refugees

Observers draw a parallel between anti-refugee sentiments now and during WWII. Back then, many doors where closed to those fleeing Nazism. Bolivia was a notable exception.

In 1939, a Gallup poll found 61 percent of Americans opposed a plan for taking in 10,000 refugee children, most of them German Jews.

U.S. senators point to the program as a potential security risk that poses a bigger threat than admitting Syrian refugees.

Some Americans unhappy with U.S. plans to welcome 10,000 Syrian refugees are threatening to move to Canada. Apparently they haven't noticed that Canada plans to take in 25,000 Syrians.

The vote in the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday that increases security checks on some refugees is raising some protest here in the Triad.

After years of struggling for donations, aid groups were seeing record responses. Then came Paris.

Governors say they will refuse to let Syrian refugees settle in their states. Observers say states can't ban refugees, but efforts to reduce processing times for asylum seekers will be slowed.

Despite the growing list of governors stating they will no longer resettle people from Syria, it's not clear whether states have the legal authority to keep the refugees out.

A Palestinian from Gaza lost his family in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean last year. He says smugglers rammed his boat and should be prosecuted, but prospects for justice so far seem unlikely.