of resettling one refugee in the United States, 83 could be resettled in a safe zone in their home region, which I agree with 100%.
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Satellites also revealed evidence that the affected birds started resettling at the nearest breeding grounds, the Dawson-Lambton colony, which is located 34 miles south of Halley Bay.
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Washington (CNN)Six months in, President Barack Obama's goal of resettling 10,2500 Syrian refugees in the United States by the end of the fiscal year is in serious jeopardy.
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For though it is true that refugees represent a bigger upfront cost than other migrants—America spends between $10,000 and $20,000 resettling each one—they repay that in spades.
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Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a Tea Party Republican, cited the arrest in Houston as a reason why Texas has been seeking to block Syrian refugees from resettling there.
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Unlike in the United States, where the prospect of resettling Syrian refugees has become politically polarizing, in Brazil, also a nation of immigrants, the influx has largely been welcomed.
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She says Duckworth's "dangerous policies," such as support for resettling Syrian refugees in the United States without more stringent review and for the Iran nuclear deal, destabilize national security.
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Like many sponsors, Ms. Stark believes that her country is especially suited to resettling refugees, with its vast size, strong social welfare system, and a government that emphasizes multiculturalism.
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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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This moment demands bold action -- not only to revive the bipartisan American tradition of resettling refugees, but to broaden the coalition of countries accepting the world's most vulnerable people.
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Refugee resettlement organizations have criticized the move, arguing that allowing cities and states to block refugees from resettling there is un-American and will cripple the refugee resettlement program.
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The countries who have employed Afghans must ensure their safety, preferably by resettling them, but at least with public commitment to exacting consequences on the Taliban for taking retribution.
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A federal judge agreed Wednesday to block the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order allowing state and local government officials to reject refugees from resettling in their jurisdictions.
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And, perhaps most painfully, he announced a new set of restrictions that would bar Iraqis from resettling in the United States, and even visiting, at least for a time.
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The US has been a world leader in resettling refugees: Historically, half of all refugees who've been permanently resettled in a distant country have come to the United States.
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For a decade now, Puerto Rican families have been resettling in Central Florida, largely because of the limited economic opportunities on the island (and, more recently, because of the hurricane).
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This is the reality that the government promised it would be able to avoid, as it ambitiously tried to meet its goal of resettling 25,000 in a few short months.
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Republican leaders in Texas seized on the arrest of Mr. Al Hardan, pointing to it as a justification for their efforts to prohibit Syrian refugees from resettling in the state.
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Votes are scheduled in the Senate on how to deal with the refugee crisis in Syria, and Cruz has been an outspoken critic of resettling them in the United States.
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It's one of the issues the central government has pledged to tackle — these "zombie" state firms — but doing so likely means more layoffs and the big question of resettling workers.
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" ON RESETTLING WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN FARMERS, DAILY TELEGRAPH, March 2018 "If you look at the footage and read the stories, you hear the accounts, it's a horrific circumstance they face.
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Though there have been some exceptions: the U.S. did a decent thing by helping 500 Andijan refugees, who escaped the government-executed massacre in May 2005, resettling to the West.
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Trump's order also suspended the State Department's Refugee Assistance Program for 120 days, permanently barred Syrian refugees from resettling in the U.S., and carved out an exception for religious minorities.
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After the U.S. withdrawal, they were repeatedly targeted by the Iranian regime sponsored terrorist attacks in Camps Ashraf and Liberty in Iraq, before finally resettling in Europe earlier this year.
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Sixty percent of those surveyed in an online poll said the Canadian government had done a good job of resettling Syrian refugees since the Liberals came to power in 2015.
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Migrant crisis The burden of resettling refugees in Europe will be more widely shared among European Union countries, now that EU leaders have struck a deal to confront the crisis.
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But the funds needed from the national government to buy the land for resettling people and to build new homes have not yet been defined or secured, the mayor said.
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As the family left for Michigan on Wednesday lugging 10 suitcases, they hoped to end a long road — still fraught with fear — to resettling as refugees in the United States.
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Those repairs were seen as vital to persuading hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees to return home — people the Trump administration has largely barred from resettling in the United States.
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Lloyd runs the agency charged with resettling refugees and caring for unaccompanied children, including those separated from their families as part of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy on immigration.
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Our journalists visited Rakhine State to see the government's plans for resettling the Rohingya Muslims, two years after a vicious ethnic cleansing campaign left hundreds of thousands of them displaced.
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It said officials at the MI6 intelligence agency have had discussions with their counterparts in the CIA about resettling the victims poisoned last month in the English city of Salisbury.
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If elected, Issacs will oversee an organization that is actively involved in resettling refugees, many of them Muslim, who have fled from the war torn regions of Iraq and Syria.
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First, transfer the U.S. contribution and control of the refugees to the UN High Commission on Refugees – which has the mission of resettling people in countries that will have them.
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The About New York column on Wednesday, about the challenges of resettling refugees under President Trump's recent executive order, misstated part of the name of a refugee agency in Connecticut.
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While it may disrupt fewer lives, the new ban, and its justification, conveys the same spurious messages: that Muslims are inherently dangerous and that resettling refugees represents a dire threat.
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The volunteers resettling her family — a group of teachers, pediatricians and other friends and neighbors spurred by devastating images of young refugees and casualties of war — watched Bayan with wonder.
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For a decade now, Puerto Rican families have been resettling in Central Florida, largely because of the limited economic opportunities on the island (and more recently, because of the hurricane).
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In order to boost productivity the government has begun resettling semi-nomadic cattle herders from the Lower Omo basin into permanent villages along irrigated canals—a controversial process known as "villagisation".
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"We are aware that these sites are far, but we do not have space for resettling so many people in the city," said K.S. Kandasamy, deputy commissioner of the municipal corporation.
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He once hoped to reach Germany, but he is now thinking of applying for asylum in Greece and looking for work as a pharmacist or a translator to help resettling migrants.
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Trump is still resettling fewer European refugees than Obama did — the current stats are about 2000 percent short of actual European refugee resettlements in fiscal year 22018, Obama's last full year.
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He replaced corrupt and incompetent officials and personally headed the recovery committee charged with rebuilding destroyed or damaged infrastructure and buildings and resettling over 500,000 people who had fled Communist control.
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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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"While we often overstate the security threats and economic costs of resettling more refugees, we routinely understate the likely consequences of failing to muster the global response that is needed," Power said.
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This €3.2bn pot, set up in 2015, gives African states money and help in resettling migrants returning from Europe and Libya in exchange for trying to stop illegal migration at its source.
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The Policy Research Office of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said Hebei, China's biggest steel-producing region, was facing heavy financial pressures when it came to resettling laid-off workers.
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Traditionally the most welcoming country in the world, by far, in resettling refugees, the US has barely increased its intake of Syrians and suffered considerable political backlash for taking any at all.
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After retirement, I served as board chair of Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area (LSS/NCA) and was deeply involved in resettling legal immigrants and unaccompanied minors in the DMV.
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In the US, a CIA program focuses on secretly rescuing and resettling spies like them who are in danger of being caught or killed for betraying their country in service to Washington.
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He referred to the costs of "long-term uncontrolled migration" and promoted keeping refugees in or near their home countries -- rather than resettling them in far-flung countries like the United States.
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With the 120-day refugee ban coming to an end soon, this new directive is a striking change from the Obama administration, which had a goal of resettling more than 110,000 refugees.
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Many black Chicagoans have taken only small steps away from the city, resettling in nearby suburbs in Illinois or Indiana that offer more highly rated schools and a lower cost of living.
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The United States placed a priority on accepting these Iraqi refugees, and preventing them from resettling in America would "undermine" previous commitments to allies, the retired military officers wrote in a Sept.
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Myanmar cover-up: Our reporter Hannah Beech visited Rakhine State to see the government's plans for resettling the Rohingya Muslims, two years after a vicious ethnic cleansing displaced hundreds of thousands them.
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NEW YORK The About New York column on Wednesday, about the challenges of resettling refugees under President Trump's recent executive order, misstated part of the name of a refugee agency in Connecticut.
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But Cubans, who can enter the United States legally as "parolees" under a 1966 congressional act, have been resettling outside that city for years through State Department-backed refugee agencies headquartered there.
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"For the cost of resettling one refugee in the United States, we can assist more than 10 in their home region," Trump said in his September address to the U.N. General Assembly.
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Kurdish groups have accused Turkey and the rebels of a policy of resettling people from other parts of Syria into homes seized from Kurds who fled the Turkish incursion into Afrin in February.
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Pence was among more than 25 U.S. governors, mostly Republicans, who urged President Barack Obama to stop resettling refugees fleeing Syria's civil war after November attacks by extremists in Paris that killed 130.
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The United States is resettling fewer refugees than the rest of the world combined according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR).
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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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In fiscal year 2016 (October 2015-September 2016), the administration basically met its target of resettling 85,453 refugees; for fiscal year 2017, which started in October 2016, it proposed bringing in 110,000 refugees.
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"A lot of our clients say coming to the U.S. and resettling here was the hardest thing they've had to do," said Adrienne Ramm-Granberg, senior development coordinator for the International Rescue Committee.
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Papua New Guinea has said that resettling the migrants, all of whom are men, is the exclusive responsibility of Australia, and that it would not force the detainees to settle on the island.
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The Trump administration has vastly reduced American aid for refugees and resettlement, arguing that helping displaced people return to war-torn regions is preferable to resettling them in the United States or elsewhere.
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That's why refugee advocates had lobbied Abbott as well as other Texas political leaders at all levels of government to express support for resettling refugees after Trump announced his executive order in September.
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They found that some families took only small steps away from the city, resettling in nearby suburbs in Illinois or Indiana that offer more highly rated schools and a lower cost of living.
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Trump's tweets come after the Supreme Court agreed late Tuesday to lift restrictions on his travel ban until further notice, allowing the administration to continue barring most refugees from resettling in the country.
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The disjointed, frantic, yet strangely comforting music Eldahr's produced since moving to Lebanon, and then resettling in the US a year ago, captures what it feels like to live in a displaced state.
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" That accusation drew a stiff rejoinder from the White House, where an official told Fox News "we believe the administration is making a difference in aiding and resettling victims of religious persecution in Iraq.
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Pence used a personal email when he discussed issues like the resettling of Syrian refugees and other matters on an AOL account that was hacked in a phishing scam, according to emails released Thursday.
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The Australian government has consistently stuck by its asylum seeker policies, which include not resettling any person who arrives by boat and towing any boat that reaches Australian waters to an offshore detention centre.
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At first, Jean and Lamour thought they might be able to stay in the Dominican Republic, resettling somewhere far enough from Los Patos that they could avoid detection by the men who deported Jean.
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Abbott tried last November along with about 30 other Republican governors to block Syrian refugees from resettling, writing a letter to President Obama detailing concerns after a terrorist attack in Paris killed 130 people.
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His March order framing the reports, which are due in September, did not ask that they include the economic or diplomatic benefits of resettling refugees, which many experts say can be considerable over time.
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In an attempt to counterbalance that prospect, the Russian Ministry for the Development of the Far East is considering resettling in the region some two million migrants from neighboring Central Asian countries by 2030.
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It indefinitely ends the refugee program resettling Syrian refugees, suspends a broader refugee resettlement program and temporarily suspends the entry of people from seven mostly Muslim nations: Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
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He has written about a meeting that took place in Newtown in 1862, when residents denounced President Abraham Lincoln's proposal of possibly resettling freed slaves in other countries by affirming their strong American identity.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's immigration minister brought border security and immigration to the center of the 2016 election campaign, warning that resettling "illiterate and innumerate" refugees would strain the social safety network and take Australian jobs.
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The two countries' ruling parties, Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) and Hungary's Fidesz, both disdain liberalism, disregard the independence of the judiciary and reject the European Union's plans for resettling refugees from the Middle East.
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Trump's remarks included a wide-ranging attack on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, and he said money aimed at resettling Syrian refugees in the United States should instead be spent on tackling poverty in U.S. cities.
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Like governments across Central and Eastern Europe, Poland's has been opposed to resettling substantial numbers of refugees from Syria and other poor and war-torn nations, another point of stress in its relations with Brussels.
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They opened their meeting by endorsing a strongly worded letter to Mr. Trump that extended congratulations but also put him on notice that the church was committed to resettling refugees and keeping immigrant families intact.
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After resettling with the Cincinnati Reds this season, Gray finished the year seventh in the National League with a 2.87 E.R.A. (down from 4.90 the previous year) and ranked fourth in opponents' batting average (.197).
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Since resettling, he said, he has sought to rebuild his business, spending €600,000 on studies for a project to convert a disused power station outside Barcelona into a university, partly shaped like a glass pyramid.
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It also blocks refugees from resettling in the country for 120 days and those from Syria indefinitely, with the suggestion that the U.S. will favor admitting religious minorities seeking refuge when it reinstates the program.
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What Hughes and his colleagues discovered was a vastly different portrait of background gamma radiation than the ones painted by outdated studies—a finding that could revitalize islanders' hopes for one day resettling their deserted homeland.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Indiana Governor Mike Pence, the Republican nominee for U.S. vice president, lost another round in federal court on Monday in his bid to keep refugees fleeing Syria's civil war from resettling in his state.
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The ban would have prevented a total of 20,000 people in "precarious circumstances" in the seven countries targeted from resettling in the U.S. during the 120 days covered by the suspension, according to the United Nations.
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And in an interview on an online radio show, Green cited a Bible verse that he says calls on the government to "crush evil" to explain his opposition to transgender bathroom rights and resettling Syrian refugees.
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Moreover, rather than working to reduce its rolls by resettling refugees in other countries, the agency has focused on helping refugees where they are until a political end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be reached.
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Resettling those most vulnerable is part of a multilayered strategy that will help support the stability of front-line allies like Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, which continue to host the overwhelming majority of the world's refugees.
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The wealth of easy-to-find low-skilled jobs made Twin Falls attractive as a place for resettling refugees, and they began arriving in the 236s, at that time mostly from Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia.
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"As Mayor, I've witnessed the mutually beneficial impact of resettling almost 2,600 refugees in Fort Worth since 2016, I don't want to risk fixing anything that is not broken," Price wrote in a December 2 letter.
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A member of parliament for Australia's opposition center-left Labor party says Canada is the "obvious" choice for resettling refugees held in its offshore detention centers — and other government leaders and NGOs are supporting the idea.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Refugee advocates have welcomed an assessment by a senior U.S. official that the United States is on track to hit a target of resettling 265,000 Syrian refugees by the end of September.
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" The group pushes unnecessary anti-Sharia legislation, has tried to block Syrian refugees from resettling in the United States, and its founder has said that any practicing Muslim cannot be a "loyal citizen of the United States.
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The latest campaign to take in refugees was launched last year by residents who founded refugee support group Soft Landing Missoula and the International Rescue Committee, which had been in Missoula from 1979 to 1991 resettling Hmong.
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The Center for Immigration Studies has estimated that for the cost of permanently resettling one refugee in the U.S., the government could provide temporary shelter for 12 refugees in safe havens overseas, closer to their home countries.
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Many of the survivors grew angry and frustrated with what they saw as the slow response and uneven performance of the local government council in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in resettling and compensating them.
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Germany agreed to pay Israel for the cost of resettling survivors of the Holocaust, and for "material damage" caused by the Holocaust — such as the appropriation of Jewish property and any forced labor of concentration camp inmates.
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The organization is actively involved in resettling refugees, a hot button issue in Europe and the US as large populations of migrants, many of them Muslim, have fled from the war torn regions of Iraq and Syria.
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"There was some head-scratching about resettling refugees in town that are in rubble, without engaging in the reconstruction of buildings," Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Studies at the conservative Hudson Institute, told Fox News.
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While the cleanup is expected to take decades and has an estimated $72 billion price tag, authorities are confident enough the area surrounding the plant is now safe they began the process of resettling evacuees last year.[Bloomberg]
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A majority of recent new residents are resettling in the counties along the "I-4 corridor," named after a major highway stretching across a swath of Central Florida, which is known as a crucial swing region for elections.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, in the midst of a tight election campaign, came under fire on Thursday for backing his immigration minister over claims resettling "illiterate and innumerate" refugees would strain the social safety network.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton on Thursday rejected charges his country was dragging its feet in resettling refugees from Syria and Iraq, having resettled just 2000 in the same time it took Canada to process 21,2800.
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After almost 267 years of resettling refugees -- from Jews fleeing Russia and Eastern Europe in 26.9 to migrant caravans of numerous religious denominations around the world today -- the group has helped more than 21.33 million people escape persecution.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's radical nationalist Jobbik party told Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday he should resign if voters fail to turn out in sufficient numbers in a referendum next month to reject EU quotas for resettling refugees.
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In the east, the so-called Visegrad Group of nations -- Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic -- have formed a strong block against resettling refugees and increased migration, to the weak protests of Germany and France in the west.
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This resettling project is an effort to restore the iconic animal to the region and boost biodiversity, but despite protective efforts, around 300 sheep are killed each year from bear attacks, according to France's Office of Hunting and Wildlife.
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Turkey's offensive, called the Peace Spring Operation, is aimed at clearing Kurdish forces away from its border area and resettling 1457 million Syrian refugees currently hosted in Turkey into a 30 kilometer (18.6 mile) "safe zone" along the border.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria plans to use its presidency of the European Union this year to shift the bloc's focus away from resettling refugees within the EU and towards preventing further waves of arrivals, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Friday.
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White House to increase number of refugees to 110k in 2017 After resettling just under 1,900 Syrians in the initial years of the civil war, the US committed to admit 10,000 in FY2016 -- a goal it exceeded last month.
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Hungary to hold EU migrant quota referendum by October Hungary will hold a referendum in September or early October on whether to accept any future European Union quota system for resettling migrants, the prime minister's office said on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia proposes resettling millions of citizens from decrepit Soviet-era apartment blocks into modern high-rise flats, but concerns about quality, a lack of services and infrastructure could upset voters ahead of a presidential election in 2018.
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Trump in March ordered the U.S. State Department and other agencies to tally only the costs of resettling refugees but not the benefits that policy experts said refugees can also bring, including tax revenues, professional skills and job creation.
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It was five years ago that she made the same lonely journey - fleeing war in Iraq for sanctuary in Beirut then peace in Britain - thanks to an innovative community sponsorship scheme aimed at resettling refugees with minimal state involvement.
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Netanyahu's new political ally, the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, traces its lineage to Rabbi Meir Kahane's outlawed Kach Party, which advocated annexing the West Bank, expelling the Palestinians who lived there and resettling Israeli Arabs in Arab countries.
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And by justifying his invasion of northern Syria by speaking of "resettling" Syrian refugees there, he was also responding to the growing anti-refugee sentiment in Turkey, which contributed to his losing the Istanbul and Ankara elections in March.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey and the European Union could cooperate to end the flow of irregular migrants to Greek islands and start resettling Syrian refugees directly from Turkey to the EU under a draft agreement seen by Reuters on Monday.
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"At a time when the number of refugees is at the highest level in recorded history, the United States has abandoned world leadership in resettling vulnerable people in need of protection," said Eric Schwartz, the president of Refugees International.
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But Abbott, who in 2015 unsuccessfully sued to stop the Obama administration from resettling Syrian refugees in Texas, said in a letter Friday to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Texas has already done its part to aid migrants.
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She and her friends had poured themselves into resettling Mouhamad and Wissam al-Hajj, a former farmer and his wife, and their four children, becoming so close that they referred to one another as substitute grandparents, parents and children.
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The rest are expected to come from such nations as Congo, Central African Republic, Syria and others, according to the IRC, which has just reopened its office in Missoula, where it had worked from 1979 to 1991 resettling Hmong.
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David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, said the money will go toward funding programs that aid refugees in the process of resettling in the United States, as well international programs that help people in the greatest need.
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Days of protests included Christians who have worked or volunteered with Christian nonprofits who help acclimate refugees to the US. Trump says US will prioritize Christian refugees America's Christian community has a long history of resettling refugees in the United States.
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The IRC is calling on the EU to commit to resettling 540,000 refugees over the next five years, a demonstration that Europe can take on a leadership role in this global displacement crisis and share responsibility for refugees in need.
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The official version is that the camp was in use between January 2015 and October 2803, after which 6,400 migrants were removed in 170 buses, with the aim, according to Le Monde, of resettling them in different parts of France.
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Jen Smyers, a spokeswoman for Church World Service, an international humanitarian organization and one of the agencies resettling refugees in the United States, said meeting the 10,000 target would give Washington the "moral leadership" to ask other nations to do more.
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Lawyers for the Department of Justice had called the state's security concerns "speculative and uninformed" in court filings, and advocates said the Syrian refugees who have been resettling in Houston, Dallas and elsewhere in Texas do not pose a security risk.
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A top official at the State Department working on refugee admissions has reportedly been moved to a temporary assignment in what some fear is part of the Trump administration's plan to stifle the flow of refugees resettling in the United States.
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Reports that many of the attackers were of North African or Arab descent have stoked already high tensions about the influx of migrants and refugees resettling in Germany, which has agreed to accept more than 1 million asylum-seekers in 2015.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Resettling the First American 'Climate Refugees' " ("Carbon's Casualties" series, front page, May 3): It's the poorest who are on the front lines of our fight against climate change around the world, and Louisiana is no exception.
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Seeking a unifying thread for the children of the families it was resettling, the organizations arranged occasional volunteer-led pickup soccer games for the city's immigrant youth, focusing on the social elements of the sport, rather than the competitive ones.
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To a large extent, the inability to adopt specific, binding solutions is a result of the rampant xenophobia against migrants and refugees — particularly Muslims — which has made resettling large numbers of foreigners a political liability in much of the world.
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As an organization that has been active in resettling refugees for the last 80 years, LIRS urges Congress and the Department of State to truly show support for these populations and offer them a new home free from religious intolerance.
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There are common themes in many refugees' journeys: escaping conflict or devastation, migrating unbearably long distances, living in makeshift camps, seeking asylum in countries trying to keep them out, and eventually resettling in communities with completely new cultures and languages.
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The very same American religious denominations that do the hard work resettling refugees will turn around and accept a ban on refugees, not because they hate Syrians (though of course xenophobes do exist), but because they don't want violence here.
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In harsh language, a three-judge panel on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals accused the Republican vice presidential nominee of unfairly attacking Exodus Refugee Immigration for resettling the refugees, despite "no evidence" that the migrants might be terrorists in disguise.
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In the latest overture, Mr. Ghani said his government would provide the Taliban with an office in the capital, Kabul; passports for their members; help resettling militants' families; and assistance in scrubbing the names of top commanders from international terrorist blacklists.
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LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast has asked the World Bank for help in eliminating illegal cocoa output from protected forests and resettling people farming there, as it steps up efforts to both end deforestation and deter excess cocoa production.
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The paper said its sources believed Britain would want to ensure their safety by resettling them in one of the so-called "five eyes" countries, the intelligence-sharing partnership that also includes the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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Trump's order says the agencies were not working closely enough with local officials on resettling refugees and his administration acted to respect communities that believe they do not have the jobs or other resources to be able to take in refugees.
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"In addition to Texas undertaking more than its share in the task of resettling refugees than any other State, Texas has the sovereign authority and duty to protect the safety of its residents," the state had argued in its December filing.
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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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As 21625 fades into 2900, Turkish forces remain in northeastern Syria, where Kurdish forces have repeatedly accused them of cease-fire violations and where Turkey has proposed resettling Syrian refugees in a plan critics say is tantamount to ethnic cleansing.
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This includes executive orders signed by President Donald Trump and challenged in court temporarily banning most refugees and most citizens from some Muslim-majority countries from entering, an internal debate over the cost of resettling refugees and a crackdown on illegal immigration.
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"When I first started as a volunteer, I never imagined it would be controversial to try to help refugees," said Angie Plummer, the director of the Columbus-based resettlement organization CRISOhio who has been resettling refugees for the better part of two decades.
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White evangelical voters backed President Donald Trump by 80% in the presidential election, according to exit polling, but some members of the community involved in resettling refugees are speaking out against his executive order clamping down on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.
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In addition to working with the governments of both Pakistan and Afghanistan to help ensure that the refugees are cared for properly, the UN provides the refugees with $200 for initial travel and housing to help ease the process of resettling in Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has taken in 8,000 Syrian refugees since October and is on track to meet President Barack Obama's goal of resettling 10,000 by the end of the fiscal year, a U.S. State Department official told reporters on Friday.
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The U.S. should put an end to its policy of providing Arab countries a carte blanch for not resettling the refugees for nearly seventy years, and cease financially underwriting this behavior through the American decades-long support of a special UN agency (UNRWA).
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Known for working on paintings for years, I do not think that he felt he had that luxury after turning sixty-five, which coincided with his being grief-stricken and resettling in Los Angeles, where he had first met Fisher in 24.
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The two web pages, one titled "Myths and Facts on Refugees, Migration, and Humanitarian Assistance," and the other "Myths and Facts: Resettling Syrian Refugees," had been removed as of Friday, though the exact timing of when they were taken down is unclear.
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Nonetheless, UNRWA's mandate directs it to worsen this tension by preserving the Palestinians' refugee status, rather than resettling them in neighboring countries – the preferred approach of the U.N.'s primary refugee agency, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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He's telling voters over and over that Muslim immigrants are too dangerous to let into the United States and vowed to abandon a commitment to resettling refugees that began after Americans were ashamed they'd done so little to save victims of the Holocaust.
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These include two Trump executive orders, both challenged in court, temporarily banning most refugees from entering as well as most visits by citizens of six Muslim-majority nations; an internal debate over the cost of resettling refugees; and a crackdown on illegal immigration.
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Turks feel they have to go it alone to maintain their territorial integrity and security, so if the demands aren't complemented with assistance in resettling the Syrian refugees — not in Turkey — or paying the cost of their support, Turkish attitudes will harden.
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The expansion of the restrictions, which already affected more than 135 million people in seven countries, is likely to hinder more than 12,300 potential immigrants in the next year from resettling, finding work or reuniting with their families in the United States.
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The migration budget for next year would total 5.2 billion euros, with funds to be spent on reinforcing external borders, resettling asylum seekers and integrating migrants, while another 2.2 billion euros would be for action outside the EU to address the causes of refugee flows.
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If your company is giving you two days to make up your mind about resettling in a new land, head instantly for the nearest expat bar — you can find it through the local English-language newspaper or digital equivalent — and interrogate the people sitting there.
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The administration is on track to meet President Obama's goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees seeking temporary protective status in the U.S. Despite Republican concerns that the vetting process is not reliable, Nadia Aziz of the Arab-American Institute said the U.S. rigorously scrutinizes refugees.
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Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant): After resettling from Montana to Deadwood to start a simple, new life, Seth found himself sucked into the growing town's various power struggles, becoming its sheriff and the co-owner of a hardware store with his buddy Sol Star (John Hawkes).
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When the European Union decided in the summer of 2015 to help Italy and Greece cope with a huge wave of migration by resettling 120,000 people in other European countries, Hungary and Slovakia took the decision to the Court of Justice of the European Union.
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After resettling in San Diego, California, he grew up as an average refugee teenager, never thinking he'd return to the country his family had once left behind—until a stop in Vietnam during a collegiate semester at sea planted a seed in his mind.
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"I can look at their faces and say, 'Look, you can't come here,'" Trump said after 30 year-old Darren Ornitz of Greenwich, Connecticut, asked the billionaire businessman -- who owns a home there -- whether he would be willing to personally bar Syrian children from resettling there.
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"As active duty soldier defectors have up-to-date information, the intelligence agencies would question the soldiers and see if anything needs to be addressed in our military's operation and combat plans," a current South Korean government official involved in resettling North Korean refugees told Reuters.
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A new policy, instituted in March of this year, prohibits their shelters from taking "any action that facilitates" abortion access for unaccompanied minors without express approval from recently appointed ORR director Scott Lloyd, a prominent and very zealous Catholic attorney with absolutely no experience resettling refugees.
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At an April meeting with top officials from the bureau in the West Wing's Roosevelt Room, Mr. Miller cited statistics from the restrictionist Center for Immigration Studies that indicated that resettling refugees in the United States was far costlier than helping them in their own region.
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And in a way that would be uncharacteristic of someone who needed Washington's support to become the next Secretary General, he stood before US government officials at a US government institution and sharply criticized the Obama administration for its (then) paltry commitment to resettling Syrian refugees.
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Thanks to our wonderful co-sponsor... Canopy NWA's outreach coordinator Lauren Snodgrass tells of how the group started organically in 2015, when a bunch of local conversations about the global refugee crisis metastasized into a plan to actually build an agency and start resettling refugees themselves.
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Since then, the Trump administration has been able to implement a 90-day ban on anyone entering from Iran, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Somalia or Yemen, and a 120-day ban on any refugee resettling in the US, who doesn't have a "bona fide relationship" to the United States.
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The commission proposed a common procedure for resettling refugees from camps in countries outside the bloc, like Turkey, that would give member states the option of joining together to decide the overall number of people to take in and how to spread out the refugees among those nations.
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The refugee agency HIAS (formerly the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), which has long taken the lead in resettling Lautenberg Amendment beneficiaries in the US, argues that this means the Lautenberg program in the former Soviet Union doesn't actually count toward the US's contribution to the global refugee crisis.
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The job of resettling new Americans falls on designated nonprofit agencies like the International Rescue Committee, which the State Department pays $2,125 per refugee to cover resettlement expenses, like a security deposit for an apartment and a few days of food in the refrigerator, as well as administrative costs.
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The plan's fiercest advocate has been the mayor of Rutland, Christopher Louras, who has cited not the moral argument for resettling refugees, but an economic one: This shrinking city, long removed from its heyday as a marble producer and regional railroad hub, needs every new resident it can get.
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Reuters said the interviews are a critical step in the often years-long process of resettling people in the U.S. Two sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed the agency's move to Reuters, with one adding that the DHS told those involved in refugee admissions about the decision Wednesday.
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Three House Democrats are calling on Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryTrump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button #FreeAustinTice trending on anniversary of kidnapping in Syria MORE to meet the administration's stated goal of resettling 22019,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. before October.
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One limitation of the Berkeley bot is that it can't change its plans once it begins moving to pick up an object, and therefore can't react to its environment — like items resettling in a jostled bin — says Jonas Schneider, head robotics engineer at OpenAI, who was not involved in this research.
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Ray, who served five consecutive terms as governor from 1969 to 1983, gained notice for resettling thousands of refugees from the Vietnam War in Iowa, and for serving as a leader during a time of enormous social upheaval in the U.S. "It was saving the lives of refugees," Ray said.
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Ms. Merkel had hoped to use the meetings in Brussels to make progress in persuading other European leaders that Turkey, which is not a member of the bloc, is ready to play a bigger role in processing and resettling refugees streaming over its border from Syria before the refugees set out for Europe.
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In 2017, while searching for ways to illustrate the cost of resettling refugees, Mr. Miller urged State Department officials to embrace data from the think tank that showed it was 12 times more costly to bring a refugee to the United States than to help that same person in their own region.
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Last month, when President Obama announced a goal of resettling 43,24 refugees in 21 — an increase from this year's ceiling of 22005,000 but a level that has been exceeded nine times since 1975 — it led to an outcry from Republicans, who immediately objected to the prospect of more Syrians entering the country.
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What Edward, the writer on the piece, and I found was eye-opening: stories of people having to change their livelihoods, of farmers trying to supplement lost incomes by catering more to tourists, of families resettling and sending their children to cities in hopes that they would succeed in a new industry.
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In the plans under discussion, the volunteer rescue workers, who are officially named the Syrian Civil Defense, would be resettled in several countries; two diplomatic sources mentioned the possibility of resettling some of the group in Canada and the United Kingdom, while another two sources said Germany is expected to take some rescuers.
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UJA-Federation of New York was founded in 1917, and for 100 years has responded during major events: helping to settle immigrants, rebuilding Jewish life after the Holocaust, supporting Israel, rescuing and resettling Soviet Jews and helping New York City recover after both Hurricane Sandy and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
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Since World War II, the United States has been the world's leader in resettling refugees; half of all refugees who are permanently resettled in a third country (somewhere that isn't the refugee's country of origin or the place she initially flees to) resettle in the US. The Trump administration has ended that era.
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Its acceptance of 20 men over the past 13 months has significantly aided the Obama administration's goal of repatriating or resettling all the men who have been recommended for transfer, most of whom have been languishing with that status since at least 2009 when a six-agency task force unanimously approved letting them go.
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In the face of growing global need however, the IRC projects that the Trump administration will miss its own refugee resettlement target of 45,000 for the 2018 fiscal year, resettling just less than 22,000 refugees - far below the historical average of 95,20183 - further endangering the prospects of safety for the world's most vulnerable people.
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The act established protocols for vetting and resettling refugees and assured asylum seekers that they would not be treated as criminals, even if they arrived unauthorized in the U.S. The act, which had bipartisan support, was also meant to bolster relationships with allies and to provide a humanitarian model of resettlement for the rest of the world.
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Though the Roosevelt administration had entreated Americans to treat the returning Japanese-Americans as their fellow citizens ("if you find one or two Japanese-American families settled in your neighborhood ... try to regard them as individuals," wrote the first lady in Collier's in 1943), they were barred from resettling on the West Coast until January 1945.
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Schools in the district were expected to make several trips to the U.S. this year, including to Detroit and Washington, D.C. Trump's executive order temporarily barred people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia from entering the U.S. It also temporarily suspends the country's refugee resettlement program and indefinitely suspends resettling refugees from Syria.
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With the Syrian civil war continuing to rage, House Democrats are calling on Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryTrump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button #FreeAustinTice trending on anniversary of kidnapping in Syria MORE to meet the administration's stated goal of resettling 10,21625 Syrian refugees in the U.S. before October. Reps.
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The Trump administration has slammed the brakes on bringing refugees to the US. At the end of its first full fiscal year, new government data shows, the administration is falling way short of the expectations it set for resettling refugees — which were, themselves, way lower than the levels set by President Barack Obama and his predecessors.
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In an email interview with Mr. Ai, who replied from Berlin, he recalled that when he arrived in Berlin in 20173, he saw many refugees and decided to make a short trip to Lesbos to meet some of the men, women and children who were making the perilous Mediterranean crossing in the hopes of resettling in continental Europe.
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Phil Scott (R) reaffirmed his commitment to resettling new refugees after President TrumpDonald John TrumpDem lawmaker says Nunes threatened to sue him over criticism Parnas: U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed to clear path for investigations into Bidens Five takeaways from Parnas's Maddow interview MORE signed an executive order allowing governors to opt out of doing so.
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President Donald Trump on Friday signed off on the historically low refugee cap of 18,000, thereby allowing refugees to begin resettling in the US. The presidential determination, as it's called, came weeks after it was anticipated, putting flights on hold as a result and leaving hundreds of refugees who had been approved to come to the US in limbo.
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While Kasich and Cruz have both called for stops on resettling Syrian refugees in the U.S., neither have gone as far as Republican front-runner Trump who has called for banning all foreign Muslims from entering the U.S. Cruz has said he disagrees with Trump's proposal, but also said he "understands" why the real estate mogul called for the ban.
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"We had so much pressure to bring Syrians, that we hadn't done enough for that crisis," said Anne C. Richard, the assistant secretary of state for population, migration and refugees, who said she had initially questioned whether the target of accepting 10,000 Syrians — part of an overall goal of resettling 85,000 refugees in the United States this year — was feasible.
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Military and foreign policy officials pressed for resettling more refugees as a national security and moral imperative, while other top officials, led by Stephen Miller, his top policy adviser, and backed by John F. Kelly, his chief of staff and former secretary of homeland security, advocated slashing the number to as low as 15,000 based on concerns about cost and safety.
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No one is expecting him to be able to cite chapter and verse on, say, the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act that allowed President Trump to order on Friday that all immigrants and visa holders from seven majority-Muslim countries be banned from entering the US for 90 days and nearly all refugees be banned from resettling here for four months.
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In 2006, Joseph Kim defected from North Korea to China, where he connected with Liberty in North Korea, a non-governmental organization dedicated to resettling North Korean refugees to South Korea and the US. Kim's father died from starvation when he was 12-years-old, according to the George W. Bush Presidential Center, where Kim now works as an assistant for the Human Freedom Initiative.
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" The study does not factor in taxes paid by refugees or note that refugees must pay back the cost of their transportation to the U.S. It appears that Trump cited the Center for Immigration Studies analysis in his speech to the U.N. when he said that "for the cost of resettling one refugee in the United States, we can assist more than 10 in their home region.
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" Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward CruzTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE, who reiterated his call to ban Syrian refugees from resettling in the country, faced backlash from Democrats for saying that law enforcement should be permitted to "patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.
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A column last month in the Lebanese daily Al-Nahar, titled "Hizbullah Resettling in Syria," by Ahmad 'Ayyash detailed exactly how Iran, with the help of Hezbollah, has engaged in ethnic cleansing in Syria: "The aim … is changing the demography" of Syria by settling Iranian-backed Shiite militiamen "from Afghanistan, Lebanon and other countries in the region … to fill the demographic vacuum" left by the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have fled their civil war.
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Qamishli Ras al-Ain Tel Abyad Hasaka M4 Manbij KURDISH and Gov't Control Gov't Control SYRIA 10 MILES Turkish army AND syrian opposition Turkey M4 Manbij Aleppo KURDISH and gov't Control Raqqa Other opposition Latakia Deir al-Zour Hama Government Control Homs Palmyra Abu Kamal Syria Damascus Iraq Dara'a Sweida 20 MILES Jordan Sources: Control areas via Conflict Monitor by IHS Markit | By Allison McCann, Sarah Almukhtar, Anjali Singhvi and Jin Wu Beyond pushing the Kurdish fighters away from the border, Mr. Erdogan envisions the Turkish and Russian-patrolled "safe zone" as a destination for resettling 3.6 million Syrian refugees.
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Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim KaineTimothy (Tim) Michael KaineWarren's pledge to avoid first nuclear strike sparks intense pushback Almost three-quarters say minimum age to buy tobacco should be 21: Gallup Overnight Defense: Dems talk Afghanistan, nukes at Detroit debate | Senate panel advances Hyten nomination | Iranian foreign minister hit with sanctions | Senate confirms UN ambassador MORE went after his Republican opponent, Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceFEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud Five years after Yazidi genocide, US warns ISIS is rebounding Log Cabin Republicans endorse Trump MORE, on Tuesday for attempting to block Syrian refugees from resettling in his state.
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