Sentences with phrase «fled over the border»

In mid-June 2015, thousands of people began to flee over the border from the Dominican Republic into Haiti — many were forcibly deported — as Dominican officials began to implement a controversial immigration program targeting Haitian migrants and Dominican - born people of Haitian descent.

She is just one of more than 650,000 Rohingya who have fled over the border from Myanmar, where a government crackdown has spawned stories of brutal murder, rape and villages destroyed.

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Britain's currency, the pound sterling, and shares in Scotland - based financial institutions have both sagged amid uncertainty over what currency an independent Scotland would use and whether businesses and capital would flee across the border.

Founded in 2013, the AfD rose to prominence on the back of an anti-immigration stance and its opposition to Merkel's decision to open the country's borders to over a million migrants, mainly those fleeing violence and persecution from the Middle East.

The Washington Post: Hindus from Pakistan flee to India, citing religious persecution More than 250 Pakistani Hindus have arrived in India over the past two weeks bearing tales of religious persecution, according to Indian border officials, fueling perceptions of growing discrimination against minorities in Pakistan.

Sixty percent of Syrian refugees are young people who have experienced traumas we can't imagine: seeing a parent tortured or a sibling killed, watching entire city streets explode, fleeing from their homes or across borders in the dark of night, with shells flying over their heads or rebel soldiers chasing them.

The drainage, combined with a harsh anti-insurgency campaign, caused at least 140,000 marsh inhabitants to flee their homeland, many over the border into Iran.

Having fled to British Columbia decades ago to avoid the draft, Richard Forthrast then amassed a fortune transporting marijuana over the border to Idaho.

The ghost of Walter Benjamin, the leftwing thinker of a mystical bent who fled occupied Paris and committed suicide at the closed Spanish border, presides over this magnificent meditation on limits and boundaries.

Exactly here, where we are now standing, people had fled over the green border of Mexico, across his property.