Contact Everyone: Jordan and Daraa Province

contact everyone: He hasn't heard from parents left behind in Jordan, presumably because they fear the same fate if they make contact, according to The Chronicle Herald. Everyone is afraid, he said by Skype from Syria's Daraa province. After more than four years in Jordan, the 31-year-old is back in a war zone where he fears for his family's safety and struggles to find work. Deportations from Jordan have spiked in recent months, with entire Syrian families sent back for the first time, including large numbers of children, said two international aid officials. The international group Human Rights Watch said it has documented numerous cases since 2014 of Jordan forcibly returning Syrian asylum seekers to Syria. One official said that more than one-third of several thousand refugees who went back to Syria between January and April were forcibly deported, while others returned voluntarily. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.