Sentences with phrase «states by refugees»

During Trump's other weekend in Florida, several thousand people marched near the property to protest his temporary ban on travel to the United States by refugees as well as citizens of seven mostly Muslim countries.

Not exact matches

ENJOINED AND RESTRAINED from, in any manner or by any means, removing individuals with refugee applications approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as part of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, holders of valid immigrant and non-immigrant visas, and other individuals from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen legally authorized to enter the United States.

I am disturbed... by calls from both federal and state officials for an end to the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States, These refugees are fleeing terror — violence like we have witnessed in Paris.

The State Department said it will stand by President Obama's decision to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country next year.

Organizers of the GC2 conference affirmed the Christian command and privilege to care for refugees, stating, «We will not be motivated by fear but by love for God and others.»

Despite previous plans to admit the highest number of refugees in decades, the United States will shut its doors to thousands displaced by conflict in the Middle East — at least temporarily — under an executive order President Donald Trump signed Friday.

But poverty is aggravating, terrorism by States and rebels who receive weapons from sources and countries where private arms industries flourish is hyper - active, the molested and downgraded gender and bonded labour see no relief in sight and marginalized Third World peoples and the Fourth World of utter destitution are in despair, with a Fifth World of refugees emerging everywhere with nowhere to go, despite Refugee Laws and the Red Cross.

But the refugees from Syria — or anywhere else — that enter the United States have been vetted by multiple agencies for a minimum of 18 months, he said.

As several Christian organizations point out — including one actually approved by the State Department to be a part of the resettlement program — most refugees who come to the U.S. are here to be reunited or connected with family members already in the U.S.

Orban's government has campaigned against an EU plan to spread some of the burden of the influx of migrants and refugees by requiring member states to accept quotas.

«If you include that, the odds of being killed by a refugee who commits terrorist activity in the United States if you're an American is 1.36 billion,» said Soerens.

The letter also includes a plea for refugees, saying that «we are troubled by the dramatic reduction in arrivals of refugees to the United States, which declined from 96,874 in 2016 to just 33,368 in 2017.»

The principles of the plan: On the basis of UN Security Council Resolution 242, Israel will withdraw to the June 4, 1967, borders; the Palestinians will establish their independent state, with Arab Jerusalem as its capital; and an agreed - upon and just solution to 1948 Palestinian refugees problem will be found by the sides on the basis of UN General Assembly Resolution 194 of 1949.

More than half of white evangelicals (54 %) and white mainline Protestants (53 %) would support a law barring Syrian refugees from entering the United States, according to a survey conducted in June by the Public Religion Research Institute.

The debate over resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States was made more complex and distressing by the mass sexual assault of German women by what appears to have been North African and Middle Eastern asylum seekers in Cologne, Germany on New Years Eve.

«As Christian pastors and leaders, we are deeply concerned by the recently announced moratorium on refugee resettlement,» stated the group letter, later noting, «We have a historic call expressed over 2,000 years to serve the suffering.

Thus, fourthly, some Member States raise point that while the burden - sharing is both legally and morally acceptable (IOW: we will take refugees, of course), the fact is that every country has every right to apply laws as laid down in treaties and can not be bound by their interpretation or suspension by other Member States (IOW: but we will decide who is a refugee and who is not).

The Labour MP, Oona King, whose father was an African - American political refugee witch - hunted out of the United States by McCarthyites in the 1950s was attacked as a Jew when she defended her East London seat against the Respect Party in 2005.

For example, refugees fleeing wars of independence faced a perilous and tough experience, but in some cases were welcomed by independent governments in solidarity with states in which the anti-colonial war had not yet been won.

On the other hand, it seems likely that the prospect of being rescued in this way provides an incentive to migrants to embark on journeys that are visibly unsafe, and that where states have broken the link between rescue and access to their territory — as the Australian government has done by adopting a policy whereby migrant boats are either towed back to their point of embarkation, or else their occupants are assessed in offshore detention centres, with those qualifying for refugee status placed in third countries — the stream of boats rapidly dries up, and with it the loss of life.

Additionally, refugee and asylum - seekers movements across Europe, such as Kein Mensch ist Illegal in Germany, have responded to state hostility and neglect by providing their own legal aid, language courses, housing and other social services.

With the repatriation of all its citizens now impossible — particularly the most vocal opposition activists who left Rwanda in the post-1998 period and were thus unaffected (in theory) by the Clause's implementation — the Rwandan government shifted its approach to generously support a range of other initiatives and durable solutions in refugee - hosting states, for example the provision of passports to Rwandan refugees abroad from visiting delegations.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio released a package of statements supporting the effort to bring Syrian refugees into the United States and also blasted the comments made by Republican presidential candidates Chris Christie and Donald Trump.

Ms Davidson, meanwhile, put out a statement yesterday saying there should be no state visit as long as British nationals were caught up in the refugee ban — a condition that may have been met by the clarification obtained by the Foreign Office last night.

There is precedent too, in previous cases such as MSS v Belgium and Greece which have held that EU member states have acted illegally by deporting a refugee into another state's asylum system, where that refugee's human rights can not be guaranteed.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

Loach stated: «Thank you to the academy for endorsing the truths of what the film says, which hundreds and thousands of people in this country know, the most vulnerable and poorest are treated by the Government with a callous brutality that is disgraceful, a brutality that extends to keeping out refugee children we promised to help and that's a disgrace too.»

ENJOINED AND RESTRAINED from, in any manner or by any means, removing individuals with refugee applications approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services as part of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, holders of valid immigrant and non-immigrant visas, and other individuals from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen legally authorized to enter the United States.

The refugee - admission process drawn up by Congress 35 years ago essentially cuts local and state governments out of the decision - making about where refugees resettle.

Sen. Terrence Murphy, a Hudson Valley Republican, has introduced legislation that would set up a process by which the state would keep watch over foreign refugees who relocate here.

The White House offered Gov. Andrew Cuomo detailed updates on in - state refugee resettlement amid pushback by other governors to the administration's goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees through September 2016.

Despite the vow by Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey not to accept any more Syrian refugees and withhold state financial support, another Syrian refugee family arrived in the state last night.

Farron, who is fighting former health minister Norman Lamb for the right to succeed Nick Clegg, told the Observer that his party should show compassion by supporting an EU quota system under which refugees would be shared out between member states.

Language barriers presented by the 40 + languages spoken by our very large refugee population and students attending the New York State School for the Deaf that will lead to language interpretation «killer apps» to facilitate communication in healthcare, education and the courts system

The vote came nearly a week after a well - coordinated suicide - bombing and shooting attacks in Paris by Islamic State terrorists killed 129 people, and amid reports that one of the suspects posed as a Syrian refugee to enter France.

by David Greene Immigrants, visitors and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim nations are once again being allowed to travel to the United States after a federal judge in Seattle, WA., deemed the ban unconstitutional.

That proclamation caused chaos by blocking nationals of seven largely Muslim countries from entering the United States for 90 days, and indefinitely blocking Syrian refugees.

A Sudanese refugee is taken in by a straight - talking American woman (Reese Witherspoon) in their new home in the United States.

But that was 2014 (or 2015 here in United States, where the movie opened as the rare quality mid-January family release), a pre-Brexit, pre-Trump world whose anxieties about a growing refugee crisis were gently ridiculed by the film and its good - humored portrayal of the modern, multicultural British capital.

In Cambodia we meet KK, a former refugee turned LA Crip who was deported back to Cambodia by the United States government.

Pathos emerges from the briefly stated back story of Zero, one refugee among millions displaced by the genocidal upheavals of the Near East.

The state, as it were, is a hyper - corporatized Japan that's functionally controlled by Hanka Robotics, whose technologies turned Major from a refugee left for dead into a cyborg with a proclivity for swan - diving from high - rises with automatic weapons in tow.

Indeed, if refugees and asylum - seekers engage in productive work, they will not be viewed as a burden to a hosting state and they will be respected by members of the local community around them.

(41) Above all, tertiary education is a weapon to change a refugee situation and, finally, the primary vehicle by which they can meaningfully engage with various stakeholders, such as hosting communities, local authorities, hosting state government, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and a home country's government (in the case of a need to return arises).

The story told by Hari Adhikari, a 46 - year - old refugee from Bhutan whose family has been relocated to Syracuse, N.Y., illustrates the conflicts surrounding the displacement of thousands of Bhutanese who may be bound for resettlement in the United States.

As Lamb, Teese and Polesel have shown, with the increasing residualisation of public schools caused by the flight of cultural capital — itself a result of years of federal and state neglect and artificial choice programs promoting private schools — public schools have a larger proportion of problematic learners, disadvantaged and refugee families, and students at risk of school failure, but have larger class sizes than ever before in comparison with most private schools.

After fleeing Vietnam by boat in 1978 and enduring time in a Taiwanese refugee camp, Tai and his family emigrated to the United States.

a legal process, whereby refugees are granted a progressively wider range of rights and entitlements by the host State that are broadly commensurate with those enjoyed by its citizens.

Other principles that are, in a situation of Rwandan refugees, not observed by host countries are due process and presumption of innocence.26 Regardless of these principles, once Rwandan refugees have left their state, they were viewed as fugitives who must be hunted down.