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As the homeless population booms due to sky-high rent prices, we need to think of the California homeless crisis as a refugee crisis
Becoming homeless is not the result of any individual's failings. The unhoused are refugees and vic…
Jack Herrera  Â
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Ex-CIA analyst and war veteran says Afghan refugees should get the same opportunities as Ukrainian refugees
The president "could, right now, at this very minute, save most of these people," Matt Zeller told …
Taiyler Simone Mitchell  Â
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Jen Psaki says Blackwater founder Erik Prince is soulless for charging $6,500 for Kabul evacuation flight
Prince, a Trump ally and founder Blackwater Worldwide, said he'll charge extra to transport passeng…
Eliza Relman  Â
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The Taliban issued a death sentence to the brother of an Afghan interpreter who helped the US, despite saying it won't seek revenge
CNN obtained letters showing the Taliban sentenced the brother of an interpreter to death. The grou…
Kenneth Niemeyer  Â
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Refugee aid group leader implores the Biden administration to make it easier for Afghans to resettle in the US
Erol Kekic told Insider his organization, World Church Service, expects to aid around 10,000 Specia…
Kenneth Niemeyer  Â
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Afghan Air Force pilot in hiding pleads for help: 'Please don't leave us behind. Please. We will be great Americans.'
"We are hoping that the Americans will take us, and our families, to safety," a US-trained pilot un…
Grace Panetta  Â
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GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert slams Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal but voted against visas for Afghan partners last month
The "ALLIES Act" would increase the number of special immigration visas given to Afghans who've aid…
Eliza Relman  Â
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Countries prepare for influx of Afghan refugees as crisis deepens
Between 20,000 and 30,000 people were leaving the country on a weekly basis as of May, according to…
Vanessa Gu  Â
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Afghan allies remain in legal limbo one year after they arrived to the United States: 'A lot of them are in panic mode'
Creating a pathway to permanent residency would provide "peace of mind" for Afghan evacuees, one re…
Oma Seddiq  Â
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GOP politicians are invoking white supremacist conspiracy theories to stoke fears about asylum-seekers and immigrants. Instead of debating policy, their language puts real lives at risk.
From fear-mongering about asylum-seekers at the Texas border to preemptively accusing Afghan refuge…
Jack Herrera  Â
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A new low: In Biden's first year, the US is on track to resettle even fewer refugees than under Trump
Fewer than 10,000 refugees will be resettled by October, the lowest since at least 1975 and far bel…
Charles Davis  Â
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After 53 migrants were found dead in San Antonio, immigration advocates urge the Biden administration to end Title 42
The Biden administration vowed to lift Title 42, a health order that turns migrants away because of…
DeArbea Walker  Â
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Afghan Americans are devastated by the Taliban takeover and calling on the US to 'own up to its mistakes'
"I am sad and this is tragedy. All what we did was for not," said an Afghan American who worked in …
John Haltiwanger  Â
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Biden administration now says evacuation flights for Americans and Afghans fleeing Kabul will be free
The State Department said evacuation flights for people fleeing Afghanistan will be free, despite e…
Lauren Frias  Â
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Lawmakers are calling on the US to do more to help vulnerable Afghans following the Taliban takeover
Members from both sides of the aisle are calling on the Biden administration to extend refuge to th…
Erin Snodgrass  Â
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Biden administration announces it will start evacuation flights for Afghans who helped the US military
"Operation Allies Refuge" flights for Afghans who helped the US military are set to start at the en…
Kelly McLaughlin  Â
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'We are this generation's Ellis Island': 45,000 Afghans housed at US Army bases are still waiting to be resettled
There are also about another 26,000 applications from Afghans who are looking to enter the US waiti…
Sarah Al-Arshani  Â
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Despite Taliban threat, the US has accepted fewer than 500 Afghan refugees this year
Afghan workers who helped the US government were accepted in slightly greater numbers under a diffe…
Charles Davis  Â
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Bureaucratic red tape could leave thousands of Afghan refugees cut off from aid in the US
Cathryn Miller-Wilson, executive director of HIAS Pennsylvania, shares how the work has just begun …
Charles Davis  Â
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How much is a life worth? Refugee advocates ask Biden to waive fees for fleeing Afghans
Paying the fee does not guarantee application approval, and for families in the US seeking to spons…