Refugee Quotes

My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen as a route to this country when he was sponsored, making fraud unnecessary. My wife's grandfather bought papers from another Chinese villager to be able to come to the United States. Nicholas Kristof
Marriage Father Wife Citizen Country States Papers Unnecessary Fraud Eastern Fraudulent Eastern Europe Able He Bought Sponsored Come Another Making American American Citizen Refugee Chinese Grandfather Europe Preparing United United States Route
I arrived in this country as a refugee child with my sister and my mother. Noma Dumezweni
Mother Country Sister Arrived Child Refugee
I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street. Patch Adams
War Important Down Those Bosnia More Taken None Kosovo Camps Walking Than Any Refugee Just Clowning Clowns Just Walking Subway Street Elevator
Anne Richard, a senior U.S. State Department official, testified at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing in November 2015 that any Syrian refugee trying to get into the United States is scrutinized by officials from the National Counterterrorism Center, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, State Department and Pentagon. Peter Bergen
November National State State Department States Syrian Security Pentagon Anne Counterterrorism Hearing Get Senate Trying Department Official Officials Any Committee Senior Refugee Center Scrutinized Richard Homeland Homeland Security United United States
Trump has long said he favors a 'safe zone' in Syria to prevent Basher al Assad's regime from carrying out indiscriminate airstrikes against Syrian civilians and to halt the refugee flow out of Syria. Peter Bergen
Long Syria Syrian Out Carrying Favors Civilians Prevent Indiscriminate He Safe Said Halt Trump Refugee Regime Against Al Flow Zone
The United States has already experienced the danger of flawed refugee vetting as well as the potential for refugees to be radicalized once they are here. In 2011, two Iraqi refugees were arrested in Kentucky for conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals abroad in support of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the predecessor to ISIL. Peter T. King
Conspiracy Once Danger States Abroad Potential Support Well Arrested Were Iraq Iraqi Refugee Refugees Predecessor Experienced Flawed United United States Al-Qaeda Here Kentucky Two
Under a decades-old agreement, Palestinian refugee camps are supposed to administer and police themselves. Lebanese troops are technically not allowed to enter them. Richard Engel
Police Technically Enter Administer Troops Allowed Supposed Lebanese Camps Refugee Them Themselves Agreement Palestinian
If you're an Islamic terrorist, probably the last program I'd use to try to get into this country is the refugee program. Ron Johnson
You Try Country Islamic Terrorist Get Refugee Use Last Program
There is a real problem in terms of the refugee flow, the ability of ISIS to infiltrate those refugee flows, our inability to track them. Ron Johnson
Problem Our Those Ability Terms Track Real Real Problem Infiltrate Refugee Inability Them Flow Flows
I was born in India, and we came from a poor family and lived in a rural village. My dad came over to Canada as a refugee, and years later, we were able to join him. Rupi Kaur
Family Later India Rural Able Born Join Over Him Came Were Years Canada Refugee Poor Village Dad Lived
If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee. Samantha Power
Difficult Aim Way States More Attack Than Getting Refugee Your Hard United United States Here Imagine Posing
My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17. Sarah Gavron
Age Mother Berlin Only Only Child Came German Child Refugee Grandmother Who Here Jewish
Between the summer of 2015 and spring 2016, Austria became one of the European countries most affected by the migration and refugee crisis. Sebastian Kurz
Spring Summer Crisis Between Countries Most Became Affected Austria Refugee Migration European European Countries
I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really. Spalding Gray
Me Old College Everyone Way Guided Right Way Kind Would Onward Simply New League New England Tradition Up Ivy Ivy League Ended Upper-Class Refugee After Upward Really England Wasp Right Rejected Raised
Like other conflict-affected regions, Africa continues to see religious, ethnic, and politically motivated conflicts. Extremist violence is now entrenched in several parts of the world. Armed conflicts are leading to protracted refugee crises to the scale that has not been seen since World War II. Tedros Adhanom
War World Seen Other Several Extremist Crises Scale Religious See Entrenched Leading Since Armed Like Parts Protracted Motivated Been Politically Refugee Africa Conflicts Regions Ethnic Now Violence World War World War II
In Turkey, there are no 'refugee camps.' There are Turkish 'temporary protection shelters.' The Kurdis had no papers, no UNHCR refugee designations, and no passports, and therefore did not qualify for exit visas. Terry Glavin
Protection Papers Temporary Had Qualify Shelters Exit Camps Did Refugee Turkey Turkish Therefore
Back in August 2013, when Obama entertained the White House press corps in the Rose Garden to explain that he wasn't quite as eager to upbraid Bashar Assad as he might have inadvertently led them earlier to believe, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees counted about two million Syrians in its refugee statistics. Terry Glavin
Garden White White House Rose Believe Back Corps Press Statistics High Entertained Obama About Counted He House August Led Commissioner Quite Refugee Refugees Explain Inadvertently Them Might Eager Million Earlier Two
If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia. Tony Abbott
Somewhere Border Come Course Camp Australia Refugee Want Pakistani
Israel was established as a homeland for the Jewish people and embraced all the Jews who had to leave Arab states. This should be also the true meaning of the future Palestinian state. It should be the answer for the Palestinians wherever they are - those who live in the territories, and those who are being kept as political cards in refugee camps. Tzipi Livni
Future People Political Live Jewish People Jews State States Those Arab Embraced Had True Also True Meaning Territories Answer Israel Leave Camps Refugee Established Being Wherever Meaning Meaning Of Should Who Homeland Palestinian Palestinian State Palestinians Cards Kept Jewish
We've had a humble upbringing. You know, my father came through as a political refugee; my mother comes from a hard-working-farmers family. We've had humble upbringing. Vincent Kompany
Family You Humble Mother Political Father Through Had Know Came Upbringing Refugee
Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon. Walter Russell Mead
Living State Syria Arab Citizenship About Something Only Jordan Lebanon Integrated Provided Camps Done Refugee Refugees Them Palestinian Palestinians
I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation. Hillary Clinton
Work People Single Every States Ensure Asylum Tell Seeks Devastation Fair Fair Chance Least His Persecution Offer Refugee Story Fleeing Who United United States Her Chance
As a Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union, I felt it was ridiculous to expect me to atone for the sins of slavery and segregation, to say nothing of the household drudgery and workplace discrimination suffered by women. Max Boot
Me Women Nothing Say Atone Segregation Drudgery Household Felt Sins Discrimination Expect Soviet Soviet Union Refugee Union Workplace Ridiculous Suffered Slavery Jewish
Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England. M.I.A.
War Government Minority Spent India Lifetime Majority Sort Island Sri Lanka Years Off Began Refugee Where Which Lanka Coast England Who Started Two
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