The first plane of Syrian refugees headed for Canada touched down in the country late Thursday, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on hand to welcome the arrivals. Just a few hundred had landed, but Canada is on track to accept many, many more.
BBC Reporter Lewis Goodall: “Are you here with your family?”
Ohla: “No. it’s only me. I left my family in Ukraine because they were like, ‘at least we have to save someone’.”
Goodall: “How old are you?”
Ohla: "I’m 19″
Goodall: “You must be so worried about them”
Ohla: “Yes, it’s actually tragic. I couldn’t sleep for 3 days… I was in constant panic because my friends from Kyiv are protecting Kyiv right now in the volunteer army.”
Goodall:”What do you think of Vladimir Putin, when you think of think?“
Ohla:"If I see him right now, I will kill him with my own hands. Because this person killed a lot of my friends, my family, my fellow citizens.”
First year in Afghanistan - visiting Herat city, on the Iranian border, in 2007. Living a dream ✨ . . . #afganistan #herat #middleeast #love #photooftheday #refugees #mosque #iran #homesweethome #ancestral #homeland #ancestralhome
The #TrumpShutdown is a manufactured a crisis where there is none.
The real crisis today is the horrific violence and persecution faced by desperate families who have fled their homes because they have nowhere else to go to seek safety.
President Trump will continue to spin his fake news and hateful rhetoric while visiting the US/Mexico border but Americans know the truth. Tell your Senator to say no to the border wall. #TrumpShutdown http://fal.cn/rGyX
Families, like the one in tonight’s #MadamSecretary, are constantly making the difficult choice to leave their homes and flee from violence and persecution.
Head over to our Twitter at 10PM ET for a live tweet. We’ll be featuring posts from the cast and crew of the show as well as our refugee rights researchers and campaigners. #FamiliesBelongTogether
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If you are looking for an emergency exit from Ukraine, Poland will open EIGHT safety points on the border with Ukraine (you will get warm food, medical help and from there you will be guided to safety) in two of our voivodeships: lubelskie and podkarpackie. It is confirmed by the Polish Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Paweł Szefernaker.
Flood refugees from Arkansas near Memphis (Texas, 1937). These people, with all their belongings, are bound for the Lower Rio Grande Valley, where they hope to pick cotton.
When Stars are Scattered is a lovely new graphic memoir that tells the story of a young Somali refugee and his brother on their long journey to America – our pals at the Goats & Soda blog talked to author Omar Mohamed about his life, his story and caring for his disabled brother along the way. Read the full interview here.
African asylum seekers board a bus after being released from Saharonim Prison in the Negev desert. #photojournalism #refugees #africanrefugees #asylumseekers #southernisrael #negev #israel #saharonim #saharonimprison #prison #prisonerrelease #free #freedom #illegal #migrants #illegalmigrants
One of the most controversial SuperBowl commercials showed a mother and her daughter traveling from Mexico to the US border. In “This Is What A Refugee Looks Like,” another mother and daughter duo flees gang and sexual violence in Central America.
In the South China Sea, crewmen of the amphibious cargo ship USS Durham take Vietnamese refugees aboard a small craft, 4/3/1975. NARA ID 558518.
OTD 1975: Operation “Baby Lift” ends
More than 3,300 Vietnamese orphans rescued
Vietnamese Refugee Children on an Operation Babylift Flight Arriving at San Francisco International Airport, 4/5/1975. Ford Library, NARA ID 12007111.
In April 1975, the North Vietnamese captured Saigon, taking control of South Vietnam and marking the end of the Vietnam War. In the chaotic final days before the fall of Saigon, President Gerald Ford ordered the evacuation of Vietnamese orphans.
The mission, officially named Operation Babylift, began April 3, 1975 and ended #OTD 1975, only 16 days before the fall of Saigon and the end of the war. In all, more than 3,300 children were evacuated to the United States.
President Gerald R. Ford greets and holds Vietnamese refugee babies at San Francisco International Airport Following the Arrival of an Operation Babylift Plane from South Vietnam" 4/5/1975. NARA IDs 7839930and23869153.
Shoes from a Child Transported During Operation Babylift, 1975. Ford Library.
