Krish O'Mara Vignarajah
immigration and refugee advocate
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These families did everything asked of them,
- said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president of Global RefugeThe Independentindependent.co.uk/news/trump…
A refugee program that centres one group and sidelines all others is an abdication of our global humanitarian leadership and an abandonment of thousands of vulnerable families,
- Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Global Refuge, said in a statementNews24news24.com/politics/us…
There is no euphemism that can sanitize caging human beings. Calling a metal box a ‘calming area’ is an affront to the English language and to human dignity alike,
- said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president of Global RefugeThe Independentindependent.co.uk/news/world…
They now face an impossible choice: remain without status and risk arrest and deportation, or return to a Haiti marred by gang violence, kidnapping and the collapse of basic services,
- said VignarajahGuardiantheguardian.com/us/news…
In a stunning contradiction, the administration advises Americans against all travel to Haiti — and instructs those who go anyway to draft a will and submit DNA samples so their remains can be identified,
- said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of the immigrant-serving non-profit Global RefugeGuardiantheguardian.com/us/news…
Birthright citizenship survived the Chinese Exclusion Act, Jim Crow … and executive order that would have essentially turned the maternity ward into a customs checkpoint,
- said Krish... Vignarajah said following the Supreme Court’s decisionThe Independentindependent.co.uk/news/world…
In the last 24 hours
New Trump rule speeds process for revoking refugee status
The Hillthehill.com/homenews/administr…Earlier
Trump pushes to admit 17,500 White Afrikaners from South Africa in 2027 refugee cap
The Hillthehill.com/homenews/administr…President Trump's plan to bring nearly 18,000 White Afrikaners to the U.S. is projected to cost taxpayers $500 million
CBS Newscbsnews.com/video/trumps…DHS watchdog finds immigrants were held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in outdoor cages the size of phone booths
NBC Newsnbcnews.com/politics/national…Photographs from the report show a cage that looks only slightly larger than a telephone box sitting on what is either grass or turf and surrounded by chain-link fencing topped with concertina wire
Brisbane Timesbrisbanetimes.com.au/world/nor…New York City Lets Haitian Workers Go After Loss of Protected Status
The New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/08…Two federal judges officially ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for two countries Friday, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision favoring the Trump administration in June, opening up thousands more immigrants to potential deportation
Newsweeknewsweek.com/tps/legal…Haitians face arrest and deportation after US removes TPS protections
Guardiantheguardian.com/us/news…Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss internal ICE guidance
Newsweeknewsweek.com/ice/agents…Supreme Court ruling sparks race to kill a multibillion-dollar loophole in Congress
Fox Newsfoxnews.com/politics/supreme…Mike Johnson learns SCOTUS denied Trump efforts to end birthright citizenship
The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/world…Trump attorney general plots crackdown on ‘birth tourism’ after supreme court ruling
Guardiantheguardian.com/us/news…Mike Johnson learns SCOTUS denied Trump efforts to end birthright citizenship
The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/world…US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship in major blow to Trump
Saudi Gazettesaudigazette.com.sa/article/66…This comes after Trump had signed an executive order on the first day of his presidency decreeing those born to parents in the US illegally or on temporary visas could not automatically become Americans
France 24france24.com/en/trump…US Supreme Court weighs ending protected status of Haitians, Syrians
Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/world/news…Hundreds of thousands of migrants are placing a last-ditch bet on Wednesday that the Supreme Court will side with them over former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
Axiosaxios.com/2026/04…Trump touts ongoing Middle East conflict a success as the DHS Secretary is ousted
CNNcnn.com/2026/03…Senator Markwayne Mullin, whose first name is a mash-up honoring two uncles, took questions on Capitol Hill after President Trump announced his nomination on Thursday
The New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/03…