Each year, between 800 and 1,000 refugees - survivors of violent conflict, persecution and oppression unimaginable to most Americans - make their homes in greater Tucson.

Angele Nogue grew up on her grandmother’s farm in Cameroon, and growing vegetables has always been part of her life. In 2008, though, she had to flee her country, and was granted asylum in the United States.

In the late 2000s, the International Rescue Committee's Phoenix chapter was seeing increased numbers of refugee families from around the world with babies on the way. Many of those babies were being born at low body weights and growing more slowly than their peers.

La guerra de Irak dejó atrás millones de refugiados y desplazados internos. Muchos acaban pidiendo asilo político en el país que se hizo con el suyo aún hoy.

Long after the last U.S. soldier left Iraq, thousands of Iraqis who worked for our military and civilians are still living in dangerous limbo, waiting for promised U.