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Syrian refugee crisis: news and updates
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July 17, 2022
Why the US doesn’t want Turkey to invade Syria
If Turkey invades northeast Syria, the worst impacts will be local
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December 23, 2019
A leaked State Department memo opposes a bill that would resettle Syrian refugees in the US
It’s one of many ways the Trump administration has tried to scale back the US refugee program.
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October 29, 2018
"We used to take refugees because they were Jewish. Now we take them because we are."
An interview with the refugee group HIAS, which fights for refugees of all religions in the US.
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September 4, 2018
The looming fight for Idlib, Syria’s last main rebel stronghold, explained
Even President Donald Trump is worried about the likely humanitarian catastrophe.
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April 13, 2018
The US has all but slammed the door on Syrian refugees
The Trump administration uses Syrian refugees’ traumas as a reason the war needs to end — but not a reason to let them in.
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April 6, 2017
The best way the US could help Syrians: open the borders
Bombing is rarely the best way to help people.
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January 28, 2017
America just turned its back on Syrian refugees. Here is the hell they are fleeing.
This is what life is really like for the Syrians that Donald Trump has just blocked from taking refuge in the United States.
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December 31, 2015
Why Mormons identify with Syrian refugees
It goes back to the roots of the Mormon faith.
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November 23, 2015
Syria’s neighbors can’t solve the refugee crisis on their own
What's wrong with assuming that Syrian refugees can just go to nearby countries.
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November 19, 2015
Republicans have Obama in a corner on Syrian refugees
A bill that would require three top government officials to personally sign off on every single Syrian refugee coming to the US just passed the House — with a veto-proof majority.
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November 19, 2015
How America’s rejection of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany haunts our refugee policy today
In 1939, 900 Jews sailed across the Atlantic to escape from Hitler. America turned them away.
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November 18, 2015
These charts put the US response to Syrian refugees in context: it's pitifully small
The US has resettled fewer than 0.05 percent of all Syrian refugees.
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November 18, 2015
Mayor uses Japanese internment camps to defend his rejection of Syrian refugees
As in, he says internment was a good thing.
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November 18, 2015
The US used to accept a lot of refugees. This chart shows what happened.
Where do refugees in the US come from?
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November 18, 2015
How one state is already keeping out Syrian refugees
For the nonprofit organizations in charge of helping refugees settle in the US, life is about to get a lot harder.
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November 17, 2015
Here's what GOP governors can do to try to keep refugees out of their states
They can't prevent refugees from entering, but they can make it a lot harder for them to learn English and get jobs.
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November 16, 2015
Is Mike Huckabee right that refugees from hot countries hate Minnesota? An investigation.
The results might actually surprise you.
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November 16, 2015
The US is so paranoid about Syrian refugees that it’s letting barely any in
Refugees aren't just slipping into the US. Screening takes two years, and it's nearly impossible for people to pass.
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October 2, 2015
German "escape helpers" are running an underground railroad for Syrian refugees
Ordinary Germans are taking Europe's worst immigration crisis into their own hands — and facing imprisonment.
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October 1, 2015
Humans of New York shifts focus to the horrific journeys of Syrian refugees and migrants
4 million people have fled Syria, and 7 million remain internally displaced.
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September 18, 2015
The right to asylum: Why Europe has to take in people fleeing persecution
It's not just a nice thing to do — it's a matter of national and international law. Here's how it works.
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September 14, 2015
Europe, facing worst refugee crisis since WWII, adopts bold “do basically nothing” plan
What happens when the interior ministers of every EU country join together to find a solution to a pressing crisis? Not a lot, as it turns out.
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September 14, 2015
Why Germany just closed its borders to refugees
It's a total 180-degree turn from Angela Merkel's previous position. But there's a reason for it.
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September 14, 2015
Migrant vs. refugee: what the terms mean, and why they matter
Whether people say Europe is facing a "refugee crisis" or a "migrant crisis" tends to depend on how they feel about the people who are coming.
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September 11, 2015
The horrifying video of a Hungarian journalist tripping Syrian refugees, explained
One of the most horrifying videos to come out of the refugee crisis — and what it tells us.