U.S. officials face a public reckoning over policies that divide immigrant families and may put children in harm's way. Immigration reporter Aline Barros explains the concerns over the welfare of .
The Trump administration has whittled one of the country’s top humanitarian programs, canceling for more than 300,000 people. But no one knows — including government officials — what to expect from so many foreign-born residents losing legal status. Who will go home? Who will stay, undocumented? Quite literally, no one knows.
They come at night for the young girls who sought safety from Boko Haram, Nigerian activists say. They find the most vulnerable. They offer them jobs, they take them abroad. tell their stories to Chika Oduah.
He gutsily scaled the outside of a Paris apartment building to save a dangling child. The video stunned social media, the child was safe, and 20-something went from undocumented migrant to French citizen in a viral instant: “I didn't think twice,” he told VOA’s Bambara service. “I crossed the street and was able to run up there to save him."
The number of refugees and people displaced by Central African Republic's soared to more than 1 million in the last year — which means roughly one out of every four of the country’s residents has fled his or her home.
A learned her birth county’s regional dishes from neighbors while living in a Thai refugee camp. Now she’s running an upscale D.C. restaurant, expanding the city’s food scene deeper into Southeast Asia. “Not too many people know where Laos is,” Seng Luangrath told VOA. “So, I have to come out and teach my guests what is Lao food, where is Laos.”