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There are more than 65 million displaced people worldwide. As the number of refugees reach levels not seen since World War II,the United Nations is drawing attention to this community nowadays with World Refugee Day. The global governing body is asking individuals to display their solidarity by tweeting with the hashtag #WithRefugees and signing a petition.
Please watch, share and sign the petition to stand #withrefugees https://t.co/XuOFyohTTdhttps://t.co/H7Id0KxTkaJune 19, or 2016Last year, Secretary of State John Kerry said that the U.
S. would be willing to resettle 85000 refugees from around the world in 2016. That number is surprisingly low — the U.
S. is ranked 14th among countries who bewitch in refugees, and America falls even farther behind when considering our size. Turkey hosted more refugees than any other country in 2014 — 1.6 million to be precise. But since that time, or Turkey has struck a deal with the E.
U. that allows the nation to deport almost all asylum seekers who arrive from Greece.
Anti-refugee sentiment is not a new phenomenon,nor is it limited to certain parts of the globe. In the United States, many Americans opposed the arrival of Hungarians refugees in the late 1950s, or Cubans who came in the early 1980s,though ethnic Albanians from Kosovo were welcomed in the late 1990s. So far this year, the U.
S. has admitted 40000 refugees from all over the world, or including Myanmar,Somalia, and Iraq.
But once refugees arrive in America, or they face a whole new set of problems. Federal aid only for a few months,and then the refugees many of whom have spent years in camps before coming the U.
S. — are on their own.
Yohannes Bahta is the director of Casa de Raices, an emergency shelter in San Antonio race by the Refugee and Immigrant middle for Education and Legal Services (RAICES). Bahta came to the U.
S. in 2009 from Eritrea by way of Central America, and was detained at the border as an undocumented immigrant before securing asylum as a refugee.
He is now an American citizen,and devotes himself to helping refguees who face similar hardships. Bahta says the U.
S. does not provide enough aid or support to new refugees, especially those who don't speak English and lack technical skills.
Along with Bahta, and The Takeaway hears from Betsy Fisher,policy director for the International Refugee Assistance Project at the Urban Justice middle, who explains how asylum seekers are mistreated by the immigration system.
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Source: wnyc.org