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MENS REA”: On January 16, 1944, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and one of his deputies, Randolph Paul, personally visited the President Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to coerce him to finally act and do something to help refugees escaping The Holocaust. More diplomatic efforts had failed, so Morgenthau's approach strengthened. The report brought to the President reveals a desperate and necessary act to coerce a response from an administration that was systematically and overtly preventing both private and official help for the victims escaping Hitler. The report documents a pattern of attempts by the State Department to obstruct rescue opportunities and block the flow of Holocaust information to the United States. Morgenthau warned that the refugee issue had become “a boiling pot on [Capitol] Hill,” and Congress was likely to pass the rescue resolution if faced with a White House unwilling to act. Roosevelt understood the deep implications and pre-empted Congress by establishing the War Refugee Board. The result was “Executive Order 9417” creating the War Refugee Board, issued on January 22, 1944. – A.E. Samaan	added by AlvaroSiman 1 year ago
It’s a lot of work involved in sponsoring a refugee – finding schools, helping them find affordable housing, getting their kids signed up for school, helping them find jobs, showing them where the pharmacy is, what bus to take. It’s a lot more than what the average American can do. And so we think that providing a group of five or more Americans is more likely to be successful. – Valls Noyes	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They are obviously targeting Muslim men, and they are happening right here in our own refugee community. – Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Dobbs ruling has created an untenable and dangerous situation for pregnant girls in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, many of whom have fled from extreme violence and abuse, it is critical that The Biden administration take a stand to protect the basic health of these girls by issuing clear guidance ensuring access to abortion services for girls, regardless of what state they happen to be placed in. – Neha Desai	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you give a lift to a refugee at the Ukrainian border you are a hero. If you do it at the Belarus border you are a smuggler and could end up in jail for eight years. – Natalia Gebert	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There were a lot of scattered examples of humanity, but overall it was very unpleasant because you are a refugee. – George Gelber	Found on CNN 1 year ago
UNHCR remains firmly opposed to arrangements that seek to transfer refugees and asylum-seekers to third countries in the absence of sufficient safeguards and standards. Such arrangements simply shift asylum responsibilities, evade international obligations, and are contrary to the letter and spirit of the Refugee Convention. – Gillian Triggs	Found on CNN 2 years ago
So the embassy in Ukraine is closed because of the war, so they're not able to get visas currently and they're not able to come over to the United States, so what I'm asking for is not a refugee status, not bringing massive amounts of people over to United States. – Diana Ewald	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They're not seeking asylum, they're just wanting to live. So they want to have the option to bring their family over so that they can stay in their homes, not seek asylum, not have refugee status, but simply wait it out so that they can survive and live. – Diana Ewald	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I have empathy for any refugee, regardless of background, religion, politics, because I've lived in refugee camps, they suck. They're horrible. You've got rats, you've got disease, and I would not want anyone to go through it. – Quan Nguyen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
United States have always welcomed refugees, even if sometimes The US refugee resettlement process takes a while to get here. – Wendy Sherman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There have been over 1 million children — this is just children — that are in refugee status right now, every bit we can do helps and we appreciate you. – Ashton Kutcher	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
At the beginning the people who came here were running away in panic from the war they saw in the media and that they heard about. Now we find there are people escaping from bombs, this is a completely different kind of refugee. They are afraid of everything. They sit in their jackets. Children are scared, they don’t want to play, their mothers have such empty eyes. – Dorota Zawadzka	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It seems there is no end to the price that they are willing to pay to avoid having United States produce United States own energy, the idea that we're reopening relationships with Maduro, who has put the Venezuelan people through unbelievable suffering, where a high percentage have fled the country and are living in refugee camps — that we would have turned to get oil from him — just shows you the extreme degree to which they’re willing to go to do anything but have the United States produce its own energy. – William Barr	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is probably the very first refugee crisis in Europe in which no refugee camps have been set up. – Marek Magierowski	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I have worked in refugee emergencies for almost 40 years, and rarely have I seen an exodus as rapid as this one. – Michael Ryan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While we witness the bravery of the people of the country that she was born in we're also witness to the needs of those who have chosen safety. We're raising funds to support a relief effort that will have immediate impact and supply much-needed refugee and humanitarian aid in the area. The principal challenge right now is logistics. We need to get housing, and we need to get supplies and resources into the area. – Ashton Kutcher	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Very quickly, she was covering some of the refugee crises from North Africa, going across the sea to Europe and America. – Nate Carlisle	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Title 42 order has no basis in public health and the CDC is allowing itself to be used to justify mass expulsions of asylum seekers in violation of Robyn Barnard and international refugee law to harm's way, this policy of expelling asylum seekers is a stain on Robyn Barnard history and it is now part of the President and Vice President's legacy. – Robyn Barnard	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I gave my life to this country for 10 and a half years, I put my life on the line for the ideals of America, the America that I got used to, the America that I was proud to put my life on the line and I came here legally as a refugee. – Sergeant Abdirahman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
[Radislav Blagojevich] spent four years in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp during the war for fighting on the side of the Allies, and then was in a refugee camp for three years, waiting for the chance to hopefully have the United States Congress-- that one day, his youngest son would become a member of-- pass a law called the Displaced Persons Act, that permitted my father and millions of others like him, with these long and hard-to-pronounce last names a chance to come to America, to pursue freedom and opportunity. – Rod Blagojevich	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I mean, it's not clear that to my information that someone in that case is actually a refugee, they may have sought asylum and been found not to be a refugee and have chosen not to return. – Scott Morrison	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If the world community, the leaders of powerful states, and international organizations do not take bold decisions, the ever-threatening presence of vulnerable refugee women and children will continue to grow globally, together we must shake the rocks and the walls against the intransigence of the powerful of the Earth. – Archbishop Ieronymos	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
At far-right conferences people ask, ‘When do we get to use the guns?’ americans are at each other’s throats, spun up by the sick stuff they see on social media. Every day some random hyper-local story about a migrant from Haiti or a refugee from Afghanistan is blown out of proportion into some doomsday, international story about the death of White America’s way of life. – Brian Stelter	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

MENS REA”: On January 16, 1944, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and one of his deputies, Randolph Paul, personally visited the President Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to coerce him to finally act and do something to help refugees escaping The Holocaust. More diplomatic efforts had failed, so Morgenthau's approach strengthened. The report brought to the President reveals a desperate and necessary act to coerce a response from an administration that was systematically and overtly preventing both private and official help for the victims escaping Hitler. The report documents a pattern of attempts by the State Department to obstruct rescue opportunities and block the flow of Holocaust information to the United States. Morgenthau warned that the refugee issue had become “a boiling pot on [Capitol] Hill,” and Congress was likely to pass the rescue resolution if faced with a White House unwilling to act. Roosevelt understood the deep implications and pre-empted Congress by establishing the War Refugee Board. The result was “Executive Order 9417” creating the War Refugee Board, issued on January 22, 1944.

– A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

It’s a lot of work involved in sponsoring a refugee – finding schools, helping them find affordable housing, getting their kids signed up for school, helping them find jobs, showing them where the pharmacy is, what bus to take. It’s a lot more than what the average American can do. And so we think that providing a group of five or more Americans is more likely to be successful.

– Valls Noyes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They are obviously targeting Muslim men, and they are happening right here in our own refugee community.

– Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Dobbs ruling has created an untenable and dangerous situation for pregnant girls in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, many of whom have fled from extreme violence and abuse, it is critical that The Biden administration take a stand to protect the basic health of these girls by issuing clear guidance ensuring access to abortion services for girls, regardless of what state they happen to be placed in.

– Neha Desai

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you give a lift to a refugee at the Ukrainian border you are a hero. If you do it at the Belarus border you are a smuggler and could end up in jail for eight years.

– Natalia Gebert

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There were a lot of scattered examples of humanity, but overall it was very unpleasant because you are a refugee.

– George Gelber

Found on CNN
1 year ago

UNHCR remains firmly opposed to arrangements that seek to transfer refugees and asylum-seekers to third countries in the absence of sufficient safeguards and standards. Such arrangements simply shift asylum responsibilities, evade international obligations, and are contrary to the letter and spirit of the Refugee Convention.

– Gillian Triggs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So the embassy in Ukraine is closed because of the war, so they're not able to get visas currently and they're not able to come over to the United States, so what I'm asking for is not a refugee status, not bringing massive amounts of people over to United States.

– Diana Ewald

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They're not seeking asylum, they're just wanting to live. So they want to have the option to bring their family over so that they can stay in their homes, not seek asylum, not have refugee status, but simply wait it out so that they can survive and live.

– Diana Ewald

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I have empathy for any refugee, regardless of background, religion, politics, because I've lived in refugee camps, they suck. They're horrible. You've got rats, you've got disease, and I would not want anyone to go through it.

– Quan Nguyen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

United States have always welcomed refugees, even if sometimes The US refugee resettlement process takes a while to get here.

– Wendy Sherman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There have been over 1 million children — this is just children — that are in refugee status right now, every bit we can do helps and we appreciate you.

– Ashton Kutcher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At the beginning the people who came here were running away in panic from the war they saw in the media and that they heard about. Now we find there are people escaping from bombs, this is a completely different kind of refugee. They are afraid of everything. They sit in their jackets. Children are scared, they don’t want to play, their mothers have such empty eyes.

– Dorota Zawadzka

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It seems there is no end to the price that they are willing to pay to avoid having United States produce United States own energy, the idea that we're reopening relationships with Maduro, who has put the Venezuelan people through unbelievable suffering, where a high percentage have fled the country and are living in refugee camps — that we would have turned to get oil from him — just shows you the extreme degree to which they’re willing to go to do anything but have the United States produce its own energy.

– William Barr

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is probably the very first refugee crisis in Europe in which no refugee camps have been set up.

– Marek Magierowski

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I have worked in refugee emergencies for almost 40 years, and rarely have I seen an exodus as rapid as this one.

– Michael Ryan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While we witness the bravery of the people of the country that she was born in we're also witness to the needs of those who have chosen safety. We're raising funds to support a relief effort that will have immediate impact and supply much-needed refugee and humanitarian aid in the area. The principal challenge right now is logistics. We need to get housing, and we need to get supplies and resources into the area.

– Ashton Kutcher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Very quickly, she was covering some of the refugee crises from North Africa, going across the sea to Europe and America.

– Nate Carlisle

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Title 42 order has no basis in public health and the CDC is allowing itself to be used to justify mass expulsions of asylum seekers in violation of Robyn Barnard and international refugee law to harm's way, this policy of expelling asylum seekers is a stain on Robyn Barnard history and it is now part of the President and Vice President's legacy.

– Robyn Barnard

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I gave my life to this country for 10 and a half years, I put my life on the line for the ideals of America, the America that I got used to, the America that I was proud to put my life on the line and I came here legally as a refugee.

– Sergeant Abdirahman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[Radislav Blagojevich] spent four years in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp during the war for fighting on the side of the Allies, and then was in a refugee camp for three years, waiting for the chance to hopefully have the United States Congress-- that one day, his youngest son would become a member of-- pass a law called the Displaced Persons Act, that permitted my father and millions of others like him, with these long and hard-to-pronounce last names a chance to come to America, to pursue freedom and opportunity.

– Rod Blagojevich

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I mean, it's not clear that to my information that someone in that case is actually a refugee, they may have sought asylum and been found not to be a refugee and have chosen not to return.

– Scott Morrison

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If the world community, the leaders of powerful states, and international organizations do not take bold decisions, the ever-threatening presence of vulnerable refugee women and children will continue to grow globally, together we must shake the rocks and the walls against the intransigence of the powerful of the Earth.

– Archbishop Ieronymos

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At far-right conferences people ask, ‘When do we get to use the guns?’ americans are at each other’s throats, spun up by the sick stuff they see on social media. Every day some random hyper-local story about a migrant from Haiti or a refugee from Afghanistan is blown out of proportion into some doomsday, international story about the death of White America’s way of life.

– Brian Stelter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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