In response, he signed an executive order on February 7, halting US aid to South Africa and offering refugee status to Afrikaners fleeing "government-sponsored race-based discrimination." ...

The terms refugee, immigrant and internally displaced people (herein referred as IDPs) may sound to bear similar meanings but are “quite different in their nature and scope. According to the ...

EXCLUSIVE: A congressman who fled Cuba in the 1960s will send DHS a list of people allegedly tied to the communist regime who are circumventing U.S. Cuban refugee laws. Rep. Carlos Gimenez ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The United States Embassy in South Africa said Thursday that it received a list of nearly 70,000 people interested in refugee status in the U.S. under President Trump ...

In other words, we could easily end up being 'climate refugees'. The term "climate refugees" has been used since 1985, when UN Environment Programme (UNEP) expert Essam El-Hinnawi defined climate ...

That was true even when public sentiment towards refugees dipped at various points in recent decades, she said. But Trump has faced little opposition from his own Republican Party so far during ...

The consequences for people fleeing danger will be immediate and devastating: Refugee women and girls at extreme risk of rape and other abuse are already losing access to services that kept them safe.

The US has received 28,957 Muslim refugees so far in fiscal year 2016, or nearly half (46 per cent) of the more than 63,000 refugees who have entered the country since the fiscal year began Oct. 1, ...

After a six-week federal funding freeze that decimated refugee services in Texas, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday released $47 million to the state’s refugee services ...

Around 67,042 Afrikaners have shown interest in becoming refugees in the United States (US), the South African Chamber of Commerce in the US has revealed. In an interview with Newzroom Afrika on ...

HARRISBURG — Six former Bhutanese refugees from central Pennsylvania who hold legal status in the United States were detained by ICE, as President Donald Trump’s administration moves into a new, more ...

Now he is among thousands of newly arrived refugees who lost financial assistance when the Trump administration cut off funding for the federal refugee program in January. His family’s monthly ...