refugees

The president tried keeping a Trump era cap on refugees. It was a mistake.

His predecessor put a cap of only 15,000 that could be admitted to the country for the 2021 fiscal year.

Congress will hear legislation to end the administration's cruel practice of using confidential counseling notes against immigrants in their asylum applications.

Members close to the Office of Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) have commented on the government's plans to completely close the admissions for refuge next year.

According to estimates of the UN Refugee Agency, more than 4 million Venezuelans are living abroad after fleeing violence, insecurity and lack of food, medicine, and essential services.

The United Nations Pact to address the issue of migration has been the cause of discord in the international community, with those who want international cooperation, and those who would prefer to shut the doors at odds.

To assist refugees and migrants from Venezuela, the country will be included in the plan for the first time.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the U.S. government will not receive more than 30,000 refugees in 2019, considerably reducing the cap of 45,000 accepted during 2018.

Ilhan Omar is the new Democratic candidate for District 5 of Congress in Minnesota after winning the primaries on Tuesday, making history as the first candidate of Somali origin who came to the country as a refugee.

Some 22,858 migrants arrived in Spain in the first six months of 2018.

Between January 1 and July 29, some 22,858 migrants reached Spain, which was 750 people more than the total number of arrivals in 2017 and makes it the main arrival-by-sea country in the Mediterranean.

Now that both sides have had their bouts of deflection and denial, we must untangle the mess at the U.S.-Mexico border.

After President Donald Trump announced the suspension of measures to separate immigrant families detained at the border, attention has now focused on locating the children and evaluating the true reunification measures that the government promises to put in place.

Growing numbers of families in Central America have been forced in recent years to flee extraordinary, unchecked violence including murder, rape, abduction and forced recruitment of children into gangs. These families have been seeking protection in countries throughout the region.

Neither Italy nor Malta - the two nearest European territories - said they were willing to take in the migrants, despite doctors on the boat warning that there was only enough food and water to survive at sea for one more day.

No sooner had I hit "send" on a recent column listing examples of Democrats failing immigrants and refugees than I realized there were other instances that should have been included. 

Roxana Hernández, a Honduran immigrant who was part of the so-called Caravan of Refugees, died in ICE custody after being subjected to confinement in low temperatures.