Iwas shocked by President Trump’sexecutive orderthat severely restricts immigration from seven largely Muslim countries and indefinitely bars all Syrian refugees from coming to the United States. I am particularly pained by the latter because I am a Syrian refugee who found support and peace in the...
Syrian Refugees Flock To Latin America As World Ponders Taking Action Against Assaddoi:urn:uuid:5a7d27bd4afe0410VgnVCM100000d7c1a8c0RCRDScores have fled across the Atlantic, where Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela have sizeable Syrian populations....
Ted Cruzsaid, "President Obama and Hillary Clinton's proposal to bring tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees to America I think is absolute lunacy," during an event in Charleston Monday. "Who in their right mind would want to bring over tens of thousands of Syrian refugees when we ca...
PHOENIX-A hotel in downtown Phoenix has hired more than 40 refugees from Afghanistan and Syria, giving them a place to work as they transition to their new lives in the United States. Over the past several months, the Sheraton has been hiring refugees, including Ma...
Many Syrians came to Germany in 2015, when the country opened its borders to hundreds of thousands of refugees. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wants to allow earthquake victims entry to Germany "with regular visas that are swiftly issued and valid for three months", she...
BEIRUT, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi vowed on Monday to deport more Syrian refugees back to their homeland. The minister said the General Security has so far deported approximately 29,000 Syrians, focusing on those with illegal papers and no security impediments...
Ramadan is also an LGBTQ activist and regularly volunteers with the Vancouver-based Rainbow Refugee organization, which supports people seeking to resettle in Canada. While the writer mainly focuses his efforts on helping gay Syrian refugees, Rainbow Refugee works with citizens from dozens of countries...
According to a recent poll, more than half of Americans say they don’t want to allow Syrian refugees into the United States because they believe they pose a security risk. CCTV America’s Roee Ruttenberg reports from Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia
refugees to gain entry in the country. The five men were part of a larger contingent—some of whom are college students—who may have obtained some of the phony IDs in Brazil. According to officials in Honduras, the men were traveling by foot, by bus and by car northward, hoping to ...
Yasmin is in a tent camp for refugees with her four young children, in an Athens port area under an overpass. They’re relatively new arrivals, if already eager to move on. When that will happen is anyone’s guess, as her husband does not yet have the papers to initiate a family-...