The United States plans to increase the number of refugees admitted from Central America fleeing El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala — the three “Northern Triangle” countries that are currently embroiled in increasing gang violence and extreme poverty — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerryannounced on Wednesday.
How one Turkish city is adjusting to more than 100,000 Syrians
Their presence is felt. Turkish residents say they beg on street corners, sleep multiple families to an apartment, weigh on the social welfare system and even, according to the rumors, spread meningitis. I heard one woman cry to a friend, “We can’t swim in our pool at all this summer! All those Syrian kids are swimming in our pools and carrying disease!”
At the schoolyard, Recep tells me about his 19-year-old twins. They have been out of high school more than a year, but have struggled to get into the university programs of their choice.
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The ongoing surge of refugees into Europe from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and other war-ravaged countries presents a striking demographic contrast: hundreds of thousands of predominantly young people trying to get into a region where the population is older than in almost any other place on earth.
Refugee surge brings youth to an aging Europe
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Thousands of migrants fleeing war in their home countries have have made it into Germany and to Berlin.
Once they arrive here, they begin the waiting game.
Germany is expecting at least 800,000 migrants this year alone, and Germans are struggling with the changes they bring.
At Berlin’s main processing center for migrants, at a social service ministry, people are handed a number on a slip of paper. They crowd around a digital screen in the ministry courtyard to watch for their number to flash, indicating they can go inside to begin the asylum process.
German volunteers serve lunch inside a big canvas tent — lentil soup and bread. Julia Visakovsky, a psychologist, took a day off work to help serve.
“We basically have to make sure that everybody gets food,” Visakovsky says. “Everybody has to stay in line — so children come first, women come first — and give them the feeling that everything is OK here.”
In Germany, Migrants Find Footing But Also Some Resistance
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Secretary Kerry meets with Syrian refugees in #Berlin.
Today in #Germany, Secretary Kerry announced that in FY16 the United States will increase the number of #refugees we settle to 85 thousand from around the world and at least 10 thousand from #Syria. In FY17, the United States will resettle 100 thousand refugees from around the world.
