VIDEO: Refugees Fleeing ISIS Have Nowhere To Go

“I just want to go home, but if Iraq doesn’t want us to go home then let us go somewhere else, don’t keep us here as refugees,” an Iraqi Christian teen says.

Matthew Vickery
Sheren Khalel
By Matthew Vickery
And Sheren Khalel
Iraq

ERBIL, Iraq --- The Khazir refugee camp was bursting at its seams early last week. Over 5,000 people had sought refuge there, with around 20 new families turned away every day. The crowded camp was hastily set up in the aftermath of ISIS ' sweeping victory over Mosul at the start of June and the sudden exodus of residents from the city fearing

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US Communities Diverge On Child Migrant Response

Gina Perkins of Grand Prairie, Texas, left a message protesting the use of a vacant school building as a shelter. “I vehemently oppose providing anything but a ticket home to these illegals,” she said.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Immigration Overload Community Help

DALLAS — As thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children have poured into South Texas, community leaders from Dallas to Los Angeles to Syracuse, N.Y., have offered to set up temporary shelters to relieve the Army bases, holding cells and converted warehouses at the border. The outreach offers stand in sharp contrast to other places around the

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Border Crisis Reflects Consequences Of Good Intentions

Hoping to protect child sex trafficking victims, the Bush administration required hearings for underage migrants, but it’s created a backlog and an increasingly complex crisis.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
Immigration Overload-Nogales

The crisis unfolding on the Mexican-American border is growing increasingly complex in terms of both human and political costs, with at least 57,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America having crossed the border illegally since October and with that number likely to exceed 90,000 by the end of the year. With space to house the migrants in

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Local Sheriff Stirs Up Anti-Immgration Protesters In Arizona

“We are not going to tolerate illegals forced upon us,” protester Loren Woods said.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Fred Puckett

ORACLE, Ariz.  — Protesters waved "Return to Sender" signs, shoved a group of mariachi musicians and waited for a bus of immigrant children that the local sheriff told them would arrive. At one point, they briefly halted a bus before realizing it was carrying children from a YMCA. The bus of Central American children never arrived, ending a day

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Report: Promoting Refugees’ Self-Reliance Offers New Model For Aid

Refugees have vibrant economies that “thrive below the radar.” They aren’t necessarily the aid-reliant burden popular myth would make them out to be.

Matthew Heller
By Matthew Heller
Refugees

LOS ANGELES --- Most of the more than 65,500 refugees in the camps of the Adjumani district of northern Uganda survive on two bowls of porridge a day and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has reported severe shortages of water, sanitation and health services. “Life here is not easy,” David Aliar, a Red Cross volunteer from

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UN Warns Of Serious Threat In Syria Refugee Crisis

There are now 2.9 million Syrian refugees registered in the region, with 100,000 more added each month.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) — The spiraling refugee crisis from Syria's civil war could pose a serious threat to Lebanon's security and destabilize the entire region unless donors quickly provide the unfunded 70 percent of the $3.74 billion needed for emergency needs, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said Thursday. The estimate of how much

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