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I Lift My Lamp: Refugees in Houston 2006 Part I - Warehoused In Kenya
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There are an estimated 11.5 million refugees throughout the world today. About 7.8 million of these people have been restricted to camps or segregated settlements for five years or more. This protracted refugee situation is called “wa
I Lift My Lamp: Refugees in Houston 2006 Part I
I Lift My Lamp: Refugees In Houston 2006 Part I - Stateless In Russia
Hayriye Mazmanov has been uprooted twice in her 78 years. The first time was in November 1944. That’s when Soviet leader Josef Stalin expelled about 90,000 Meskhetian Turks who living in Soviet Georgia, on the side of the border with T
 
I Lift My Lamp: Refugees In Houston 2006 Part II - Resettlement In Houston
There’s a major difference between refugees and other immigrants. Immigrants are drawn to something in the United States. Refugees are here because they’ve been pushed from their homes. They have nowhere else to go.
 
I Lift My Lamp: Refugees In Houston 2006 Part III - The Refugee Debate In America
Go back before 9/11. We used to talk how this country was founded by refugees and as a refuge for people fleeing persecution in Europe. After 9/11, the talk was about security, detecting and disrupting terrorist cells and the fear that someone from t
 
I Lift My Lamp: Refugees in Houston Part IV - Mother of Exiles: How Does the Jewish Community Weigh in?
The first Jews who came to America in 1654 were 23 refugees fleeing religious persecution from Recife, Brazil, when the Portuguese recaptured the colony from the Dutch. During the 1840s, many of the German Jews who came here w
 
Ethiopian Jews in Israel: Their Story So Far
When the Ethiopian Jews first began arriving in Israel about 25 years ago, they came from a variety of villages spread across Northwest Ethiopia.  There was little communication between the rural Jewish communities and less ability to travel between
 
Immigration Reform and the Jewish Community - Part 1: Houston Jewish Organization Takes the Lead In Creating a New Immigration Policy Reform
If this was the year of health reform, then 2010 could be the year of comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). In addition to health care and energy, President Obama identified immigration as one of his three legislative priorities. The
 
Immigration Reform and the Jewish Community - Part 2: If the Immigration System Is Broken, How Do You Fix It?
The idea behind immigration reform is to come up with an improved system that would remove the current U.S. immigration system’s faults and abuses. Nearly everyone agrees the current system is broken. However, reform can embrace any solution from inc
 

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