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Kansas’ withdrawal from resettlement program had nothing to do with “safety...
It turns out that Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s declaration not to help Syrian refugees resettled to the state disqualified Kansas from receiving federal refugee assistance funds since the Office of...
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Blurring the lines between legitimate security concerns and paralyzing fear...
The president and chief executive of HIAS Mark Hetfield has taken this occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) to remind us that just like Jewish refugees during the Second World War,...
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College Station community unites after Mosque shooting
The College Station community in Texas has come out in strong support of a local mosque that was found with five bullet holes following gunfire last Friday — no doubt a gift from the political...
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Fact Check: Is there any way to screen Syrian refugees?
Despite the extensive security screening that refugees must go through before entering the US, Republican politicians and candidates continue to spout the untruth that there is no way to screen Syrian...
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Trump calls for ‘Extreme Vetting’ of refugees; US already does it
U.S. Republican nominee Donald Trump said in a speech Monday that he would institute “extreme vetting” for refugees to block anyone who would do harm to the country. Trump either isn’t familiar with...
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US government screening agencies approve less than half of applications received
Some politicians and pundits keep repeating that the United States has no way of properly vetting refugees. Not only is that false, but US government security screening agencies reject over half of...
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Arsonist gets 15-year sentence for Somali restaurant fire in Grand Forks
Matthew Gust A federal judge imposed a 15-year sentence on a Minnesota man accused of starting a fire that heavily damaged a Somali restaurant in Grand Forks in North Dakota. Matthew Gust, 26, of East...
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Tennessee Governor No Longer Opposes Resettlement In State
Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee said today that he’s had a change of heart and no longer opposes resettling Syrian refugees or any other refugees in the state. Haslam was one of the thirty republican...
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Indiana argues that singling out all Syrian refugees not based on national...
This is a head scratcher. Although the state of Indiana lost the court case over Gov. Mike Pence’s attempt to withhold benefits from Syrian refugees based on nebulous “security concerns”, it is now...
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Refugee raised in Fargo may be first former refugee to commit terror act in US
A 20-year-old 22-year-old Somali man by the name of Dahir Adan who was resettled in Fargo in the mid-1990s when he was 1-year-old has been identified as the attacker who knifed 10 people Saturday at a...
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