Refugees

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October 31, 2025
The Trump administration’s move to favor the country’s white minority sparks backlash and accusations of racial bias.
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May 12, 2025
The group, which included families and small children, was due to arrive at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on Monday…
May 12, 2025
The South Africans' applications are being fast-tracked by the U.S. after President Donald Trump announced the relocation program.
December 26, 2023
A Biden administrative rule change could help a man bring his nieces to the United State from Africa, where they're…
March 29, 2023
The blankets were made as gifts for refugees to welcome them to the community as part of the national Welcome…
December 20, 2022
Judges at Britain’s High Court say the U.K. government’s controversial plan to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda…
July 3, 2022
Humanitarian workers on the ground tell theGrio that the treatment of African migrants at the border is a part of…
February 5, 2022
Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe moved to Brazil in 2011 from his native Bunia, capital of Congo’s northeastern Ituri province, in 2011.
October 3, 2021
It took place two days after a massive crackdown on migrants in a western Libyan town that resulted in the…
September 18, 2021
The White House plans to return Haitian migrants from a Texas border city with flights to Haiti starting Sunday, an…
August 22, 2021
After arriving at Dulles International Airport Friday night, refugees spent the night at Northern Virginia Community College.
May 4, 2021
President Joe Biden formally raised the nation’s cap on refugee admissions to 62,500 this year, weeks after facing bipartisan blowback.
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October 1, 2020
Trump's false ad alleged that Joe Biden would increase the number of refugees arriving from Syria, Somalia and Yemen by…
September 5, 2020
Lavi created group chats on WhatsApp in Swahili and some of the other six languages he knows to ensure parents…
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July 27, 2020
Edafe Okporo ounces the first and only shelter for asylum-seekers and refugees in New York City. The shelter specializes in…
"Close The Camps" Protests Held Across The Country To Voice Opposition To Migrant Detention Facilities
July 24, 2020
A federal court in Canada rules that an asylum agreement with the United States is invalid due to how America…
Synobia Reckley pauses on a wet mattress as her husband Dexter Edwards consoles her amid the remains of their home destroyed by Hurricane Dorian in Rocky Creek East End, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019. The couple married two days after Hurricane Mathew hit in 2016 but did not do serious damage. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) thegrio.com
September 24, 2019
A good hearted Floridian wanted to help some people who were stricken by the devastation of Hurricane Dorian, but his…
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April 2, 2018
After scrapping a plan to deport thousands of migrants from African nations, Israel Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suspended a deal…
December 26, 2015
As President Obama enters his eighth and final year in the White House, 2016 is destined to be his blackest…
November 24, 2015
While some public officials would have you think Syrian refugees are a national threat, the mayor of Dallas couldn't disagree…