syrian refugee family in seattle
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"A Syrian Refugee Family Adjusts To Life In Seattle05:31XCopy the code below to embed the WBUR audio player on your site<iframe width=""100%"" height=""124"" scrolling=""no"" frameborder=""no"" src=""https://player.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/06/30/syrian-refugees-seattle""></iframe>Copy embed code" The Alhamdan family was among the first Syrian refugee families to arrive in Seattle, after fleeing the civil war in their home country. The Alhamdan family was among the first Syrian refugee families to arrive in Seattle, after fleeing the civil war in their home country. Reporter Liz Jones of Here & Now contributor KUOW has been following the family since its arrival. She checked in recently to see how family members are settling in to life in America. Read more on this story via KUOW
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Obama Increases Number of Syrian Refugees for U.S. Resettlement to 10,000 WASHINGTON — President Obama, under increasing pressure to demonstrate that the United States is joining European nations in the effort to resettle Syrian refugees, has told his administration to take in at least 10,000 displaced Syrians over the next year.
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- In recent years, the number of Syrian refugees resettled in the United States grew rapidly: from 31 in 2012 to 1,682 in 2015. As of mid-2015, UNHCR had referred more than 15,000 Syrian refugees to the United States for resettlement, who are being screened to determine their eligibility.
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- More than 11,000 Icelanders have offered to take Syrian refugees into their homes, after their government said it would accept only 50 people this year.
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The Desperate Struggle for Home at the U.N.âs Largest Syrian Refugee Camp Christiane Amanpour interviews Paul Stromberg, an official with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), at the UNHCR registration center in Amman, Jordan. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.
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U.S. to greatly expand resettlement for Syrian refugees But officials said it would result in thousands of Syrian resettlements after years of double-or triple-digit numbers. Most Syrian refugees considered candidates for U.S. residency have been living in refugee camps or elsewhere outside Syria for a year or much longer.
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Haunting portraits of Syria's child refugees that everyone should see The immeasurable suffering of so many people is impossible to grasp. But in an effort to humanize those numbers, Associated Press photographer Muhammed Muheisen visited Syrian refugee camps in Jordan. In an effort to capture the life of refugees, Muheisen took a series of portraits of the displaced children of Syria.
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- Local family reacts to Syrian chemical attack. The chemical weapons attack that reportedly killed dozens of people in the Middle Eastern country of Syria may be thousands of miles away from the Valley, but members of one local family are in mourning, as a result. FOX 10's Stefania Okolie reports.
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Syrian refugees face miserable winter in Lebanon Syria's refugee crisis – A Syrian girl stands with her mother in a makeshift tent as they wait to enter an official refugee camp at the Oncupinar border gate in Kilis, Turkey, in September 2013.
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- We have to have a very, very thorough vetting process, King said on CNN. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees is responsible for selecting refugees deemed eligible for resettlement and spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said it has submitted more than 16,300 Syrian refugees for resettlement in the United States.
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- The State Department has cited Washington's vetting process as a crucial but complicating factor for Syrians seeking entry. Since the start of the Syrian war in 2011, Washington has accepted 1,500 Syrian refugees, most of them this year, and the State Department expects 300 more by October.
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- (The Washington Post) President Obama has directed the U.S. government to accept at least 10,000 refugees from Syria in the next fiscal year, White House press secretary Josh Earnest announced Thursday, a six-fold increase over the number admitted this year to the United States.
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- A movement to block the potential resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state of Montana took to the steps of the Capitol for a rally on Monday. It was the second high-profile event to voice such opposition within a week.
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Downtown Transit Center Moves Forward with Invitation to Bid Downtown Transit Center Moves Forward with Invitation to Bid. INDIANAPOLIS (July 3, 2014) – IndyGo’s Invitation for Bid process for the general contractor of the Downtown Transit Center is now open. The Downtown Transit Center is a nearly $20 million project to enhance the public transit network in Indianapolis.
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Trumpâs New Ban Leaves Few Spots for Refugees, Even the Hunted “Look,” said Veronica, 9, showing off the creation to her aunt. “That’s how Mamá ended up.”. For more than a year, Veronica and her sister have been in hiding here in El Salvador, hoping to receive refugee status in the United States.
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The Syrian Refugee Crisis isNot Our Problem The Saudis, Jordanians and Turks have their own problems. They don’t want to import the Syrian Civil War into their own borders. Only Western countries are stupid enough to do that. The Syrian refugee crisis is a voluntary crisis.
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- His family of eight, fled their home in Daraa, Syria four years ago and spent three years navigating the refugee process in Jordan before being sent the U.S. less The youngest member of the Alhamdan family, Ahmad, 7, watches TV at their home in West Seattle, Feb. 14, 2017.
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Fleeing for Safety The US has a strong commitment to protecting refugees and Western Washington is one of the top regions in the country for receiving and resettling these newcomers. Serving the Displaced. World Relief Seattle has come alongside refugee families since 1979, providing support and basic orientation through their first months of transition. Volunteers and staff welcome these vulnerable families from the moment they arrive at SeaTac airport.
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Iraq/Jordan/Turkey: Syrians Blocked from Fleeing War © 2013 Reuters. Turkish soldiers with armored vehicles guard the entrance of Apaydin refugee camp in Hatay province, on the Turkish-Syrian border on May 12, 2013. (Hatay) – Iraqi, Jordanian, and Turkish border guards are pushing back tens of thousands of people trying to flee Syria.Iraq, Jordan, and Turkey risk turning Syria into an open-air prison for tens of thousands of Syrians unable to escape the carnage in their country,” Simpson said.
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Haunting portraits of Syria's child refugees that everyone should see But as of the end of 2014, the United Nations estimated that almost half of Syria's civilian population had been uprooted by the conflict with over 3 million Syrians becoming refugees and a further 6.5 million having become internally displaced people.
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- Jordan formally opens Azraq refugee camp, for Syrian refugees, in the desert east of the capital, Amman. UNHCR will help to run the camp, which has room for more than 100,000 refugees and was built to ease pressure on the […]
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Syria: The story of the conflict More than 4.5 million people have fled Syria since the start of the conflict, most of them women and children. Neighbouring Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey have struggled to cope with one of the largest refugee exoduses in recent history.
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- PRESS PHOTO The Kurdish Globe We sincerely congratulate our Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syriac sisters and brothers in Kurdistan, Iraq and all over the world, thousands of whose families have been forced leave their places of origin and live in refugee camps, on the occasion of the Assyrian and Babylonian New Year and the Akito feasts.
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- Dohuk, Iraq: She's only four years old, but Syrian refugee Magi can't shake off the sounds and images of war that forced her family to flee the embattled northern city of Aleppo and seek shelter in northern Iraq. Jerome Seregni, international UN Volunteer, assisting with food and non-food items distribution to refugees.
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- And lost her kids. Afghan refugee Basira Haidari defended herself against her husband’s violence in their Arden Arcade, California, home. She then urged other Afghan women to take a stand against domestic violence, bringing to light often hidden, but culturally sanctioned domestic abuse among some Afghan refugees.
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