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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
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Agency official who's resettling Afghan refugees angry that US left allies behind: 'Our government has not kept its promise'
A State Department official estimated Wednesday that the US left behind "the majority" of special i…
Natalie Musumeci
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Thousands of Afghans who helped the US are likely to be left behind as Biden refuses to move his August 31 troop-withdrawal deadline
President Joe Biden says the US evacuation of vulnerable Afghans is proceeding as planned - but tho…
Tom Porter
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Hungary's notoriously anti-immigrant, Trump-backed leader is doing little to help the thousands of Ukrainian refugees he's allowed into the country as he campaigns for re-election
Viktor Orban was forced to make a major exception to his asylum policy amid the war in Ukraine. But…
Eliza Relman,Haven Orecchio-E…
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The Biden administration delayed giving visas to Afghans because it was worried about the 'optics' of resettling refugees, says GOP lawmaker trying to get them out
Rep. Peter Meijer has questioned why more urgency was not shown in providing asylum to Afghans vuln…
Tom Porter
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41% of Americans support increasing the number of special visas for Afghans who aided US forces: Insider poll
Respondents were asked if the US should issue more or less visas to US-allied Afghans than the 19,0…
Bryan Metzger
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Biden says some Afghans didn't want to be evacuated, but 18,000 who are stuck applied for special visas that haven't been processed
Experts estimate 18,000 Afghans and 53,000 of their family members have applied and are waiting for…
Eliza Relman
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Biden is raising the 2021 refugee cap to 62,500, but says 'the sad truth' is he will likely not achieve it
President Biden is preparing to raise this year's refugee cap from the historic low set by his pred…
Charles Davis
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Elon Musk's tweet is cited in a new DOJ lawsuit accusing SpaceX of routine discrimination against refugees
SpaceX has been sued by the DOJ for 'routinely' refusing to hire refugees for years and discouraged…
Rebecca Cohen,Jacob Shamsian
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Haitians are still being deported from the border. Experts say their plight exposes bias against Black refugees
The Biden administration faced backlash over mistreatment of Haitians on the border. Immigrant righ…
DeArbea Walker
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Recognizing the rights of climate refugees is the first step to relocating the millions of vulnerable island-nation residents who could be displaced in the next 3 decades
While Caribbean islands have some of the lowest greenhouse-gas emissions, they're the most vulnerab…
Christine Jean-Baptiste
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Vice President Kamala Harris said images at the border of officers chasing Haitian refugees reminded her of 'times of slavery'
Kamala Harris said she was "outraged" by images that appeared to show US border patrol officers on …
Katie Balevic
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Visitors can continue applying for work permits inside Canada
Foreign nationals who are in Canada as visitors and who receive a valid job offer will be able to a…
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Biden calls for accepting as many as 125,000 refugees per year - more than 8 times the number accepted under Trump
Under President Donald Trump, refugee admissions had been capped at a historic low of just 15,000.
Charles Davis
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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
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A former Obama official says the Biden administration has its work cut out for it to fix refugee resettlement and asylum
Business Insider spoke to Robert Carey, the former director of refugee resettlement, about the work…
Azmi Haroun
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How a refugee from Vietnam ignited the sriracha phenomenon in America
After the Vietnam War, David Tran fled persecution and found refuge in the US. He started Huy Fong,…
Yoonji Han
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AOC says US should be treating all refugees the way the world is treating Ukrainian refugees
"We really need to make sure that when we talk about accepting refugees that we are meaning it for …
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Trump administration is extending a ban on 'non-essential' travel at the borders with Canada and Mexico — including a ban on asylum-seekers
Public health experts say the ban on refugees has no basis in science, with critics charging it's m…
Charles Davis
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As Ukrainians receive legal protections in the US and EU, Black and brown asylum seekers are left behind, advocates say
The US and the EU expedited temporary immigration status for displaced Ukrainians. Immigration righ…