Where will all these sciolistic refugees from woke America go if that largesse dries up?
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Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
Yet opportunities like ours are vulnerable to political headwinds and are no longer available to refugees from around the world whose lives remain in limbo.
And days after Mullin was sworn in, the Department of Homeland Security paused the purchase of new warehouses intended to house immigrants.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
City staff plan to bring back a report next month on what the city has already done with regards to protecting and communicating with immigrants in Naperville and future steps to increase that communication and trust.
In the ‘70s and ‘80s, large numbers of Laotian and Hmong emigrants arrived, fleeing the persecution that followed the Vietnam War.
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David Farley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Mar. 2026
The book looked at the world of Bad Bridgets, a swath of Irish women emigrants that were deemed troublemakers, noting that for a time Irish women outnumbered Irish men in prison.
Flights in and out of the Middle East came to a near-complete stop, stranding residents, expatriates, and tourists alike, even as Iran struck the region’s most crowded cities and luxury hotels.
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Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
The first question treats the UAE as a lifestyle destination for expatriates and a parking lot for sovereign capital.
And in South Florida groups have stepped in to support migrants navigating complicated immigration processes, from deportation to self-deportation, often filling gaps left by government systems.
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Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
The access comes after a federal judge earlier this week allowed clergy members from the Chicago area to minister to migrants in the facility during Holy Week and Easter.
Drawing at least in part on information from Chalker’s defectors, the Pentagon constructed life-size underground facsimiles of Iranian nuclear facilities where the scientists had worked, attempting to duplicate even the thickness of the walls.
—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
Parties have mostly voted in blocks on major issues in recent years, with small numbers of defectors increasingly rare.
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