NewsRack: 'Refugees' news in 'Human Rights and Indigenous Rights-National' topic for user flenvcenter

Winnipeg's undocumented: A case for access without fear	22.6.2018	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
Karen Hamilton Krista Johnston Reports about refugees walking across the Canada-U.S. border beginning in the spring of 2017 renewed concerns about immigration policy and undocumented migrants in Winnipeg. In fact, the vast majority of migrants to Canada enter legally, through official ports of entry, and with documentation that is presented to and checked by border officials. Although walking across an international border is irregular, those who did so in 2017 were met by RCMP or Canada Border Services Agency officials, and their status as refugee claimants was both verified and documented. In short, these migrants did not enter illegally, their status as refugee claimants is legal, they are documented and their movement in Canada is tracked by border officials. But this does not mean that they have walked into all of the rights and entitlements of full Canadian citizenship. On the contrary: their status is legal but precarious, just as is the case for many of those who enter through Canada's temporary ...
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Denver DA dismisses sexual assault charges against son of former Mayor Wellington Webb	22.6.2018	Denver Post: Local
Denver District Attorney Beth McCann's office filed a motion Friday asking a judge to dismiss sexual assault charges against the son of former Mayor Wellington Webb after the alleged victim declined to testify.
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Suspected drug-intoxicated car thieves drive into drainage ditch	22.6.2018	Headlines: All Headlines
The sight of a police car triggers different emotions depending on who you are and what you are doing.
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Denver federal jury finds Uzbekistan refugee guilty of aiding terror group	22.6.2018	Denver Post: Local
An Uzbekistan refugee was found guilty Thursday of three counts of aiding a terrorist organization after the Aurora man swore allegiance to the Islamic Jihad Union and told his daughter to pray he die a martyr in a holy war.
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The place to save desperate, crying kids isn't the U.S. border. It's Honduras and Guatemala \| Will Bunch	21.6.2018	Philly.com News
With our southern border in crisis, why has there been such little talk about what prompted thousands of families to make this dangerous cross-continent trek in the first place, or America's decades-long role in provoking that chaos?
Trump’s Secretary of State Is Apparently Clueless About This Week’s News	21.6.2018	Mother Jones
As the Trump administration tries to dig itself out of the firestorm it made, separating 2,342 migrant children from their parents in just five weeks, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo decided it’d be good to celebrate the country’s legacy as safe haven for people fleeing violence and conflict. It is World Refugee Day after all. On Wednesday he released an incredibly tone-deaf statement, […]
He survived Cambodia's killing fields, only to be shot in West Philly by man with an AK-47	21.6.2018	Philly.com News
A West Philly beer deli owner is in critical but stable condition after being shot during an apparent robbery attempt outside his store May 5.
Barack Obama Rebukes Trump’s Separation of Immigrant Families	21.6.2018	Mother Jones
Former President Barack Obama used the occasion of World Refugee Day on Wednesday to come out against the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant families detained at the US border. His message posted to Facebook was eloquent but unambiguous in its criticism. He argued that empathy for immigrants is a core American value, and he […]
“The Most Dangerous and Difficult Journey:” Obama’s Head of Refugee Resettlement Explains the Border Crisis	20.6.2018	Mother Jones
At least 2,342 child migrants have been separated from their parents at the U.S. border in one month, a shocking statistic that has generated nearly nonstop media coverage in recent days. Since announcing a “zero tolerance” policy for illegal immigration in May, the Trump administration has alternated between a series of contradictory explanations for its […]
The refugees that the world barely pays attention too	20.6.2018	Minnesota Public Radio: News
They're known as 'climate refugees.' But there's not even an international definition for them, let alone recognition or protection.
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Five Years Ago, She Fled Iraq as a Refugee. Today, She’s Showcasing at Some of the World’s Hottest Restaurants.	20.6.2018	Mother Jones
If there’s one thing 16-year-old Noor Anaee has noticed about her new country, it’s that not many Americans cook. We are seated on her couch next to her mother, Muna, in the Anaees’ modest, second-floor Oakland apartment. “They order food instead of making it because they don’t have time,” Noor observes. Back in Baghdad, where […]
Youngest migrants held in 'tender age' shelters	20.6.2018	Minnesota Public Radio: News
Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three "tender age" shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned.
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A record number of people were displaced in 2017 for 5th year in a row	19.6.2018	Minnesota Public Radio: News
An average of 44,000 people were displaced every day, or one person every two seconds, according to a United Nations report. Conflict is the biggest factor driving displacement.
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Why Italy Dares to Turn Away Refugees	19.6.2018	Wall St. Journal: Opinion
Rome is reacting to a rising problem, but to EU elites such ideas remain unthinkable.
History repeats: When America turned away refugees	9.6.2018	Philly.com News
In 1939, Ronnie Breslow of Elkins Park was an 8-year-old passenger aboard the St. Louis, the ship of 937 Jewish refugees that in flight from Nazi Germany was infamously turned away by the United States, Canada and Cuba.
White House's Hard Line on Refugees Reduces Number of North Korean Defectors	8.6.2018	Wall St. Journal: World
U.S. admission of North Korean refugees has almost ground to a halt since President Donald Trump took office because of his administration’s efforts to increase vetting of overseas arrivals.
Denver Police Department uses $240K grant to battle violent extremism	8.6.2018	Headlines: All Headlines
The Denver Police Department is using a $240,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to counter violent extremism ranging from animal rights to white supremacy.
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Refugee Syrian chef turns nocturnal in Ramadan	7.6.2018	World – The Indian Express

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Myanmar says willing to take back all Rohingya refugees	2.6.2018	World – The Indian Express

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The gap between Trudeau's rhetoric and the reality for refugees widens	1.6.2018	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
The gap between Trudeau's rhetoric and the reality for refugees widens
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