refugee
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Half were filed in Tapachula, in Mexico's far south on the Guatemala border where tens of thousands remain stranded awaiting refugee status.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
International options also abound, including It’s Pho Time and Bethlehem Restaurant & Grocery, reflecting Roanoke’s designation as a city for refugee resettlement in Virginia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Sudarshan Pyakurel, a Columbus resident and Hindu Bhutanese refugee, wrote a column for the Columbus Dispatch back in January where he called out Ramaswamy over that.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026
Golodryga, who immigrated to the U.S. as a refugee from the Soviet Union in 1980, is the co-author of a young adult novel, “Don’t Feed the Lion,” which dealt with antisemitism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
But if not that, then the fly who is an adventurer of new lands and not a refugee.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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"This is a very sensitive issue for us, since we want to give dignity to human beings, to migrants, to refugees," he added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
The ma’abarot housed many of the approximately 650,000 Jewish immigrants and refugees who arrived from across the Arab world in the years following Israeli independence in 1948.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
But the organization, like many similarly focused humanitarian groups, is fighting for its survival amid a global backlash against refugees and migrants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Her family arrived in the county as Jewish refugees from Germany in the 1930s, escaping the tyranny of the Nazis.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
In the air above, Miss Sarah and Miss Rose carried a large basket of additional refugees between them as they flapped to the shore.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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