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October 16, 2019

Activists Arrested in D.C. over Trump Plan to Gut Refugee Resettlement
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Eighteen leaders from human rights and faith organizations were arrested
in a civil disobedience action protesting the Trump administration's
efforts to gut the refugee resettlement program. Last month, the
administration proposed accepting only 18,000 refugees over the next
year. That's down from the 110,000-person limit set by President Obama
during his final year in office. Tuesday's arrests on Capitol Hill came
as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was meeting privately with
congressmembers to discuss Trump's plan to cap the number of refugees
admitted into the country at the lowest level since the program began
four decades ago.


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