Refugees

The U.S.-Canada border policy amid the pandemic has forced hundreds of asylum-seekers back into U.S. custody to potentially face deportation, the lawsuit says.

Kenya's announcement to close the camps came after Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta met with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi to discuss the management of refugees within the camps.

It is interesting that amid such heavy use of authoritarian tech, violation of privacy and 24 hour monitoring, some people prefer to fall for conspiracy theories about microchips in vaccines.

The cases still exist in the Migrant Protection Protocols program, although President Joe Biden announced he would dismantle MPP on his first day in office.

"Biden promised to welcome immigrants, and people voted for him based on that promise," Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

A regional approach to those fleeing Venezuela would address the need for safety and security well before they reach the U.S. border. There is no quick fix.

Violations of religious freedom against Turkey's Christians are increasingly rampant.

The El Chaparral migrant tent city in Tijuana is less than half a mile from the U.S. border. It hosts more than 2,000 migrants who are trying to enter the United States legally through the asylum process. About 500 are children.

Colombia's action of legalizing Venezuelan refugees, especially during these challenging times, is innovative, pragmatic and inspiring.

"And this has caused Central American migrants, and also from our country, wanting to cross the border thinking that it is easier to do so," Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday.

President Joe Biden's promise to renew American leadership on refugee protection is a beacon of hope for those with few places left to turn.

Generous resettlement provisions save lives in the short run.

I have been technically stateless for my whole life. From the age of 10 or 11, I felt this intense need for a passport. I wanted freedom, identity and a sense of belonging to a country.

The challenge of educating during a national crisis has long plagued contexts of war and displacement.

"Not much has been left standing," MSF Head of Mission in Greece Stephan Oberreit told Newsweek.

The woman was being airlifted from Lampedusa to a hospital in Sicily only an hour away, but gave birth while airborne.

"Given that [Pham's] already worked for ICE within this administration, and this administration has aggressively ramped up targeting of Southeast Asian refugee communities, we don't feel optimistic that there will be a change in how ICE is run," Phi Nguyen said.

Trump's speech at the White House naturalization ceremony made it sound like his administration should doing its utmost to welcome refugees to America. But no president has ever curtailed refugee admissions like Trump.

Around 1 percent of the world's population is forcibly displaced so what impact did the photo of Alan Kurdi that "shook the world" really have?

"Right now, everyone in Lebanon is afraid of shortages," said UNRWA spokesperson Huda Samra.

"The only solution is martial law on the border, putting the United States Army in charge of it," retired Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor said in 2019.

"We know how it feels to be scared and hungry with no place to go," a Palestinian refugee told Newsweek.

People who do not agree with refugees may not realize that refugees are vulnerable, they are being forced to leave. Imagine living in a house, living normally and somebody comes in and says, "you need to leave within 24 hours".

After Ankara suggested it would not prevent migrants and refugees from leaving Turkey, thousands of refugees have headed toward the border with Greece.

The Trump administration is upending America's commitment to refugees. Such policies go to the heart of the nation's identity, what it represents and how it should live out its founding creed.

"These will not be legal tender in our household," said King's College London Prof. Jonathan Grant about the Brexit coin.

Arizona Republican State Representative Jay Lawrence told an audience at a political event that he did not believe in allowing refugees to settle in Arizona, despite voting for a pro-refugee resolution last year. "I just think it's best for the state of Arizona," Lawrence said.

"I think the message is that they don't like unaccompanied child refugees joining their families in Britain," said Alf Dubs, a Labour member of the Lords who fought for the child refugee protections in 2016.

It is still unclear what caused the fire to break out at the Kara Tepe refugee camp.

"We don't see how converting the centers into prisons represents a solution," said MSF spokesperson Tommaso Santo.