Saw Soe Ku shares the struggles of Christians in Myanmar, the Karen State, living in refugee camps
Ei Tu Hta is an Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp located on the border of Myanmar and Thailand, consisting of 2,400 Karen State IDPs. Most of these residents are Christian, living in a predominately Buddhist More...
Mike Pompeo announces historic low number of refugees admitted into the US
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the United States will decrease the number of refugees admitted to the country from 45,000 to a historic low of 30,000 in 2019 during a press conference on Monday. “[The More...
Jeh Johnson discusses detaining illegal immigrants during the Obama administration
The former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson explained during an interview with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC how the Obama Administration expanded family detention of illegal immigrants in order to deal with More...
State Department stops describing West Bank as ‘occupied’ by Israel
The State Department’s annual report on human rights violations around the world was published on Friday and has dropped reference to the “West Bank” in Israel as “occupied” for More...
Human Rights Watch reveals Lebanon is evicting thousands of Syria refugees
Lebanon is using force to evict at least 3,664 Syrian refugees from their homes and expelled them from the municipalities, at thirteen at this time, due to their nationality and/or religion. Human Rights Watch More...
Quebec Plans to Revamp Entrepreneur Immigration Options
The Government of Quebec has proposed several updates to its Entrepreneur immigration category. The changes will revise two components which are used to select entrepreneurs. One will be focused on owner-operated More...
Venezuela crisis: Venezuelans fleeing their country, Neighboring countries stretched to capacity
Since 2014, more than 4 million Venezuelans have fled to find safety, food and medicines in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Aruba, Curacao and Spain. Image/CIA Neighboring More...
Fifteen Syrian refugees found frozen to death trying to cross into Lebanon
Seventeen Syrian refugees, some of them children, have been found frozen to death while trying to cross the mountainous border into Lebanon. Two bodies were found Saturday after the area was hit by a severe snowstorm, More...
Syrian chemical gas survivor rebukes Hillary Clinton’s claims, praises Trump, recent strikes
CNN’s Brooke Baldwin on Newsroom seemed shocked by her guest, Kassem Eid, a 2013 chemical weapons attack survivor, and his praise of Donald Trump and the attacks on Islamic State. Eid even refuted the claims More...
Jeff Flake on Syrian missile strike, Gorsuch filibuster and the refugee crisis
Talking with NPR’s Scott Simon, Arizona Senator Jeff Flake discussed the recent attacks against Syrian chemical weapons depots, the rebels and how the Trump administration should interact with Congress. Later More...
Mi Familia Vota’s Ben Moterroso attacks Trump speech: ‘Doubles Down On Toxic Rhetoric Targeting Immigrants and Refugees’
President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress with a plan for American families thick with nativist rhetoric and short on facts. While he began his address condemning hate crimes targeting Jewish More...
EU Cracks down on refugee crisis, blocking new asylum seekers, deporting others
While German chancellor Angela Merkel warned against imposing a “general suspicion” on all Muslims and French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said that welcoming refugees was “a duty of solidarity,” More...
Transcript President Trump MCCA speech: Border wall being ‘designed right now’ ‘I wasn’t kidding’
President Trump said his proposed wall along the Southern border of the United States is currently in the design phase during his speech to law enforcement officials at the Major Cities Chiefs Association Winter More...
EU blocks refugees from Libya, somehow Trump is attacked
During European Union’s latest summit in Malta on Friday to debate and discuss migration into Europe from the sub-Saharan Africa through Libya and across the Mediterranean, President Trump’s new immigration More...
NOT A MUSLIM BAN: Detailing the Trump immigration plan
The first weekend of President Trump’s immigration plans turned into a debacle as airports were placed of chaos as agents didn’t fully understand how to implement the President’s Executive Order More...
EU spends $214 million to fight human trafficking, refugees out of Libya
The European Union hopes to stop the flow of migrants on the central Mediterranean route by spending more than $214 million to train the Libyan coast guard and fight people smugglers. The European Commission Wednesday More...
New Jersey’s Chris Smith, Syrian Christian refugee set to join Open Doors USA for 2017 World Watch List of countries dangerous for Christians
On Wednesday, Jan. 11, at 9 a.m. ET at the National Press Club in Washington, Open Doors USA will announce its 2017 World Watch List, a ranking of the top 50 countries where it is most dangerous and difficult to More...
Germany: over 900 human trafficking arrests in 2016, mostly on Austrian border
Welt am Sonntag cited Germany’s Interior Ministry data listing 900 human traffickers detained during 2016, mostly on the border with Austria. Most of the smugglers, 481, were caught on the Austrian border More...
Dictionary.com’s word of the year is ‘Xenophobia’
With its 2016 word of the year, Dictionary.com has landed on one word to summarize the general mood of much of the world this year: “xenophobia,” the “fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, More...
Hillary Clinton hits Trump on misleading ad, offering fact checks and information on claims
Today, in response to Donald Trump’s new divisive and misleading campaign ad, HFA Deputy Communications Director Christina Reynolds offered the following statement: “From his divisive rhetoric to his erratic More...
