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New US Citizen Refugees Excited for First Presidential Vote
Tens of thousands of refugees fleeing wars and persecution who were welcomed into the U.S. are now American citizens voting the first time in what could be the most consequential presidential election of their lifetimes
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New Fire Breaks Out in Crowded Refugee Camp on Greek Island
Fire has again struck Greece’s notoriously overcrowded refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, a day after a blaze swept through the camp and left thousands in need of emergency shelter
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Refugees, Aid Groups Condemn UN Decision to Limit Syrian Aid Crossings
The United Nations Security Council on Saturday adopted a resolution that leaves only one of two border crossings open for aid deliveries from Turkey into Syria, NBC News reports. “The veto is against us,” Mustafa Alkaser told NBC News from a refugee camp in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. “It’s against the refugees, against the free Syrians who once stood up...
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How Covid-19 has Impacted the Global Refugee Crisis
Edafe Okporo, director of the RDJ Refugee Shelter, speaks out on how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted an already troubling global crisis among refugees.
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Virus Could Cause ‘Carnage' Among World's Refugees, Aid Groups Say
The coronavirus outbreak threatens to inflict “carnage” on refugees around the world who often live in cramped conditions, lack access to clean water and are in countries with failing or stretched medical systems, humanitarian aid groups say.
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Cambodian Refugee Deported 2 Years Ago Returns to US
A Cambodian refugee who says he was wrongly deported nearly two years ago was reunited with his family in Massachusetts on Wednesday, becoming the fourth such refugee — and first on the East Coast — to be allowed back into the country since the Trump administration stepped up deportations of Southeast Asians.
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Judge Halts Trump's Order Allowing States to Block Refugees
A federal judge on Wednesday halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that gave state and local officials the ability to shut the door on refugees, and ignited a fierce debate in communities about how welcoming the United States should be....
...U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte in Maryland said in his ruling that the president’s order “flies in the face of clear...
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Texas Governor to Reject New Refugees, First Under Trump
Texas will no longer accept the resettlement of new refugees, becoming the first state known to do so under a recent Trump administration order, Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday. Abbott’s announcement could have major implications for refugees coming to the United States. Texas has large refugee populations in several of its cities and has long been a leader in...
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GOP Governors Grapple With Refugee Question
An executive order by President Donald Trump giving states the right to refuse to take refugees is putting Republican governors in an uncomfortable position. They’re caught between immigration hardliners who want to shut the door and some Christian evangelicals who believe helping refugees is a moral obligation. Others say refugees are vital to fill jobs and keep rural communities...
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North Dakota County May Become US's 1st to Bar New Refugees
Reuben Panchol was forced to leave war-torn Sudan decades ago as a child, embarking on an odyssey that eventually brought him to the American Midwest and left him eternally grateful to the country that took him in. “I am an American citizen, a North Dakotan,” said Panchol, a 38-year-old father of four. “And without North Dakota, I couldn’t have...
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Mexico Appears Willing But Unready to Hold US Refugees
Mexico’s willingness to accept U.S. asylum seekers while their applications are processed appears to be yet another sign of the blooming honeymoon between leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and President Donald Trump, though it is also causing concern among officials in Mexican border cities already struggling to deal with thousands of Central American migrants.
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Starbucks Hiring Refugees in El Cajon
NBC 7’s Danielle Radin shows you a hiring event in El Cajon that Starbucks put on Tuesday. The company says it hopes to hiring 10,000 refugees globally by 2022.
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Starbucks to Hold Career Fair for San Diego Refugees
Starbucks will hold a career fair for San Diego refugees on Tuesday.
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Refugees Bring Free Solar Panels to Low-Income Family
A group of Syrian refugees brings free solar panels to a low-income family in San Diego. They are helping a local man struggling to care for his wife who has Alzheimers’ disease. NBC 7’s Gaby Rodriguez has more.
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Syrian Refugees Help Install Free Solar Panels for Low-Income Family
In Oak Park, Syrian refugees volunteered with GRID Alternatives to give back to the community and learn new skills.
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Fact Check: Refugees and Terrorism Investigations
President Donald Trump’s new executive order on foreign nationals entering the U.S. says “more than 300″ refugees in the United States “are currently the subjects of counterterrorism investigations.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeated that figure in his remarks on the new order. But it is a statistic without any context. The White House and Department of Justice have declined to...
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Angelina Jolie Takes on Travel Ban in New York Times Op-Ed
Angelina Jolie said that discriminating against refugees for their religion or country of origin “invites the very instability we seek to protect ourselves against.”
She also says in a New York Times editorial Thursday that the U.S. decision to suspend refugee resettlements and visits from several Muslim-majority countries isn’t the American way. -
Lakers Luol Deng Shares Message of Hope For Refugees
Following Tuesday night’s Lakers’ win, forward Luol Deng spoke about his experiences as a refugee in the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order restricting refugees from entering the United States
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UNICEF Says 50 Million Children Uprooted by Global Conflict
Some 50 million children around the globe have been “uprooted,” forcibly displaced from their homes or migrated to another country in search of a better life, UNICEF said in a report. The report released Wednesday found that while children make up about a third of the world’s population as of 2015, they accounted for nearly half of all refugees, with...
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Ricky Martin Visits Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
The singer met with Syrian children in Zahleh, in the Bekaa Valley on Wednesday, and in the Minnieh informal settlement, near the northern city of Tripoli, the following day.