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UN Pushes For Fleeing Central Americans To Be Treated As Refugees | VIDEO

 

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — United Nations officials are pushing for many of the Central Americans fleeing to the U.S. to be treated as refugees displaced by armed conflict, a designation meant to increase pressure on the United States and Mexico…

 

The easiest way to have good records of who is entering and exiting the United States is to have easy ways of legal immigration. – Chris Wilson, Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center @Chris_E_Wilson

 

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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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Children’s Books on the Refugee Experience Are Crucial Reading

 

While facts and figures are useful to understand the scale of the refugee problem, for most people it’s the personal angle that they best relate to. But this personal angle, and the sympathy and understanding that it promotes, is hard to come by, especially in young children.

Children’s literature that focuses on the refugee experience can provide just that. Books such as Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah and The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo focus on the individual’s story. They offer a voice to descriptions of suffering and resilience in the face of the huge challenges that fleeing for safety and seeking asylum bring

 

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Source: www.theepochtimes.com

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Cities of origin of unaccompanied children

 

Here is an infographic by the Department of Homeland Security showing the cities of origin of unaccompanied children picked up by Border Patrol from January 1 through May 14.

 

Source: soboco.org

 

I’ve been listening to all the reports on this topic and Antonio Gonzalez was on the Tavis Smiley Show explaining that U.S. policies have led to this crisis including the War on Drugs that extends to Central America. The War on Drugs is really a war on people.

 

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Germany’s Refugee Policy Tested By New Arrivals

Germany’s Refugee Policy Tested By New Arrivals : Parallels : NPR. As many as 5,000 Syrian refugees are after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government agreed to a U.N. request to host them. But they a…

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

It’s easy for the U.S. to highlight how groups in other countries are not welcoming refugees – but have you heard the U.S. news speak about the U.S. welcoming refugees at all lately?

 

And the first comment on the NPR site is a good reminder to balance the message.

 

@getgln

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