Refugees

Image copyrightAFP/Getty ImagesImage caption Migrants travelling from Guatemala to Mexico - as pictured - would not then be permitted to apply for asylum in the US The Trump administration has announced a new rule to curb Central American asylum claims in …

Barbara A. Blair, the president of the Garment District Alliance, which represents businesses and property owners in the area between Penn Station and the Port Authority, said that starting last summer, significantly more people arrived who appeared to be usi…

A resolution was introduced in the House of Representatives on Monday condemning President Donald Trump for his " racist comments" made against progressive freshman congresswomen. The resolution, introduced by freshman Rep. Tom Malinowski of New Jersey, is…

WASHINGTON -- Reversing decades of U.S. policy, the Trump administration said Monday it will end all asylum protections for most migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border -- the president's most forceful attempt to block asylum claims and slash the number…

Some 9,500 members were in the racist 'I'm 10-15' CBP Facebook group A U.S. border official told the Associated Press today that 62 Customs and Border Patrol employees, and 8 ex-employees, are all under investigation over that racist and violent CBP Faceboo…

In a statement issued Sunday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned an extremist attack in Somalia which killed 26, including a prominent Somali-Canadian journalist and her husband. According to Somali officials, 43-year-old Hodan Nalayeh, a former Toronto…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday told a group of mostly American-born Democratic congresswomen to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” a comment that was condemned by Democrats a…

Two years ago this month, a US-led military coalition declared victory against ISIS in Mosul, liberating one of Iraq's largest cities after three years of occupation by the radical Islamist group. While the eastern part of the city is on the road to recovery,…

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) A potential agreement with Washington to turn Guatemala into a "safe third country" for asylum seekers has the Guatemalan opposition up in arms and experts scratching their heads. President Jimmy Morales is set to meet Monday in Washingto…

Democratic attitudes toward refugees have grown substantially more welcoming in the past four years, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds. In a 2015 poll taken after President Barack Obama proposed admitting more Syrian refugees, Democrats were split on what t…