While Colombia, Germany and Turkey hosted more than 2 million refugees each, the majority live in low- to middle-income countries.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
11 June 2026
McLean Presbyterian Church, where my wife and I attend, set up a program to assist Afghan refugees in the immediate aftermath of the American withdrawal in 2021.
The money raised is not set to go into the state’s Medi-Cal funding but instead into the general fund, infuriating advocates who note Newsom’s budget maintains rollbacks to health insurance for undocumented immigrants, low-income elderly Californians and other vulnerable populations.
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Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
11 June 2026
School officials have linked the dramatic decline to fewer newly arriving immigrants from other countries, declining birth rates, and families leaving for more affordable places.
Tran is at the Garden Grove meeting, one of many who speak to city officials to express frustration with how evacuations — and evacuees — were handled.
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Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
2 June 2026
The Red Cross has set up an overnight shelter for evacuees, including pets, at the county’s Spring Valley Community Center at 8735 Jamacha Blvd.
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Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 June 2026
Perhaps as important as Morocco’s investment in nurturing domestic talent has been its improved efforts to scout and court eligible international talent —often the descendants of emigrants who have learned the game in world-class competitive environs elsewhere.
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Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
12 June 2026
Between 1854 and 1891, the fort protected emigrants, mail coaches, freight wagons, and travelers along the Trans-Pecos stretch of the San Antonio–El Paso Road and Chihuahua Trail.
Its airports have remained operational, its economy benefited from a larger citizen population (rather than relying on expatriates), and Tehran has been more cautious in confronting the kingdom directly.
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Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
4 June 2026
Investors, executives, and expatriates—some of whom fled—felt vulnerable and uncertain.
Countries with large populations of Venezuelan migrants, including Peru and Colombia, have accused the group of being behind a spree of violence in the region.
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Will Weissert,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2026
The Canary Islands have long been a stepping stone for migrants trying to reach Europe from West Africa and Morocco.
Disclosure Day, based on an original story by Spielberg, centers on a decades-long government conspiracy to cover up the existence of alien life, and the group of defectors intent on releasing that intel to the public.
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Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 June 2026
Heck, our homegrown liberal media and the city of San Francisco even celebrated Olympic defectors like Eileen Gu, who was paid by the Chinese Communist Party to compete for them in the 2026 Winter Olympics.
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