refugees

“Why should you go back when you have everything here”, asks Europe’s most famous Syrian migrant in the wake of the fall of Assad.

Governments across Europe are stopping Syrian refugee applications, but whether a fresh migrant wave or repatriation now follows is unclear. 

A recent study showed that roughly 50 percent of Syrian refugees in Canada have still been receiving government assistance five years after entering the country.

Hundreds of Haitians packed their belongings and fled from previously secure districts of Port-au-Prince on Thursday as a running battle broke out between gangsters and police.

A German court has heard a DNA test after a 12-year-old girl had an abortion, allegedly revealing her own father had impregnated her. 

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Monday said a record 123 million people have been displaced from their homes around the world – a number that has more than doubled over the past decade.

The Biden-Harris administration is scrambling to look useful in Sudan, where conditions deteriorated so much in the past week that Doctors Without Borders had to abandon a disease-riddled and famine-ravaged refugee camp because it could no longer operate safely.

President Joe Biden’s deputies have allocated roughly $750 million to settle diverse migrants into North Carolina communities since 2021. 

The Biden administration has set the refugee resettlement target at 125,000 for fiscal year 2025, a slight upswing from 2024’s 100,000.

Former student volunteer at Migrant Crisis refugee centre relates how the reality on the ground was carefully stage managed for the cameras.

King Abdullah II of Jordan rejected at the U.N. the possibility of Jordan taking in Palestinians fleeing war.

Almost 500 elected officials are urging President Joe Biden to admit some 2.5 million migrants to the U.S. as refugees to fill American jobs.

Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Burkina Faso, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), claimed on Thursday it was targeting militias allied with the ruling junta, not civilians, when it launched an attack that killed almost 300 people last weekend.

Israelis wonder how much longer the internal exile can continue, as tens of thousands of refugees languish in hotels across the country.

A poll of 52 nations shows that overwhelming majorities of citizens recognize that most “refugees” are actually determined economic migrants seeking jobs and government funds, not helpless victims of war or disaster.

The U.N. reported that more than 532,000 people departed Afghanistan since April, while more than 858,000 entered it.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) decried the fact that recent immigrants can often get more in federal payouts than Social Security recipients.

In preparation for World Refugee Day, Pope Francis declared Wednesday that all of us are “required” to welcome anyone who knocks on our door.

Egypt on Wednesday rejected a plan that the Israeli government presented to reopen the Rafah border crossing.

British lawmakers have called on the government to open up a bespoke visa programme for Palestinians to come into the UK.

Christian tribes in northern India’s restless state of Manipur say the Hindu nationalist government is trying to deport them to Myanmar.

President Joe Biden’s border chief says the White House’s border plan “is working.”

President Joe Biden’s deputies are converting Congress’ refugee program for vulnerable populations into another pipeline for poor foreigners to get into Americans’ neighborhoods and workplaces.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday that Israel’s proposed “full-scale invasion on Rafah” would be a “humanitarian catastrophe.”

The White House has reportedly been considering whether or not to accept Palestinians from Gaza as refugees amid Israel’s war with Hamas. 

Armenian organizations were outraged by President Joe Biden’s Armenian Remembrance Day statement on Wednesday because he did not mention modern genocide against Armenian Christians of the Nagorno-Karabakh region completed this year by the conquering armies of Muslim Azerbaijan.

President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief is opening new processing centers for Muslim migrants from the Arab world, just after Congress granted $3.5 billion more for migration within the $95 billion aid package for Ukraine and Israel.

Tens of thousands of Israelis remain refugees in their own country after attacks by Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terrorist army, forced the evacuation of communities near the northern border in October.

The Indian government announced plans to implement a controversial 2019 law that fast-tracks citizenship for non-Muslim refugees.

President Joe Biden’s staffers are asking Congress for more than $13 billion in taxpayer funds to help move many more economic migrants into homes and workplaces in American communities.

Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadis are once more accused of kidnapping dozens of women from a refugee camp in northeastern Nigeria.

The federal government won an 8.7 percent profit of $37.5 billion from the resident population of 2.9 million refugees and asylum seekers in the 15 years before 2020, says a celebratory report by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Satellite images taken by the firm Maxar Technologies and shared with several American news agencies on Thursday and Friday appear to show the construction of a new wall near the border between Egypt and Rafah, Gaza, as Israel prepares to attack Hamas terrorists in that city.

The government of the Central African Republic (CAR) reported on Monday that some 10,000 children remain under the control of militant groups, who use them as soldiers, spies, servants, and sex slaves.

Berlin warned that if Ukraine loses the war with Russia, a mass exodus of migrants of up to ten million migrants will flee the country.

A bill from Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) would give green cards to Afghan nationals brought hastily to the United States by President Joe Biden — providing them a route to naturalized American citizenship.