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The Refugees is a 2015 drama television series created by Ramón Campos, Gema R. Neira, Cristóbal Garrido and Adolfo Valor. [1] [2] The series is a joint production of BBC Worldwide and Atresmedia that premiered on laSexta on 7 May 2015. It shows a rural community faced with millions of refugees from the future seeking shelter in the present. [3]
The book has also been well received by universities across the United States. It was the 2017-2018 Common Book at UCLA [4] and the 2018-2019 Common Book at the University of Oregon. [15] The Best We Could Do has been so well received Bui has even had offers for film rights, but she has declined all of them. [2]
When Spanish rule in Texas ended, Mexicans in Texas numbered 5,000. In 1850 over 14,000 Texas residents had Mexican origin. [1] [2] In 1911 an extremely bloody decade-long civil war broke out in Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of refugees fled to Texas, raising the Hispanic population from 72,000 in 1900 to 250,000 in 1920.
A specified number of legally defined refugees who are granted refugee status outside the United States are annually admitted under 8 U.S.C. § 1157 for firm resettlement. [1] [2] Other people enter the United States with or without inspection, and apply for asylum under section 1158. [3] Asylum in the United States has two specific requirements.
A 6-year-old first grader in New York City has been asking to visit the school nurse almost every day for the last month, hoping to be sent home.
Which Way Home is a 2009 documentary film directed by Rebecca Cammisa.The film follows several children who are attempting to get from Mexico and Central America to the United States, on top of a freight train that crosses Mexico known as "La Bestia" (The Beast).
Around the late 1970s in Seabrook, Texas, a Ku Klux Klan group held an anti-Vietnamese rally, and in an incident two Vietnamese fishing boats were burned. [5] The second wave consisted of "boat people" who came from 1978 to 1982. They were socioeconomically poorer than the first wave, and their children did not have as high of a performance in ...
There are various reasons as to why people emigrate from Mexico such as the U.S needing low-skilled labor, or emigrants desiring to establish themselves and their families in the U.S. [2] Furthermore, the patterns of immigration have changed over the years as laws and programs such as the U.S. Immigration Act of 1996, the Bracero Program, and ...