Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity
It is important that we return to the principles of the Dublin agreement and help Greece with European funds to accommodate refugees.
Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
Vladimir Putin devastates and destroys his enemies. He's been devastating and destroying the Syrian people. And Hillary Clinton spoke out against that. She had the courage to do that.
Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.
The fall of Eastern Aleppo marks a watershed in the five-year Syrian civil war. Opposition forces first took part of the city in 2012.
Refugees, imperialism, all the things that we are facing right now. What are we going to do with that? What's the moral imperative? Where do we sit with all that, as a worldwide community?
Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.
We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call "free Syrian army." That's what we said.
If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.
Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal.
Yeah, we were refugees coming to the U.K. and I definitely now view myself as a Rwandan Scotsman.
If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.
In fact, in Indiana we suspended the Syrian refugee program in the wake of the terrorist attack. We have no higher priority than the safety and security of the people of this country, and Donald Trump is right to articulate that view.
Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.
Immigration and openness to refugees is an important part of our country's success and, quite honestly, to Uber's.
According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.
The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.
Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.
The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.
My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.
We must continue to honor America's commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.
66 percent of Americans agree in a temporary ban of refugees entering the United States!
I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.
There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces
The guttural sorrow of the refugees.
As deputy secretary of state, I spent hours with my Turkish counterparts trying to find a modus vivendi for continuing American support to the Syrian Democratic Forces.
Mass migrations of climate refugees erode borders and nations, creating a global playground for terrorists and traffickers.
As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.
Bashar al-Assad's henchmen stomped on the hands of famed Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat. Our dictators tailor wounds to suit their victims' occupations.
I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
I am grateful to the Germans in general, particularly those who displayed unending dedication to the refugees and who continue to do so.
I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
If President Obama really wants to hurt the Syrian government, don't send cruise missiles. He should send over some of his economic advisers.
I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.
Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.
Chris Christie who proposes accepting Syrian refugee orphans under the age of 5 because they may not be vetted well enough. You can`t trust them. The 5-year-olds might it be terrorists. After all, they`re from Syria.
When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?
With every generation comes a new wave of hopefuls: small-town escapees, European refugees, disaffected Londoners.
The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.
The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
We dragged the National Health Service from the depths of degradation. I've got a United Nations heart bypass to prove it and it was done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor and a Nigerian registrar.
For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they're thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.
We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want to give up the Golan (Heights).
Any cooperation that doesn't go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it's not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we don't recognize and we don't accept.
We need to provide humanitarian assistance to civilians and accept our fair share of refugees.
Educate yourself, learn about what refugees face when they don't have homes, after they have lost everything.
On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an immigrant from Germany whose visa had expired and, for a year and change, was undocumented here in the U.S.
If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see.
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refugees.
President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in Lebanon, and encouragement of jihadist attacks on Americans in Iraq.
In countless communities across America today, refugees are giving back to the country that has given them a new start.
We're going to renegotiate our disastrous trade deals and illegal immigration. Stop the massive inflow of refugees.
At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.
Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.
The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees."
We have evidence that a number of Bahrainis who oppose our government are being trained in Syria. I have seen the files and we have notified the Syrian authorities, but they deny any involvement.
Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.
Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down.
We cannot forget that we are a nation founded by refugees who were fleeing oppression and often fearful for their lives.
Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.
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