Only a few days after President Obama announced that the United States would take another 10,000 Syrian refugees, CBS News in Baltimore ran a story about that city’s preparations to receive the new arrivals.
As Europe’s migrant crisis reaches a head, Austria, Slovakia and the Netherlands announced their intentions Monday to join Germany and the Czech Republic in reintroducing border controls to stem the tide of migrants crossing into Europe, especially now that Germany
GOP candidate Dr. Ben Carson said he would allow entry of Syrian migrants into the United States, but only after new border screening rules were in place.
The German federal government reintroduced border controls Sunday to slow the influx of immigrants arriving from Hungary via Austria, temporarily overriding the stipulations of the Schengen Agreement, which abolished internal borders and passport controls for the 26 participating states. Until
In response to Europe’s immigration crisis, the German federal government has decided to unilaterally reintroduce border controls, temporarily overriding the stipulations of the Schengen Agreement, which abolished internal borders and passport controls for the 26 participating states. According to the
Germany has halted train traffic from Austria, a spokeswoman for Austrian rail company OeBB said. Migrant arrivals from Austria have soared since Chancellor Angela Merkel effectively opened German borders to refugees a week ago.
So far in 2015 more than 430,000 migrants, including refugees seeking asylum, have arrived in Europe across the Mediterranean Sea. This record number represents nearly double the number of migrants for the entire year 2014, when 219,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Europe by sea.
On Thursday, China launched its second annual China-Arab States Expo in Ningxia province, which the state-run Xinhua news agency describes as “home to more than 10 percent of China’s 20 million Muslims.” Don’t expect that total to be increasing by any significant number of Syrians any time soon.
Not long before President Obama declared that at least 10,000 more Syrian refugees would be flown into the United States for resettlement, his director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper, warned about the dangers of ISIS operatives infiltrating Western countries through the flood of migrants.
Those who attempt to escape deserve their death and destruction, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) argues in the latest issue of their magazine Dabiq, using a photo of drowned toddler Aylan Kurdi to emphasize their point.
The Saudi government will not accept any migrants from Syria, but it will build 200 Saudi-run mosques in Germany to hinder any social integration of the Muslims into Germany’s liberal and low-conflict society.
WASHINGTON, D.C.– The United States is preparing for an influx of 10,000 additional Syrian refugees in 2016, according to the White House.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told legislators on Wednesday that he believes the United States should increase the amount of refugees that Washington absorbs per annum to 100,000 people, the New York Times reports, citing congressional staffers and Obama White House officials.
More than 90 percent of recent refugees from Middle Eastern nations are on food stamps and nearly 70 percent receive cash assistance, according to government data. The high welfare rates among Middle Eastern refugees comes as the Obama administration considers increasing the number of refugees — who are immediately eligible for public benefits — to the U.S., particularly Syrian refugees.
The Obama administration is planning to resettle 5,000 more refugees into the U.S. next year and that number could go much higher, Secretary of State John Kerry told lawmakers Wednesday in a closed door meeting. Kerry told lawmakers the administration is planning to increase the number of refugees from the past three year’s level of 70,000 to at least 75,000. When asked for a number, aides told the Wall Sttreet Journal, Kerry said about 100,000.
2016 Republican presidential candidates Governor Scott Walker and Donald Trump are updating their position on taking more Syrian refugees into the United States. Both are now opposed to the idea.
“The United States should take its responsibility in the disheartening refugee crisis in Europe as its controversial Middle East policies resulted in wars and chaos that displaced large numbers of people,” hectors China’s state-run news agency, Xinhua.
The immense migration wave pushing out of the Middle East will not stop in Europe. It is already coming ashore in the United States, as the number of Syrian refugees to be resettled in America has increased dramatically over the past year. Where do the presidential candidates stand on this issue?
The large Republican presidential field has taken a variety of positions on the topic of how many Syrian refugees should be allowed to resettle in the United States. The much smaller Democrat field also appears to be divided on the issue.
On Monday, AFP reported that the U.S. government has asked Greece to deny its airspace to Russian supply flights. The Greek foreign ministry is said to be “examining” the request.
The 42 Syrian refugees granted asylum in Uruguay are staging a sit-in before the office of the President in Montevideo, accusing the government of lying to them about economic opportunity and demanding to return to Lebanon.
The prime minister of Hungary accused Berlin of encouraging “millions” of refugees to travel to Europe by allowing them to enter Germany without limits, Sky News reports.
The Associated Press has filed an astounding report on the piles of fake documents appearing as discarded refuse along the migrant route into Europe, as the number of people claiming to be “Syrian” for the purposes of securing asylum status surges exponentially.
What should be the Christian response to the columns of refugees currently making their way across Europe? Since the picture of little Aylan washed up on a beach went viral, it appears that there is only one proper response: we
Following the viral spread of images depicting the bodies of drowned Syrians on a Turkish beach–including a three-year-old boy named Alan Kurdi–the Canadian left has sprung to attention to decry what they describe as the Conservative government’s inaction towards assisting migrants and war refugees.
One of the world’s largest, allegedly corrupt charities has joined forces with one of the world’s largest, allegedly corrupt governments to guilt trip the Western world into welcoming 60 million migrants to their shores. On Sunday, the European Commission and Oxfam launched
The number of refugees that Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron will recommend the country takes has jumped from an extra 4,000 to 10,000 over the weekend, with indications from the British government that they will now spend the UK’s international
In his most forceful appeal to date, Pope Francis launched an urgent plea Sunday asking all Catholic institutions on Europe to take in one refugee family, beginning with his own diocese of Rome.
The image of a two-year-old Syrian boy named Aylan Kurdi lying dead on a beach in Turkey, drowned after a failed attempt by refugees to cross the Mediterranean in unreliable boats, has become a flashpoint for the European migrant crisis. It is not yet clear what conclusions will be drawn from the tragic incident.
The U.S. State Department, when requesting American taxpayer funds to finance assistance for Afghan refugees in Iran, relies on unverifiable data that a United Nations agency obtains from the Islamic Republic, according to a watchdog agency appointed by Congress.
One in 25 people that boards a boat bringing migrants across the Meditteranean into Europe will die. This is brutal, emotive extent of Europe’s migrant crisis. If the numbers don’t do it for you, the pictures will, which is why
A cramped truck was found abandoned along the main Austrian highway from Budapest to Vienna containing the decomposing bodies of 71 migrants, according to Austrian officials.
From Ishaan Tharoor at the Washington Post comes an argument that Europeans resisting the wave of migrants from Middle Eastern hell-holes have got it all wrong. The new arrivals will actually save Europe, by repopulating it with someone other than Europeans.
Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni has struck back at German Chancellor Angela Merkel after she publicly criticized Italy’s handling of the immigration crisis.
According to Agence France-Presse, the United States will accept between 5,000 and 8,000 Syrian refugees in 2016. This is a modest number when measured on the scale of mass migration – a veritable drop in the bucket compared to the tide sweeping through Europe – but still much larger than what Americans were previously told to expect by their government.
In the last two weeks, the Balkan nation of Serbia has been flooded with more than 23,000 immigrants crossing into the country from the south, with another 7,000 crossing the border in the past two days alone. This brings the year’s total to about 90,000 immigrants into Serbia.
Slovakia has taken a controversial route in dealing with the ongoing European migrant crisis, with officials in Bratislava saying that they may only let Christians into the country, given the fear that Muslim refugees will not acclimate to their existing civil society.
Denmark will tell the United Nations it wants to be able to pick and choose the best refugees from the annual UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) programme. Denmark takes 500 refugees a year from the UNHCR under a quota agreed
The government of Honduras is facing unprecedented numbers of Cuban refugees who opt to reach its shores on makeshift maritime vessels, hoping to cross north towards the United States. Honduras has apprehended 5,000 Cuban nationals so far this year, 3,000 more than the entirety of 2014.
The United States is experiencing a massive surge in the number of Cuban refugees risking their lives to reach American shores, following President Obama’s announcement that the White House would legitimize the communist Castro regime by reestablishing diplomatic relations.