Sentences with phrase «desperate refugees»

Enormously overcrowded, its normal population had skyrocketed, increased not just by a naturally high birthrate but also by revolution in a neighboring country — forcing thousands of desperate refugees upon its borders.

The Paris attacks must become calls to action to end the wars that are tearing the Middle East apart and flooding the world with desperate refugees.

Influenced by advisors whose white nationalists views are well known, the president has waged a propaganda war against ethnic and religious minorities, stoking fear and hate by lying about crime rates, terrorist attacks, and voter fraud and by issuing executive orders that have already hurt many thousands of people around the world, including desperate refugee families.

EU immigration policies have encouraged people traffickers and brought desperate refugee camps to our borders.

For more than a year, world news has reported desperate refugees, most from war - torn Syria, dying in their attempts to reach Europe.

Inspire your students with the untold story of American upstanders who risked their lives to help desperate refugees.

In town, you'll occasionally find fanatical servants of the new villain trying to radicalize desperate refugees.

Instead, the news was dominated by Donald Trump, after he doubled - down on his call for an outright ban on Muslims entering the U.S. Not just desperate refugees from Syria (my country was already shutting the doors on them), but any and all people of the Muslim faith.

A poster on the streets of Britain that demonised hundreds of desperate refugees, including hungry, terrified children, fleeing from the terror of Isis and from Russian bombs.

It was this human capital that took a desperate refugee population in Hong Kong and turned it into a world - class financial center; this human capital that saw Japan and South Korea arise from the ashes of war; this human capital whose success in turning around centuries of poverty has led to what the World Bank calls «The East Asian Miracle.»

But the plans are in danger of being trampled by another wave of desperate refugees.

Traveling with forged papers and depending on the kindness of strangers, Fereiba and the children make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness, the start of a harrowing journey that reduces her from a respected wife and mother to a desperate refugee.

Because when I see the storms that we're all heading into, the scarcity and instability and violence, and I see what those with wealth and power are prepared to do to hold onto that wealth and power — when I see my country scapegoating entire classes of people and closing its doors to desperate refugees — I know it matters all the more what kind of a government, what kind of a democracy, what kind of a society we have, what kind of a people we will be, as we head into that future.

In essence, the Danish government passed a law to take away the lifelines of the desperate refugees entering their country.