10 Things Trump Gets Wrong About Refugees
It’s no secret that we have our differences with President Trump, but his record on refugees has been particularly hard to take. Why? A brief review:
- He banned refugees from certain countries from entering the United States. (That ban has been challenged in court, halted, and altered various times, but it persists.)
- He suspended the entire US refugee resettlement program while cutting the number of refugees approved to arrive in 2017 by more than half.
- He capped refugee arrivals in 2018 at 45,000—the lowest level ever.
Our friends at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) have been working hard to push back against Trump’s aggressive moves and rhetoric, while at the same time seeking to educate all of us about the truth about refugees. They came up with a list of ten things that Trump doesn’t understand about refugees that we just had to share. Take a look.
1. Refugees Are Not a Security Risk ...
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