The merits of immigration greatly outweigh the potential disadvantages.
When refugees of a military or economic war swarm into a neighboring land, immigration is a problem: as in Lebanon, which took in a million Syrians terrorized by intervention (some of it ours), and then succumbed to the dangerous spread of poverty and unemployment by turning new immigrants away; and in the U.S., where the economic trade war called
HRW: Turkey responded to fleeing Aleppo residents with live ammunition.
After a Turkish-backed rebel offensive against ISIS in Aleppo Province turned into a disaster, Turkish border troops were scrambling to keep some 30,000 refugees displaced by the ISIS counter-offensive from fleeing into Turkey, that’s getting them some serious criticism. Human Rights Watch reported on Friday that Turkish border guards responded
‘A pregnant woman came into the clinic with her two children; she was close to the border when tear gas was used, people started to run, she fell down.’
Following reports that hundreds of refugees and migrants—including women and children—were wounded on Sunday when Macedonian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at crowds on the Greek side of the border, protesters marched in the small village of Idomeni on Monday, highlighting what one human rights expert described as an "absurd humanitarian
Rights groups found evidence of U.S. Border Patrol agents stealing personal items from undocumented Mexican immigrants before deporting them.
U.S. border patrol agents have been stripping Mexican immigrants of their possessions, including large amounts of cash and their personal identification and other legal papers, before deporting them back to Mexico, according to complaints filed Wednesday by various rights groups. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and a coalition
Abdi Mohamed, a 17-year-old Somali refugee, is reportedly in a coma at an area hospital after being shot multiple times by police.
SALT LAKE CITY --- Local residents and the family of a shooting victim are demanding the release of police body camera footage that shows the wounding of a black teenager last week. Abdi Mohamed, a 17-year-old Somali refugee, was shot by police on Saturday while holding a metal broomstick. The following day, family sources told Robert Boyd, a
Analysis of recent statements made by Fox News anchors and journalists shows that the conservative news network is determined to stoke fears about refugees and gun control laws.
NEW YORK --- Less than half the “facts” broadcast on Fox News are even partially true, according to an ongoing analysis by an independent fact-checking project. Some recent lies told by on-air personalities and guests seem designed to stoke fears over the safety of refugees living in the United States and to spread untruths about American
