Adding to the controversies over both congressional and presidential impotence was the question about the looming financial default of New York City. For eight months, the nation's most populous city, paying the price for attempting to cope with overwhelming economic and social forces, without budget...
Discover Where Refugees Are Coming to New York For the last three decades, theDRChas been struggling with a vast humanitarian crisis that has left millions of people displaced, both internally and externally, with many people fleeing to neighboring countries.Syriahas seen nearly 7 million refugees ...
Surging migrant flows are clearly a federal responsibility. Yet, given the political stalemate in Washington on immigration, responsibility for addressing New York’s migrant crisis falls mainly to the state, not local, government. The city has indeed responded to the influx of migrants, ...
Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven majority Muslim countries and suspending refugee programs sparked spontaneous protests at the nation’s major airports that attracted not just angry students and leftists, but elected officials and business leaders. Both of New York’s US senators, ...
In this social semiotic analysis, we examined visuals of Rohingya refugees in two U.S. newspapers: The New York Times and The Washington Post. We identified prominent tropes and themes exemplifying those tropes. Visuals connoted refugee vulnerability and subscribed to gender ste...
Upstate New York Prison Break Two highly dangerous convicted murders make a daring escape from a maximum-security New York state prison and lead police on a multi-state chase that lasts weeks, only to end with one fatally shot and the other surrendering. No, this isn't the plot of the ne...
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With such intensity, the“New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants”was adopted unanimously on September 26, 2016 in line with a new refugee regime, containing a wide range of commitments by member states, in order to strengthen and enhance mechanisms that will ensure adequate protection to...
He was asked on MSNBC's "Morning Joe'' what he would do as president about the Syrian city at the center of the refugee crisis. In a response that quickly went viral, Johnson replied, "And what is Aleppo?'' When questioner Mike Barnicle said "You're kidding me," Johnson said no, ...
I'm more dovish when it comes to foreign policy. Overall, I believe America needs to be a humanitarian leader when it comes to foreign policy, and we need to focus our resources more on dealing with issues of climate change and the immigration crisis and the refugee crisis that's happening...