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Why Undocumented Immigrants Stay in Abusive Relationships | VICE | United States For many women living in the US illegally, fear of the police is greater than the fear of their abusive partners.

Yasmin set off alone on a horribly risky voyage to Europe, which took her across the Sahara desert and Libya, two death traps for refugees. The journey was especially difficult for Yasmin, whose legs had been badly maimed two years earlier, when her home in Mogadishu was caught in crossfire between the army and Al-Shabaab.

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"United Nations officials estimate that many more Syrian refugees will leave Iraq for Syria, or to other countries in 2016."

Despite war at home, more Syrian refugees return from Iraq Up to 25,000 Syrian refugees left the Kurdistan region of Iraq last year and headed home to their war-ravaged country, worn down by years of hardship in exile.

Chinese immigrants are now the third-largest foreign-born group in the U.S. Most from China have settled in California and New York.

Chinese Immigrants in the United States With the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943 and normalization of U.S.-China relations in the late 1970s, Chinese immigration to the United States has steadily increased, to a population of more than 2 million. Using the latest data, this Spotlight highlights characteristics of Chinese immig…

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The U.S. would lose approximately 2.8 million jobs if all immigrants were deported.

Strength in Diversity: The Economic and Political Power of Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians |... The Political and Economic Power of Immigrants, Latinos, and Asians in the United States (Updated 2015) Download the Fact Sheet Download the Infographic

Some say the conditions in Finland and the lengthy asylum process did not meet their expectations, or what they had been told by the people they paid for their travel,' said Tobias van Treeck, programme officer at the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Thousands of Iraqi refugees cancel leave Finland and return home Thousands of Iraqi refugees who arrived in Finland last year have decided to cancel their asylum applications and to return home voluntarily.

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"Imagine your child leaving home, traveling across treacherous lands filled with cartels, a young girl alone. With the cash she would need to pay her way, saved, borrowed, begged from an entire village in abject poverty."

A day in Immigration court Detroit -- I accompanied a teenager to immigration court. She is one of the thousands of unaccompanied youth who traveled alone from Guatemala to Detroit. She was detained in Arizona and allowed to come here because she has family members here.