About 150 residents of Nebraska gathered near the state’s capitol to demand the influx in refugees and migrants during the Obama administration’s years continue during President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.
The refugees resettled by the federal government in New Hampshire produced 29 percent of all diagnosed active tuberculosis (TB) cases in the state during 2014 and 2015, says the Centers for Disease Control.
The Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed that eight refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) “during the initial health screening or within 90 days of the refugee arrival” in the four years between 2012 and 2015.
CHICAGO, Illinois – The Archbishop of Chicago called for comprehensive immigration reform, which would include amnesty for illegal immigrants, during a recent ceremony focusing on the issue.
Liberal European Union (EU) leaders have attacked Austria for proposing asylum centres are created outside the block to help solve the migrant crisis.
The state of Virginia refuses to track the number of refugees it resettles who are diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB).
Skilled immigrants who arrive in the United States as legal refugees often find that the U.S. is a welcoming place where they can find good jobs and start a new life, and Eli’s Cheesecake company in Chicago has many success stories to tell. But immigrants with a history of skilled labor and those unskilled are quite different.
Refugees are entering the city of Knoxville, Tennessee at an historic rate, with over 230 being resettled in the region and another 245 expected to arrive in 2017.
Between 2012 and 2015, 1,565 refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) in the United States, according to annual reports published by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Somalis are the least educated group of refugees who have arrived in the United States during the first three months of FY 2017.
President Barack Obama’s deputies have dropped 502 additional refugees into Nebraska during the first three months of FY 2017, according to the Department of State.
According to an Italian intelligence report quoted by the UK Daily Mail, former NATO soldier-turned Islamic State (ISIS) commander Lavdrim Muhaxheri has fled the Syrian battlefield and returned to Europe with up to 400 of his savage troops in tow, posing as refugees.
A parish priest in the south of Italy enraged parishioners by dressing the Virgin Mary in a Muslim burqa for his church’s Christmas Nativity scene, adding a boatful of refugees and a rainbow flag in place of the star of
President Barack Obama’s administration has resettled 46 refugees in Missoula, Mont., since August, according to the Department of State’s interactive website. Local opposition to the influx of refugees has been loud and vocal, but the Obama administration and the local
The Obama administration has accepted 25,584 refugees into the United States in the two months and 26 days since FY 2017 began on October 1, according to the Department of State interactive website. That number is nearly double the 13,791 refugees accepted during the comparable period between October 1, 2015 and December 26, 2015 of the prior fiscal year (FY 2016).
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Breitbart News National Security Editor and author of the best-selling book Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, discussed elevated security concerns in the United States after the Berlin Christmas market massacre in a Fox News appearance on Wednesday
Actress Lindsay Lohan will reportedly spend the Christmas holidays working and visiting with refugees in Turkey.
Syrian refugee Aras Bacho has said that women are mostly to blame for the New Years’ Eve sex attacks across Germany last year.
Protesters shouting “liberation not integration” stormed the stage at the National Immigrant Integration Conference on Tuesday, disrupting Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) as he was about to deliver a speech to the gathering, eyewitnesses tell Breitbart News.
Businesses should “work together in common cause” to spread a “unified message” of welcome and acceptance to refugees and migrants, an organisation co-founded by Richard Branson has said. Refugees and migrants have been dubbed an “opportunity for humanity” in a
CitiGroup is spending $100,000 to be a “diamond sponsor” of the ninth annual National Immigrant Integration Conference, a gathering of refugee and immigrant advocacy organizations meeting in Nashville for three days that began on Sunday to plan opposition to President-elect Donald Trump’s refugee and immigration policies.
Two hundred thirty seven of Benson Magnet High School’s 1,273 students, or 18.6 percent, are refugees, according to Omaha Public School’s District English Language Learner/Refugee Report, 2015-16.
It is a powerful comment on how difficult conditions have become in the Horn of Africa that refugees from Ethiopia and Somalia are pouring into Yemen, a war-torn nation that would seem an unlikely destination.
The British government should spend more on legal aid to help migrants successfully apply for asylum in the UK, a Labour MP has suggested.
Following other liberal American universities, Vanderbilt students are now demanding sanctuary city policies for their campus to ensure illegal immigrant students are not deported.
According to a new post by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the Mediterranean Sea is one of the world’s most dangerous migration routes and is “cluttered with sunk rubber dinghies.”
“People in government” headed up a “452-person nationwide ‘post-election national refugee advocacy’ conference call” on Friday, according to a report at MassLive.com.
“In God’s heart there are no enemies,” Francis said Saturday. “God only has sons and daughters. We are the ones who raise walls, build barriers and label people.”
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to take in any refugees seeking to make a home in his country, calling Western nations “hypocrites” for promoting human rights abroad but expressing concerns about migrant overflow in nations unprepared to take them in.
In the eight days since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, from November 9 to November 16, the Obama administration has brought 2,653 refugees into the country, a slightly higher rate than the 12,472 refugees brought in during the first forty days of FY 2017, according to the State Department’s interactive website.
Refugee resettlement industry executives acknowledge that President-elect Trump will have the legal authority to implement policy changes on his own.
In his statement, USCCB Migration Chairman Bishop Eusebio Elizondo offered Trump his support “for all efforts to work together to promote the common good, especially those to protect the most vulnerable among us.” At the same time, Elizondo offered “a special word to migrant and refugee families living in the United States: be assured of our solidarity and continued accompaniment as you work for a better life.”
Thirty-two refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) in Utah between 2011 and 2015, according to the Utah Department of Health. During that five-year period, a total of 172 cases of active TB were diagnosed in the state. Seventy-seven percent of those cases, 132 out of 172, were foreign-born. In contrast, during that same five-year period, 66 percent of all active TB cases in the United States were foreign-born.
“A Trump administration will not admit any refugees without the support of the local community where they are being placed,” Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told an enthusiastic crowd of more than 5,000 who greeted him at the Sun Country Airlines hangar of the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport on Sunday.
Maine is withdrawing from the federal refugee resettlement program just four days before Election Day, WMTW in Portland reports.
At least 239 migrants have drowned in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya on Thursday, while during the same day rescuers saved more than 760 survivors in a series of operations.
A recent poll in Texas shows that 45 percent of likely voters say they have a “favorable” opinion of Senator Ted Cruz. Those numbers are up 10 percent after his speech at the GOP convention where he told Republicans to “vote your conscience.”
In an unusually nuanced discourse, Pope Francis has seemed to walk back earlier statements encouraging European nations to open their doors to migrants and refugees, suggesting that harboring unassimilated migrants can lead to a dangerous “ghettoization.”
The Obama administration resettled 9,935 refugees in the United States in October, the first month of FY 2017, according to the Department of State’s interactive website.
Elite Iraqi forces were poised Tuesday for a first push into Mosul, after the prime minister warned jihadists who hold the city they have no choice but to surrender or die.
