Refugees

Social media users accuse the Texas governor of confusing the country of South Africa with the continent of South America.

A federal judge ruled Omar Abdulsattar Ameen is eligible for deportation to Iraq or Turkey after lying about having contact with anyone from terrorist groups.

The nation's airlines and U.S. citizens work together to donate credit card points to provide flights for Afghan refugees.

The program marks a major shift in U.S. refugee policy and will serve as an addition to typical resettlement processes overseen by national agencies.

Regardless of the status of a petition filed to leave the area, the group will leave the Guatemala border city of Tapachula at 6 a.m.

The report, ordered by President Biden, outlines a range of recommendations for the government to consider to address the climate refugee issue.

The new emerging caravan consists of tens of thousands of Haitian and Central American migrants and is being labeled the "Caravana Madre" or Mother Caravan.

"The admission of up to 125,000 refugees to the U.S. during Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 is justified by humanitarian concerns," President Biden said in a statement.

But the tally does not include the tens of thousands of Afghans brought to the United States when American troops withdrew from Afghanistan.

Just 9 percent of Americans say they are opposed to such measures, according to the survey.

Special Envoy for Haiti Daniel Foote said he did not want to be "associated" with the government's response to Haitian refugees and illegal immigration.

U.S. officials are planning to remove many of the 12,000 migrants grouped around a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, where they crossed from Cuidad Acuña, Mexico.

"The ESL teachers are highly visible targets…many of them having received death threats," said a U.S. academic trying to help them.

"They should go to countries that are friendly to them and us," Jim Lamon said. "We cannot continue to be the world's refugee camp."

Chapters of the far-right group have distanced themselves from those who posted extremist content around a University campus.

The mock hunting permit calling for the murder of refugees was one of around a dozen extremist materials found on the university grounds.

The Afghan refugees are undergoing medical and security screening before beginning their new lives in the U.S.

"We've made clear to all parties, we've made clear to the Taliban, that these charters need to be able to depart," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

President Joe Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan encouraged a stampede approach to filling evacuation planes, instead of prioritizing Americans and green-card holders.

Carlson has accused Democrats of welcoming refugees into America to change the outcome of future elections.

Ohio Senate candidate Josh Mandel called the retired lieutenant colonel a "liar and traitor."

Amnesty International said in a letter that the EU should not "shift the responsibility for the protection of refugees to third countries."

Many Afghans are desperately trying to flee their homeland after the Taliban quickly took control of Afghanistan earlier this month.

"Just like you and I, they had used the summer to go back to see their relatives," said David Miyashiro, superintendent of the students' school district.

Groups supporting the refugees described a chaotic and minimal U.S. evacuation operation.

Refugee resettlement agencies were told to prepare to accept as many as 50,000 Afghans arriving in the country without visas.

If the United States can walk away so easily, the least it can do is open up legitimate, expedited pathways for innocent Afghan civilians to leave their country.

"Where the Afghans are housed is a living hell. Trash, urine, fecal matter, spilled liquids and vomit cover the floors," said a leaked email obtained from the U.S. Central Command.

Afghans who aided the U.S. during the war and others at risk of persecution are desperately trying to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban's swift takeover this month.

Millions have become refugees or been displaced in their own countries since the U.S. declared a global war on terror after the September 11, 2001 attacks.