Sentences with phrase «refugees coming to their states»

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In late October, President Donald Trump lifted a temporary ban on most refugee admissions, an action that should have cleared the way for more people fleeing persecution and violence to come to the United States.

Highest total since 1999 comes as federal judges rule against state attempts to ban Syrian refugees.

About half of Baptist (56 %) and Pentecostal (50 %) pastors say there's a sense of fear in their church about refugees coming to the United States.

While we fully support and appreciate President Trump in his stated mission to protect U.S. citizens from harm, we are similarly concerned for the safety and protection of refugees — some of whom are Christian, most of whom are Muslim, and nearly all of whom come from the homeland of Jesus himself.

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.

Despite misinformation floating around the Internet, the vetting process for refugees coming to the United States takes years to complete, and many are deferred or denied.

Kent Hill, World Vision: We're primarily involved in helping people understand that many of the refugees are not just the ones that come to the United States or to Europe.

It also halves the number of refugees that can come to the United States this fiscal year from 110,000 to 50,000.

Already, most religious minority refugees that come to America are Christians, according to a Pew analysis of data from the State Department's Refugee Processing Center.

During the first month of Trump's presidency, about 6,000 refugees came to the US, with about the same proportion of Christians (43 percent) as Muslims (46 percent), Pew reported using State Department data.

The administration is required to provide information to Congress concerning, among other things, «the nature of the refugee situation,» «an analysis of the conditions within the countries from which [the refugees] come,» «the extent to which other countries will admit and assist the resettlement of such refugees» and — not least — «the impact of the participation of the United States in the resettlement of such refugees on the foreign policy interests of the United States» [emphasis added].

Last week, the coffee chain Starbucks announced a plan to hire 10,000 refugees at its stores around the globe in response to a recent executive order, temporarily banning many from coming to the United States.

Even though they fit the definition of refugee, they can not — with the exception of Ethiopians — pass the ideological test of coming from a country considered «unfriendly» to the United States.

The SBC noted that «the world is facing the largest refugee crisis since World War II, with over 60 million people displaced throughout the world and considered refugees,» and that «there are expected to be 85,000 refugees coming into the United States in 2016 from four continents and the Caribbean.»

Now, the state Board of Regents wants to certify teachers coming from the island to help instruct the youngest storm refugees.

Due to covert state lobbying and overt NGO opposition, the Clause was altered to only apply to those refugees whom fled Rwanda between 1959 and 31st December 1998, and its proposed date for coming into force was pushed back to June 2013 to allow countries hosting Rwandan refugees additional time to establish alternative durable solutions [i] for refugees trying to avoid returning home.

The lawmakers said the refugees are fully documented and many have spent years in refugee camps while they were vetted to come to the United States.

Governors in more than a dozen states, too, have said they oppose having refugees settle in their states, though their power is limited when it comes to federal immigration policy.

Several aid organizations and pro-immigrant groups are pressuring the Canadian government to pull out of a controversial program which turns away almost all refugees coming in through the United States.

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.

«Just last year, over 5,000 refugees came to New York state, and 94 percent settled outside of New York City.»

This comes after Cuomo directed the Port Authority, the Department of State and Davis's office yesterday to jointly explore all legal options to help anyone detained at New York airports, and to ensure that the rights of refugees are protected under the law.

Spielberg tapped Kaminski to shoot Schindler's List in Poland just 12 years after the cinematographer had come to the United States as a political refugee.

For some refugee students, these groups are their most empowering experience since coming to the United States.

At Manzanita Community School, in Oakland, California, third - grade teacher Allison Stormont says many of her students» families fled Laos and stayed in refugee camps in Thailand while they waited to come to the United States.

And even though European states» leaders struggle to manage and act responsibly towards the crisis, people from all around the world have shown compassion by asking the European leaders to take action and by offering their help to those who need it most.In the celebration day of volunteering, IWB and CRW come together to ask you to join us in raising public awareness on the current European refugee crisis and in mobilising and engaging governments and communities to take collective action against human suffering.

Joe Eszterhas was born in Hungary, spent his first six years in Austrian refugee camps, and came to the United States in 1950.

It was brought to the United States in 1959 by the Cuban refugees who came to the new country.

Game developers locked out of the United States by the U.S. President's executive order targeting Muslim immigration and refugees are being offered a helping hand by publisher Devolver Digital to get their games on display at this coming Game Developers Conference (GDC 2017).

Born in Bosnia and Hercegovina, Maja Ruznic came to the United States as a refugee.

Lêand her family came to the United States as political refugees in 1975 during the final year of the Vietnam War, which has had a strong impact on her work.

As the companion article to this one points out, virtually every major prediction of catastrophe that global - warming alarmists have made about the coming state of the environment over the past several decades — from melting sea ice and flooded nations to loss of snowfalls and increased climate refugees — has proven utterly incorrect.

A Manitoba lawyer who handles refugee claims says more people are coming to Canada due to the rising rhetoric in the United States and Canada needs to act now to suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement.

a. Those who are the subject of international parental disputes over custody or contact; b. Those who are the subject of international abduction (including in those states which are not able to join the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention); c. Those who are placed abroad in alternative care arrangements which do not come within the definition of adoption and are therefore outside the scope of the 1993 Hague Inter-country Adoption Convention; d. Those who are the subject of cross-border trafficking and other forms of exploitation, including sexual abuse; e. Those who are refugees or unaccompanied minors.

Several law firms have taken advantage of this new approach to accessing capital, establishing boutique firms staffed by premier firm refugees, adopting more modern business practices... and notably establishing a foothold in the U.S. And while U.S. - based firms are unable to capitalize in this fashion, some have nonetheless adopted an approach to client service, billing and legal services delivery that will position them as solid investments with appealing multiples and significant growth potential if legislation of this type comes to the states.

Both sides of my family came to the United States after the war as refugees from the Soviet gulags in Siberia.

This point was driven home to me years ago by a colleague who came to the United States as a refugee from Vietnam.