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Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis crowd along the ship’s railing, some waving and smiling, as the ship departs Hamburg in 1939 in a failed attempt to find refuge from Nazi persecution.

The Shameful Lesson of the ‘St. Louis’ is as Relevant as Ever

Group of migrant women and children standing behind a metal barricade, looking somber while waiting outdoors near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Trump’s Asylum Ban and the U.S.-Mexico Border — What You Need to Know

A woman and small child walk down a street.

A Welcome Circle Helps a Journalist’s Family Start a New Story

Refugees in Ecuador: What You Need to Know

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Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis crowd along the ship’s railing, some waving and smiling, as the ship departs Hamburg in 1939 in a failed attempt to find refuge from Nazi persecution.

The Shameful Lesson of the ‘St. Louis’ is as Relevant as Ever

Shavuot Through the Lens of Modern Migration

Group of migrant women and children standing behind a metal barricade, looking somber while waiting outdoors near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Trump’s Asylum Ban and the U.S.-Mexico Border — What You Need to Know

A woman and small child walk down a street.

A Welcome Circle Helps a Journalist’s Family Start a New Story

Zubair Babakarkhail, center, watches as his daughter Javeria, left, 6, points out photos of other refugees she knows in an issue of “Postindustrial” magazine to Ivonne Smith-Tapia, right, director of refugee services at Jewish Child and Family Service (JCFS), during a small gathering on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021, in Pittsburgh. Babakarkhail is continuing reporting on his home country of Afghanistan for the magazine and other news outlets after his role as a journalist put him in danger under Afghanistan’s new Taliban rule. (Stephanie Strasburg/HIAS)

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Refugees in Ecuador: What You Need to Know

Newly arrived Somali refugees wait at the profiling and resigtration centre in the Dadaab refugee camp, one of Africa's largest refugee camps in Kenya, on March 23, 2023. - Between 400 and 500 people arrive at Dadaab every day, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR, mostly driven from Somalia after five consecutive seasons of failed rains. The World Health Organization says this drought, already the worst in 40 years, could result in the deaths of 135 people in Somalia every day between January and June this year. (Photo by Bobb Muriithi / AFP) (Photo by BOBB MURIITHI/AFP via Getty Images)

Refugees in Kenya: What You Need to Know

Deported people looking for relatives from the windows of a transport during the arrival of a group of Salvadorans deported from the United States to the Migrant Care Management Office (GAMI), in San Salvador, El Salvador on February 12, 2025. (Alex Pena/Anadolu via Getty Images

100 Days of Attacks on Immigration, Asylum, and Refugee Rights

A van of deportees approaches CECOT prison in El Salvador.

Refugee Rights and the Trump Administration — April 25, 2025

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HIAS partner R2P works with Ukranian refugees at the Ukraine-Poland border and within the nearby city of Lviv, March 2022.

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Psychologist Karla Flores speaks with Angie Torres, who left her home country of Honduras with her family, traveling through Mexico with great difficulty until they eventually found refuge at Pan de Vida Migrant Shelter in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua state, Mexico on December 9, 2021. Photographer: Paul Ratje HIAS

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