Griffin Paul Jackson A maximum of 30,000 refugees will be allowed to resettle in the United States next fiscal year. The new ceiling imposed by the Trump administration marks a dramatic decrease from this fiscal year’s 45,000-person cap, which had also been a significant reduction. For three Continue Reading
For the first time, U.S. resettles fewer refugees than the rest of the world
BY PHILLIP CONNOR AND JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD The number of refugees resettled in the United States decreased more than in any other country in 2017, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of new data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This represents the first time Continue Reading
In the Army and the Klan, he hated Muslims. Now one was coming to Chris Buckley’s home.
By Steve Hendrix Chris Buckley walks out to his porch, where the doormat once greeted customers at a Subway, and looks up and down the empty street. “I admit it, I’m nervous,” he says, lighting a cigarette with heavily tattooed hands. His densely colored arms — and much of his body — are a Continue Reading
Canada Struggles as It Opens Its Arms to Victims of ISIS
By Catherine Porter CALGARY, Alberta — As leader of one of Canada’s largest refugee agencies, Fariborz Birjandian, a refugee himself, has years of experience welcoming the world’s most vulnerable — Kosovar Albanians fleeing ethnic cleansing, Burmese Karens evicted from Thai refugee camps and Continue Reading
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