Zahra Hakimi escaped Afghanistan in August 2021 and found temporary refuge at Fort McCoy, a military base in western Wisconsin that housed 13,000 Afghan refugees. Now, Hakimi is studying computer ...

With nearly 13,000 evacuees, Fort McCoy was the second-largest Afghan refugee encampment in the U.S. All have since been resettled, with the last Afghans leaving the fort three years ago in ...

Fort McCoy officials have not granted media requests to interview refugees nor access to the base. They have shared some photos and videos from inside. They have also discouraged volunteers from ...

Historians from Eau Claire to Milwaukee are racing to preserve the 100-year legacy of Latino settlement in Wisconsin.

With nearly 13,000 evacuees, Fort McCoy was the second-largest Afghan refugee encampment in the U.S. All have since been resettled, with the last Afghans leaving the fort three years ago, in January ...

When I heard the news that President Donald Trump wants to detain up to 30,000 migrants at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, my stomach sank. I am an immigration attorney at the International Refugee ...

A U.S. Marine helps a child off of a Cuban refugee boat during the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Fernando Yovera AP Photo In 1980, then-President Jimmy Carter welcomed 125,000 Cuban refugees to the United ...

the International Refugee Assistance Project released a report accusing the U.S.-run Migrant Operations Center at Guantánamo Bay, or GMOC, of detaining migrants fleeing Haiti, Cuba and other ...

Haitian and Cuban refugees previously held on Guantánamo—as well as many of the terrorism suspects—filed numerous suits challenging the detention and conditions, several of which were ...

Most applications are from Cuban citizens, Mondelli explained. “There may be situations in which people have not reached a level that qualifies them as refugees, but this does not mean that the ...