Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, not up to now. What we've been trying to do with the Bangladesh government is to urge it to continue to be as generous as it has been up to now and not to look for offshore solutions. At one time it was talking about putting them on an island offshore. We felt that was no

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I'm sorry I haven't been able to answer all the questions. I have several follow-ups to several of you. There's the 2015 audit, and I know I owe you an answer also. I'll get back to you. If there are others, I'll leave you my card.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I wish I had an answer for you. Clearly, until you can convince the military that these people are from Burma, from Myanmar, and that they've been there for generations.... The military is trying to sell a fiction that these people are really Bengali and came there from Banglad

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I like to think that it still is. There are constraints and ways within the checks and balances system to give protection to migrants. I think that it doesn't mean they don't have fears from what they've heard from recent pronouncements that it might not be good to be there. I su

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. I'm speaking as the Director General of IOM.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I've become aware of this in the short time I've been here. Do we have figures on it? Do you have some idea of what the numbers are? They are apparently quite large. They are mostly Haitians, I suppose, and El Salvadoreans.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I was ambassador to Haiti for five years. It's a place I dearly love, and I know you have a strong commitment to Haiti. The temporary protective status had been in place since the earthquake. However, when the TPS was removed, I guess they started coming across the border. I wou

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think, again, that it's a bilateral question to discuss with the United States.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's to talk to them, to explain. Give them figures and say this is happening. Say, “You've lifted temporary protective status; could you not restore it?”

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You have the same problem now that Europe has with people coming into Europe. If the numbers are manageable, could you give them temporary protective status?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think you have to do both. I think you have to do three things. You have to do refugee resettlement, improve the conditions where they are, and try where possible to get them to return. It's a very sensitive issue. Return is very sensitive always, because there will always be

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You're absolutely right. We give strong priority to family reunification. People who are there with their families are much more likely to be productive and good citizens than those who have their families stranded elsewhere. I think, again, that the best thing to do if you have

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm glad you raised that, because as you know, the largest group of forced migrants are the internally displaced persons. They are not included either in the global compact on refugees or the global compact on migration. The 200 people we have inside Syria are doing nothing but t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  These are the Azeris. I'll have to leave that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We've tried to support you on the minority groups like the Azeris, who have been very persecuted. I think we were able to play a role to help on that. The major role we played in Erbil, however, was to establish 200,000 shelters for Azeris and others fleeing Mosul. We did all of