Refugees

But beyond the material question of enrichment is the spiritual one of ennoblement. Of what can Americans be more proud than that we so often opened our doors to those for whom every other door was shut? All of which makes this a moment of unique shame for t…

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a fierce dissent on Wednesday after a majority of her colleagues allowed President Donald Trump’s effort to ban most migrants from Central America from seeking asylum in the United States to go forward while legal c…

The immigration issue already had a noticeable impact on the race during the first round of Democratic debates in June. On the first night, Mr. Castro pointedly asked the other candidates to join him in supporting the repeal of a statute that makes crossing t…

You could feel the pride pulsating across Canada on Saturday afternoon as Mississauga-born Bianca Andreescu beat higher-ranked Serena Williams in straight sets at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. The 19-year-old ignored the hype surrounding Ms. Wi…

Media captionJonathan Head visits one of the camps built for returning Rohingya Entire Muslim Rohingya villages in Myanmar have been demolished and replaced by police barracks, government buildings and refugee relocation camps, the BBC has found. On a gover…

Are Rohingya ready to return to Myanmar?

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump seemed to contradict his acting Customs and Border Protection head Monday over what would happen to Bahamian refugees landing in the US without proper documentation. Trump told reporters outside the White House that any…

More than 100 people trying to escape the devastation Hurricane Dorian wrought on the Bahamas were turned away from a rescue ferry Sunday night. The incident was caught on a video posted by Brian Entin, a reporter for Miami TV station WSVN. A ferry crew me…

The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up the governments existing program of demanding people entering the country hand over the details of their presence on social media, CNN reported on Friday. While the State Department already mandates that alm…