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A small town in the southwest corner in rural Missouri is forever changing due to chain migration policies and an influx in refugees who have entered the U.S. over the last decade.

Eighty-seven percent of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims are not affected by President Donald Trump’s Friday decision to temporarily withhold visas from citizens of seven Middle Eastern countries.

TEL AVIV — Immigration lawyers from groups financed by billionaire George Soros, a champion of open border policies, were signatories to a lawsuit filed Saturday to block President Donald Trump’s executive order halting visas for 90 days for “immigrants and non-immigrants” from Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, Iran, and Iraq.

Despite President Donald Trump’s call to end any further refugee resettlement from foreign countries with widespread Islamic terrorism, the federal government continued its influx of refugees just days before the new president’s Inaugural ceremony.

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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.

The new parliament of Somalia — made up of some 283 lawmakers — has been inaugurated despite concerns voiced by the United Nations and other international bodies over election irregularities linked to some candidates, in addition to violence, corruption, and intimidation that allegedly marred the integrity of the electoral process in the African country.

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.

Two female immigrants from Somalia living in the United States were convicted of giving material support to al-Shabaab, a designated Islamic terrorist organization.

Jihadists from the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabab have reportedly executed six Christians in a Kenyan town that borders Somalia, marking the latest in a wave of attacks targeting Christians in the predominantly Muslim region.

A migrant who fled the Somali Civil War 20 years ago is considering moving back to his homeland as he says Sweden has become a “war zone”.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in the latest edition of its weekly Arabic language newspaper al-Naba, praised the men behind last weekend’s Minnesota mall stabbings and the Orlando massacre in June, but they did not mention the suspect linked to the bombings in New York and New Jersey.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) warned that Muslims are now potential victims at risk of being harmed in the wake of the attack at a press conference addressing a Somali man who allegedly shouted “Allah” as he stabbed nine people at a Minnesota before he was shot dead by an off-duty officer.

Al-Qaeda, echoing previous attempts to stoke racial unrest, called on African Americans to convert to its extremist form of Islam in a video released days from the 9/11 anniversary.

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The number of U.S. born cases of active TB in the state actually declined from 8 in 2013 to 7 in 2014. But the number of foreign-born cases of active TB in Nebraska more than doubled in one year, from 13 in 2013, to 31 in 2014. According to the Centers for Disease Control, only 61.9 percent of the active TB cases in 2013, or 13 out of 21, were foreign-born.

Documents show that George Soros’ Open Society Foundations has spent 1.8 million dollars to improve the image of Somalians in Europe and to combat Islamophobia. Newly leaked documents form the Open Society foundation by site DC Leaks show the organized web

Health authorities have recorded 5,702 new cases of female genital mutilation in just one year, official figures show, equivalent to more than 100 cases every week.

A woman accused of funneling money to the al Qaeda-linked group al Shabaab willingly admitted that she is an ardent supporter of the Somalia-based terrorist organization on the first day of her trial.

TEL AVIV – In an unprecedented move, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the president of Somalia, a Muslim country that does not recognize the State of Israel, a source close to the Somali leader told The Times of Israel.

Dr. John Baird, Health Officer for the Fargo Cass Public Health Department in North Dakota, confirms to Breitbart News that the agency, which serves all of Cass County, has diagnosed and treated four refugees with active tuberculosis (TB) between 2012 and 2015.

Gunmen stormed a hotel in Somalia’s seaside capital Saturday, taking guests hostage and “shooting at everyone they could see,” before security forces pursued the grenade-throwing assailants to the top floor and ended the hours-long assault, police and witnesses said. At least 14 people were killed.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Gunmen who stormed a hotel in Somalia’s capital have taken an unknown number of hotel guests hostage, police said Saturday, as the attackers set up snipers on the rooftop and were throwing grenades. Islamic extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the latest in a series of hotel assaults in Mogadishu.

Militants from the al-Shabaab jihadist group attacked a police vehicle in northern Kenya Monday morning, firing a rocket propelled grenade that killed five officers, leaving two of them burnt beyond recognition.

Boko Haram – one of 34 ISIS affiliates and among the world’s deadliest terror groups – in 2014 notoriously kidnapped more than 200 school girls in Chibok, Nigeria. The administration responded with a memorable Twitter campaign featuring First Lady Michelle Obama holding a placard with the

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Taliban jihadists replaced their Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) counterparts as the world’s chief perpetrators of terrorism attacks last year, with 1,093 individual attacks, according to the U.S. Department of State’s Country Reports on Terrorism 2015.

Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto said Tuesday that the nation has definitively decided to shut down the Dadaab refugee camp, believed to be the world’s largest, because it has become a reliable recruitment center for the jihadi group Al-Shabaab.

Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, is criticizing the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for allowing refugees to enter the United States without screening and treatment for latent tuberculosis.

A U.S. military airstrike recently targeted the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab terrorist group in southern Somalia, killing five jihadists and wounding two others, reveals the Pentagon.

The trial of three Somali-American men accused of planning to join the Islamic State began with some courtroom drama, as ten prospective jurors declared they could not be impartial towards the defendants, and one defense lawyer told the judge he has been feuding with his client.

Police in Kenya say they foiled a potentially “large-scale” terrorist plot to kill innocent civilians using the biological agent anthrax that was planned by an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked cell of jihadi medics seeking to recruit university students.

Kenya has announced it will begin erecting a nearly 435-mile-long wall along its northeastern border with Somalia to stem the flow of jihadists from the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab.

More than 400 drowned when a vessel crammed with migrants capsized early Monday morning during an attempt to make the crossing from Egypt to southern Italy across the perilous Strait of Sicily. The migrants were mostly Somalis, along with some

The Palermo Court of Appeals confirmed the 30-year sentence of Somali migrant smuggler Mouhamud Elmi Muhidin Friday, found guilty of human trafficking, criminal racketeering aimed at illegal immigration and sexual violence. Muhidin was the captain of a vessel loaded with

A left wing activist has bared all to a Norwegian documentary crew about his rape at the hands of a Somalian migrant, and his despair at seeing the man deported. An active member of the Norwegian Socialist Left Party (SV)