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New Hampshire's refugee resettlement program is fully funded with federal money. HB1706 would keep the state’s health and human services department from disbursing that money to different resettlement organizations.

The New Hampshire Senate’s vote on House Bill 1706 was unanimous and came without debate. During a public hearing, senators from both parties questioned claims that refugees usurp housing and government services on the taxpayers’ dime.

The pair met on social media and within a few days, they were at the border documenting and helping refugees crossing into Poland.

El programa de reasentamiento de refugiados de New Hampshire se financia completamente con fondos federales. El proyecto de ley HB1706 impediría que el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos del estado distribuya los fondos a diferentes organizaciones de reasentamiento.

Stars like Bruce Springsteen canceled North Carolina shows because of the state's "bathroom bill." Others, like Beyonce, played. For local musicians and venues, the decision is a complicated one.

North Carolina Republicans and the state's Democratic governor announced a deal to repeal the state's controversial "bathroom bill." But LGBT rights advocates say they oppose it.

A deal between Charlotte leaders and state lawmakers called for the repeal of both a local ordinance and the controversial state law. The repeal failed a Senate vote, and the Legislature adjourned.

Ann Cooper presents the first of four reports on refugees in the post-Cold War era. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, most analysts expected an easing of the world's refugee burden. But the end of the Cold War made for a more unstable world, and thus ever more refugees. Created after World War Two to deal with what was considered a temporary refugee crisis, the U-N refugee agency today oversees a vast global bureaucracy in charge of huge, semi-permanent cities of refugees.

In the second report in her series on refugees in the post-Cold War era, Ann Cooper explores what life is like for refugees who have no hope of going home anytime soon. The Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya is home to people who have fled Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and other countries. International relief groups have made life in the camp better than what most of the refugees would find back home, with everything from business management classes to book clubs. But it's also a distorted society, where relief officials wield tremendous power and refugees become heavily dependent on foreign assistance.

Robert Siegel speaks with the BBC's Chris Nuttal, who is in northern Iraq where a faction of Kurds allied with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has successfully pushed out an opposing faction of Kurds. He estimates that 50 to 75 thousand Kurdish refugees from the losing faction are moving towards the Iranian border.