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Refugee focus now turns from Turkey, EU to US, Russia, Gulf States

The international crisis posed by refugees from the Syrian civil war and other conflicts has raised questions about whether all States are doing enough. Church and religious groups are saying the United States should resettle at least 100,000 Syrian refugees in the next year and other countries . ....

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As head of a Baltimore based immigration organization, Krishanti O'Mara Vignarajah sees herself in her clients

BALTIMORE At 9 months old, most babies are just learning how to stand and crawl on their own. Krishanti “Krish” O’Mara Vignarajah was learning how to navigate life in a new country. Her parents, Elyathamby and Anandasothy Vignarajah, left Sri Lanka at the brink of a civil war in the early 1980s, with their infant daughter and 3-year-old son. The Vignarajah family moved to Catonsville with . ....

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