US resumes accepting refugees from 11 high-risk countries

The Donald Trump administration is lifting the ban on admitting refugees from 11 "high-risk" countries, but is pushing for more serious screening of applicants from these states, including in-depth interviews. This is stated in a statement by the Department of Homeland Security. According to the secretary of the department ...

US cut aid to Palestine refugees by half

The US State Department has frozen the transfer of $ 65 million, which it planned to transfer to the UN agency for assistance to Palestine refugees. The State Department is calling for the reform of this agency, as well as for other countries to increase their level of assistance to refugees, especially those that criticize ...

Immigration detention center in New Jersey: how a “refugee prison” works

  ForumDaily offers a translation of an article by Elaine Barros for the Voice of America The first room in the former warehouse, which is now used as an isolation facility, is the waiting area. Here visitors register and wait for permission to meet with the detainees. The security check process is similar...

Refugees who cannot get settled in the United States rushed en masse to Canada

Refugees are leaving America in droves and moving to Canada. Some of them stayed in the United States for several days or weeks, others lived here for years, Fox News writes. "Most people want to come to Canada to become Canadian citizens," said Enrique Gasse, Constable...

Trump proposes to further reduce the number of refugees accepted

The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed introducing a new quota for the admission of refugees to the United States - no more than 45 thousand people a year. This is the lowest level since 1980, that is, for all the time that the current system of accepting refugees exists ...

In 2018, the US plans to take a record low number of refugees

The administration of US President Donald Trump in 2018 plans to accept no more than 45 thousand refugees. The Wall Street Journal writes about it. Donald Trump, after taking office as President of the United States, set a maximum restriction on the admission of refugees in the 2017 financial year ...

Ukrainians became the second largest group of refugees in the United States

As a child in the 70s and 80s in Ukraine, which at that time was part of the USSR, Galina Davidyuk often suffered from humiliation from classmates and teachers, because she was an evangelist. And her father was serving a sentence in prison for his religion. By…

Italians accept Samuel L. Jackson and Magic Johnson for refugees

Users of the social network Facebook in Italy began to actively disseminate photos of two "refugees" sitting on a bench with bags from the Prada boutique, providing them with angry comments about the Italian government for keeping refugees. It soon became clear that the photo was actually not ...

The United States will no longer accept refugees this year.

The State Department announced Wednesday, July 12, that the country has already met the 50 refugee limit for the fiscal year. Each year, the limit is set by the president. President Obama increased it from 85000 in 2016 to 110 in ...

During Trump’s presidency, the number of refugees has halved

The number of refugees who came to the United States in the first three months of Donald Trump's presidency has almost halved compared to the last months of Barack Obama's presidency. This is evidenced by statistics released by the Department of Homeland Security based on information provided by the State Department. So,…

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