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Since January of 2019, the US has implemented a policy that's forced over 40,000 refugees to wait in Mexico for asylum hearings in the United States.
These refugees, many of whom are families, are trapped in some of the most dangerous cities in the world, where they're being raped, kidnapped and extorted by criminal groups.
The US government will point to the lowest asylum approval rates to argue that these people are not really refugees, when in fact, US asylum law is an obstacle course designed to make them fail.
Increasingly, I'm also meeting climate refugees.
So, it would make sense, as a start, to expand the refugee definition to include climate refugees, for example.
But those of us in a position to advocate for those changes are too busy suing our government to keep the meager legal protections that refugees enjoy under the current law.
From Australia's brutal offshore detention camps to Italy's criminalization of aid to migrants drowning in the Mediterranean, first-world countries have gone to deadly lengths to keep refugees from reaching our shores.
We need to demand that our laws respect the inherent dignity of all human beings, especially refugees seeking help at our borders, but including economic migrants and climate refugees.
We need to demand that refugees get a fair shot at seeking protection in our countries by ensuring that they have access to council and by creating independent courts that are not subject to the political whims of the president.
And in 1999, we started by responding to the issue of the housing crisis for returning refugees in Kosovo.
Today we have 20 million refugees in the world.
According to the U.N., we speak about 250 million refugees in 2050.
From your standpoint this means a great increase in climate refugees over the coming decades, and what goes along with that, which is resource wars and chaos wars, as we're seeing in Darfur.
These are the boom-and-bust refugees.
We're expecting to have upwards of 200 million refugees by the year 2020 because of climate change and political instability.
We see refugees, and we see horrible diseases.
In another effort on their part, they're actually helping and working with NGOs to ensure that people can provide housing for free for refugees.
I often talk to refugees: "Why was it that the West didn't realize that famines are caused by policies and politics, not by weather?"
Whether worn by refugees or world-changing entrepreneurs, when people are allowed the freedom to present themselves in a manner that celebrates their own unique identities, a magical thing happens.
I was an extra on this film, in the part shot at the airport in the first 15 minutes or so; I was one of the fleeing (mostly Mexican) Bangladeshi refugees running across the runways at Ryan Field in Tucson.
Reading the summary of the film (refugees from Odessa) I thought that perhaps I might learn something more about the forced migrations of modern Greeks.
We quickly figure out this will be a manipulative, sappy tale illustrating a bunch of jaded people set in their ways confronted by "nice victimized" refugees and that it will have a happy ending where the jaded people realize the error of their ways and accept these people.
It is a movie which sheds the light on the begging of the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation of Palestine but it does not show the real feelings of the people back then and how they were tricked into believing that they could return to their home soon , it does not mention the massacres committed by the Jews like Der Yassine and how they tortured and killed and destroyed the family of any Palestinian freedom fighter it lacks the credibility about the real Palestinian struggle and about anything Palestinian , however it has something about the suffering of Palestinian citizens ending up as refugees in the nearby Arab countries , the movie focuses on the story of the man in coma he is now in the present time and through his story we see the film .
The movie also suffers from an amazing lack of realism - a completely deserted beach in crowded little Hongkong, overrun by a million Chinese refugees?
This is a weak throw-together of just about everything: refugees, Croatia-Slovenia relations, globalization, sexual orientation..
Most of the film you are aboard a train headed for Berlin in 1945 among a mixture of characters from refugees to 2 gay guys and 2 nuns.
Well made documentary focusing on two Sudanese refugees who get resettled in the United States.
If you have not heard of this film, it follows two Sudanese refugees from a refugee camp in Africa to America, where they convince themselves they will find success and riches.
The havoc and violence are there though, in the backdrop, with thousands of refugees trying to get out of China This is a very moving and compelling story, full of hope and love in a tragic time, in recent history.
Worst case I-need-this-to-happen-or-we-have-no-movie scenario: if Willis' mission was to save the doctor, but she was adamant that her "people" make it out of the missionary, he would have put her on that first chopper and marched those refugees to the border without her.
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