Resettlement needs set to rise to 1.4 million people in 2019, UN refugee agency reports – Europe will need to shelter almost 40 percent more people

25 June 2018 (UN News) – Close to 1.4 million people will need resettlement in countries free from war and persecution in 2019, the UN refugee agency, said on Monday, citing growing forced displacement across the globe.Resettlement – the transfer of refugees from the country where they have claimed asylum to a safe “third country” […]

Two charts demolish the notion that undocumented immigrants commit more crime – “The criminal conviction rate for legal immigrants is about 85 percent below the native-born rate”

By Christopher Ingraham 19 June 2018 (The Washington Post) – The Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies are predicated, in part, upon the notion that immigrants who are in the country illegally represent a threat to public safety.The White House, for instance, has sent out regular email blasts to reporters with alarmist accounts of crime committed […]

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