Sentences with phrase «fleeing violence in their country»

For several years now, Central Americans seeking to flee violence in their countries have banded together around Easter to cross into Mexico, some to stay there and some to take a chance on applying for asylum in the United States.

Today marks five years since the start of the Syrian Civil War and in that time, more than 4.7 million people have fled violence in the country and 6.6 million more have been internally displaced.

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Most of these were children — increasingly 12 and younger and female — either fleeing violence in their home countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala or seeking family reunification.

Two teens fleeing violence in war - torn countries sought asylum in the U.S..

Several children and families that have fled their homes in Myanmar to escape military - led violence are now living in refugee camps in the neighboring country of Bangladesh and require certain necessities while they await placement.

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 head of the Catholic Church in Iraq is warning EU leaders the violence in the country is forcing most Christians to flee.

In the single month of January 2016, at least 244 people — many of them children — died while trying to make it to Europe, fleeing violence, persecution and war in countries in the Middle East and North AfricIn the single month of January 2016, at least 244 people — many of them children — died while trying to make it to Europe, fleeing violence, persecution and war in countries in the Middle East and North Africin countries in the Middle East and North Africin the Middle East and North Africa.

They point to her 2 - 1 margin with Latinos over Obama in the 2008 primary and the latest party platform, which calls for a path to citizenship «for law - abiding families who are here,» the end of immigration raids against children and families, due process for «those fleeing violence in Central America,» and to rescind statutory bans on immigrants who modify their status in the country.

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On Wednesday, a young Syrian family fleeing violence in their native country was forced to change their resettlement plans when the governor of Indiana declared they would not be welcome in his state because of their nationality.

Seeing his name in the NCAA record book or on an NBA draft list was a distant dream in 1999, when Gai put a few belongings in a backpack and fled Khartoum to avoid compulsory army service in civil - war - torn Sudan, a country riven for decades by sectarian violence.

Concerns about poverty, HIV / AIDS, human rights and violence in Zimbabwe are a particular cause for worry in the UK, as the former colonial power, not least because it is the preferred destination of many people fleeing the country.

The New York Observer reported that Mark - Viverito called for the undocumented children to be welcomed here because they are fleeing violence in their home countries.

2015 is just a week old, but we have already seen two worrying trends for Syrians fleeing the violence of war: first, an increase in restrictions imposed on those seeking to settle in neighbouring countries such as Lebanon; and secondly, even more refugees boarding boats and taking risky journeys in the Mediterranean.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito called on New York City to follow Syracuse's footsteps and offer shelter to some of the unaccompanied, undocumented immigrant children flooding into the country as they flee violence in Central America.

Caught in the middle of a brutal civil war, six Liberian missionaries in Monrovia flee the widespread violence of their native country.

Kakuma, a large camp in northwestern Kenya, received more than 20,000 refugees fleeing violence in South Sudan, Somalia, and other countries in 2012 alone.

Three inner - city Bronx teens form an unlikely friendship in this moving urban story: 15 - year - old hearing - impaired Tamika; 16 - year - old illegal alien Fatima, who fled the violence and poverty of her African country; and Jimmy, an 18 - year - old street poet and junkie who has just been discharged from the army.

Because violence against women is widespread in many countries that appear stable and democratic, this has a negative affect on women fleeing gender - based violence: CCFR Women's Day 2016.