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Protesters gathered at the Capital to demand that the United States admit 95,000 refugees into the United States in Fiscal Year 2020.

Kurdish news service Rudaw on Wednesday reported over a thousand refugees have thus far fled the region of Syria under attack by Turkey and entered the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, creating a booming industry for human smugglers who can get them across the border.

There are likely “tens of thousands” of fraudulent refugees from Africa living in the United States, a CNN investigation reveals.

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) – Police in North Macedonia say a patrol has found 45 migrants on a main highway near the central town of Veles and arrested a van driver.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the semi-autonomous Kurdish provincial leadership in Iraq, expressed solidarity with the Syrian Kurds on Thursday, denounced Turkey’s invasion of northeastern Syria, and criticized the United States for failing to prevent the Turkish operation.

Actor Ben Stiller went after President Donald Trump in a Twitter rant in which the “Zoolander” star said he’s deeply disturbed “to see the president encourage antipathy towards, and fear of #Refugees.”

Over 60,000 civilians in northern Syria have been displaced during the first 36 hours of Turkey’s invasion, the London-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Thursday.

President Erdogan of Turkey and Hezbollah politicians in Lebanon are threatening the EU to submit or watch as their countries “open the gates” for millions of illegal migrants. 

President Trump said that should Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists flee to other regions of the world, they will be headed to Europe, not the United States.

German interior minister Horst Seehofer travelled to Turkey and Greece this week to meet with government leaders to prevent a new migrant crisis.

Just under 90 per cent of the asylum seekers who came to Sweden at the height of the migrant crisis and have gained permanent residency are unemployed.

A coalition of Republican and Democrat Senators sent President Trump a letter last month, begging his administration to bring “as many refugees as possible” to the United States next year. 

Pope Francis unveiled a massive bronze sculpture depicting 140 migrants in Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican Sunday, the first sculpture to be installed in the piazza in over 400 years.

A gang of North African youths from Algeria robbed an Italian Senator of the Five Star Movement (M5S) along with a judge at Rome’s central Termini railway station.

President Donald Trump is giving states, cities, counties, and towns the legal power to prevent groups from dumping foreign refugees into their communities. 

A citizen-led group has taken to the Slovenian-Croatian border in an effort to help bolster the presence of law enforcement agents preventing illegal mass migration.

Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjártó has warned that the European Union is once again trying to “cram mandatory migrant quotas down the throats of European countries”.

Rohingya refugees living in the United States are “frustrated and distraught” over the prospect that President Trump may further reduce the number of refugees that are resettled every year, possibly even to zero.

ABOARD THE OCEAN VIKING (AP) – A ship carrying 182 migrants picked up in the Mediterranean Sea said Sunday that Italy has granted permission for its passengers to disembark in Sicily.

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) – Greece’s migration policy minister says the European Union’s Mediterranean states are in a better position to convince other EU partners to help them cope with migrant arrivals.

Archbishop Joan-Enric Vives of Urgell, Catalonia, said in a letter Sunday that European nations have the “inescapable duty” to welcome migrants and refugees who are trying to find a better life for themselves.

Matteo Salvini has sharply criticized Italy’s new government’s shift in immigration policy, saying that Italy is going back to being “Europe’s refugee camp.”

Underage migrants from Muslim-majority Albania and Kosovo often end up in leftist government areas due to higher benefits, according to a report.

ABOARD THE OCEAN VIKING (AP) – An NGO migrant transport with 82 migrants aboard says it has been given permission to dock at a tiny Italian island.

A moratorium on the refugee resettlement program is “long overdue,” columnist Michelle Malkin says, after American communities have been forced to absorb hundreds of thousands of refugees from across the globe over the last four decades.

The Dutch government on Friday announced it would budget 23.8 million euros (about $26 million) for the Caribbean islands of Curacao and Aruba to help deal with a massive influx of refugees from Venezuela.

In my new book, “Open Borders Inc,” I have profiled 60 of the planet’s most maleficent refujihadis nabbed over the past dozen years.

Two Afghan men who allegedly plotted to kill a woman who renounced Islam to embark on a career in the porn industry have been arrested in the United Kingdom and are slated to be extradited to their homeland.

In a belligerent speech to officials of his ruling AKP party on Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he “cannot accept” nuclear powers denying Turkey access to nuclear weapons of its own, and threatened to “open the gates” and flood Europe with Syrian refugees if the United States does not work with Turkey to resettle the refugees in a new “safe zone.”

Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rick Scott (R-FL) are asking President Trump to give refuge in the United States to Bahamians hit by Hurricane Dorian.