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A State Department official dodged questions about the risk to Americans created by the agency’s decision to let U.S. residents select foreigners for the huge prize of refugee status, green cards, and then citizenship.

A Russian national called up for military service in Ukraine has been granted asylum by the Canadian government.

Amid an influx of tens of thousands of migrants, the Irish government has reportedly decided to reopen a tent city, as locals protest the EU member-state’s open borders policies.

France’s Council of State, the country’s top administrative court, has ruled that non-Ukrainian foreigners leaving Ukraine are not eligible for the same refugee protection in France as Ukrainian nationals.

The Department of Homeland Security publicly posted the names and personal information of 46 Cuban refugees who had requested protection from America out of fear of persecution at home, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday, tipping off the communist Castro regime.

An Afghan refugee, brought to the United States as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation, has now been deported after having been convicted of sexually abusing a three-year-old girl in Virginia.

A year-end federal government spending bill, totalling $1.7 trillion, funds more migration from Afghanistan even as vetting issues have plagued President Joe Biden’s administration and worried investigators. 

One in ten Somalis in Germany have been suspected of a crime, statistically, meaning that they are on average around five times more likely than the native population to be involved in criminality.

As of March of next year, the Polish government will be looking to charge Ukrainian refugees for beds in accommodation centres as the country faces economic difficulties in housing over a million people who have fled the conflict with Russia.

President Joe Biden’s State Department is partnering with hundreds of multinational corporations to open a jobs program for refugees arriving in the United States as the nation’s labor force participation rate remains at historical lows. 

Over one third of Ukrainian refugees in Germany said that they do not want to return to their homeland anytime in the near future.

The European Commissioner for Home Affairs and Immigration, Ylva Johansson, has warned that Russia may be trying to create an influx of refugees into the European Union by bombing critical infrastructure across Ukraine.

The Swedish Migration Agency has stopped all deportations of women to Afghanistan and is now considering being a woman from Afghanistan as a sufficient reason to approve any asylum claim.

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the year-end American military funding bill, authorizes probes into President Joe Biden’s Afghan resettlement operation that allegedly brought hundreds, potentially thousands, of Afghans to the United States who were not fully vetted and are considered terrorist threats. 

Germany is “sleepwalking” into another migrant crisis as more waves of Ukrainians are expected to flee the country, a leading MEP warned.

A Libyan refugee faces trial in Paris this week after allegedly raping a woman at knifepoint after she hosted him in her home for several weeks.

Hundreds took to the streets of a working-class part of Ireland on Saturday after the country’s government moved a large number of male migrants into a former office block in the area.

The city of Berlin has announced it will be expanding its migrant reception centre a former airport for an additional 3,600 Ukrainians.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says “Western refugees” are welcome to abandon their multicultural homelands for Hungary, and that Joe Biden, unlike Trump, is too weak to make peace in Ukraine. 

The number of refugees resettled in Britain through official schemes increased by 56 times over the past year, Migration Watch UK reported.

Chinese-owned social media giant TikTok is profiting from videos of displaced families in Syrian refugee camps begging for donations. The company reportedly takes up to 70 percent of the proceeds from such livestreams.

Weddings booked by Britons at a stunning Victorian country mansion have been cancelled after the Home Office announced it needed the hotel for migrants.

An eight-year-old girl has suffered life-altering injuries after being stabbed up to 74 times in refugee accommodation.

At least three different groups of Cuban refugees have attempted, some successfully, to voyage by sea to Florida in the past week, attempting to use Hurricane Ian to avoid detection by the U.S. Coast Guard.

For Ukrainian and Russian military planners, the clock is ticking, with the approach of winter expected to make fighting more complicated.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s address to the 77th U.N. General Assembly in New York City on Tuesday was largely dedicated to his contention that nearly all problems can be solved through “dialogue,” and Turkey is indispensable to every dialogue in the Middle East and Asia.

A survey published this week has shown that the vast majority of “refugees” living in Sweden have vacationed in the country they fled from — though hardly any wish to ever return permanently.

President Joe Biden is looking to permanently resettle over 72,000 Afghans across American communities amid allegations of widespread vetting failures during the operation that brought more than 86,000 Afghans to the United States over the last year.

Of the 16 German regional states, just four still have room to accommodate incoming asylum seekers and refugees, as the country struggles to deal with new influxes of migrants coming by the Balkan route.

CARACAS – The Interagency Coordination Platform for Refugees and Migrants from Venezuela (R4V) announced on Monday that the number of Venezuelan migrants that have so far fled from their country and its socialist regime had reached 6,805,209 by August 5, more than 20 percent of the nation’s population.

A parliamentarian in Ireland has warned of the possibility of “significant conflict” between migrants and Irish citizens.

An Afghan refugee, who is Sunni Muslim, has been charged with the murder of another Muslim man in New Mexico in addition to two other Muslim men he is charged with killing.

Afghan refugees who fled their country a year ago after the Taliban seized Kabul organized two days of protests on Monday and Tuesday in United Arab Emirates (UAE), where they have been trapped in a migrant facility with little information regarding any potential departure.

GENEVA (AP) – Europe’s embrace of millions of Ukrainians who fled Russia’s invasion showed that it’s possible to welcome large numbers of asylum seekers, and the approach should be replicated to receive those fleeing other nations, the head of the UN refugee agency said.

Afghan refugees have reportedly refused to move to Scotland or Wales for fear that the countries are “too cold” and don’t speak English.

MADRID (AP) – A plane provided by the Spanish government has brought 294 more Afghan refugees via Pakistan to Spain, authorities said Thursday, bringing to 3,900 the number evacuated by Madrid since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last year.