Record-high global displacement fueling US border crisis

Published June 23, 2024 9:20am ET



A record-high 120 million people are displaced from their homes across the globe at a time when more people than ever before are arriving at the United States’s southern border from far-away countries.

Organizations that assist refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants warned on Thursday, World Refugee Day, that global displacement figures have more than doubled over the past decade and increased by 10 million since 2023. 

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