The North Phoenix Christian Soccer Club is a safe haven for refugee children from 15 different countries. Buoyed by the tireless efforts of Director Myles Grunewald and manager Alondra Ruiz, the future of the club is in peril due to lack of funding.
After fleeing Syria and spending more than two years in a single room in Lebanon, a young Syrian family is being resettled in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Shortly after their arrival, a shift in the American political climate threatens their new status.
In May 2016, the Housaqs became the first family of Syrian refugees to land in the red state of Nebraska. When the Housaqs move across the way from native Nebraskan John Dutcher, the man's deep-seated hostility and fear of Muslims is challenged.
Nicknamed "The Ellis Island of the South," Clarkston, Georgia is the nation's most ethnically diverse square mile. But the Trump administration's position on refugees poses an existential threat to the future of this Southern haven for immigrants.
Fleeing ethnic cleansing, the Rohingya are among the most vulnerable refugees in the world. With growing numbers of Rohingya in Chicago, Nasir Bin Zakaria opens the Rohingya Culture Center in hopes of carving out a new home for his brethren.
Following six months of conversion therapy with an anti-gay therapist, years of abuse, and an attempt on his life, young Ecuadorian Luis Mancheno fled to the U.S., where he now fights for the lives of other refugees as an immigration attorney.