refugee
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Three days after the Sept. 11 attacks, I walked into my office at an Episcopalian refugee resettlement organization in New Haven, Conn. There sat five females colleagues with their heads covered in hijabs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Hung Cao was born in Vietnam and resettled as a refugee in the United States in 1975.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
El-Khawas was a Palestinian refugee from the Rashidieh Camp in Lebanon, the Palestinian embassy previously said.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
She lived with partisans in the nearby forest for months, spent years with her husband in an Italian refugee camp and arrived in the United States in 1949 to start life over again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
It looked like a refugee from the tropics, utterly out of place in this green and ferny wood.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
The administration will seek feedback on whether other immigrants with temporary legal statuses, such as refugees or those with work or student visas, should be included in the count or not.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
In the last decade Germany has sheltered millions of refugees, mainly from Syria and other troubled countries in the Middle East.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Many of the people in the group claim to be refugees from the DRC.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
More than 300,000 Haitian refugees living in the U.S. lost temporary protective status in July and are subject to deportation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Still, a stream of refugees made their way to Yamagata, the prefecture west of Fukushima, where they would sleep on floors in crowded gymnasiums and municipal buildings.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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