November 17, 2015
By Eleanor Mueller
...But the last straw didn't come until August 2012. (click here) Ali's wife — Aaminah — had just given birth in a Damascus hospital, and they had left the baby in the maternity ward out of fear their own neighborhood was unsafe. Then, a week later, they received the news — the worst any parents could imagine.
The hospital had been attacked, the target of a government airstrike. The doctors had fled for their lives, and the building had collapsed. Their newborn son — their beautiful baby boy — had suffocated in the wreckage and died.
"We buried him, and we decided to leave," Ali said through an interpreter.
They are among the 1,850 or so Syrians who have relocated to the United States since the conflict began. More are expected, or were, until Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility, and one of the dead attackers had a Syrian passport near his body....
November 17, 2015
By Jim Dwyer
...Then again, there is Wankel’s, (click here) a family-owned hardware store that opened on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in the 19th century. For decades, it has hired people who came to the United States fleeing violence and persecution.
By Eleanor Mueller
...But the last straw didn't come until August 2012. (click here) Ali's wife — Aaminah — had just given birth in a Damascus hospital, and they had left the baby in the maternity ward out of fear their own neighborhood was unsafe. Then, a week later, they received the news — the worst any parents could imagine.
The hospital had been attacked, the target of a government airstrike. The doctors had fled for their lives, and the building had collapsed. Their newborn son — their beautiful baby boy — had suffocated in the wreckage and died.
"We buried him, and we decided to leave," Ali said through an interpreter.
They are among the 1,850 or so Syrians who have relocated to the United States since the conflict began. More are expected, or were, until Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility, and one of the dead attackers had a Syrian passport near his body....
November 17, 2015
By Jim Dwyer
...Then again, there is Wankel’s, (click here) a family-owned hardware store that opened on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in the 19th century. For decades, it has hired people who came to the United States fleeing violence and persecution.
“People coming from really bad situations, trying to make a better life in America,” said Sean Wankel, 32, vice president of Wankel’s. “Or a life.”...
Office of Refugee Resettlement (click here)
Office of Refugee Resettlement (click here)
