IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. THE DIRECTOR OF A REFUGEE WELCOME CENTER IN POLK COUNTY SAYS A PAUSE IN FEDERAL FUNDING IS BEING FELT HERE AT HOME. IN A RECENT ORDER, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROZE FUNDING ...
The Trump administration has made a cruel and counterproductive decision about refugees. Beyond just suspending future refugee admissions through the resettlement program, the administration ...
President Trump, who has criticized refugee resettlement, moved on his first day in office to suspend the decades-old program to admit persecuted people to the United States. By Hamed Aleaziz ...
When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in 2021, hundreds of thousands of refugees fled across the border to neighboring Pakistan, seeking safety away from the radical Islamist group. Afghan ...
The decision leaves refugees who have completed a lengthy process stranded abroad and facing extended separation from loved ones already in the U.S. By Miriam Jordan and Hamed Aleaziz Miriam ...
Claudine Irankunda had just led her 3-year-old daughter past the airport security exit on Tuesday when her husband, who she'd last seen in a Rwandan refugee camp more than three years earlier ...
I have worked in refugee resettlement for the Ethiopian Community Development Council for much of the past four years, helping mostly Afghan and Ukrainian refugees find housing in communities in ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A Yazidi woman running a thriving online cosmetics business in Germany is encouraging other women to pursue online careers. Hadya Smuqi, originally from Shingal ...
SHINGAL, Iraq - Members of a Yazidi family, rescued from ISIS after being kidnapped by the group in 2014, continue to struggle as they live in a tent in poor condition. Omer is from Shingal’s ...
IA Nice is a nonprofit group providing assistance with legal entry into the U.S. and helping refugees become financially independent. Augustana professor and founder of IA Nice Angela Boelens has ...
The sudden fall of Syria’s Assad regime in early December has raised an important question: Can the 6 million who became refugees during the 14-year civil war now go home? Officials in Turkey ...