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Dick Durbin: “The President has barred all refugees from coming to the…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Durbin Slams Senate Republicans For Holding Hearing Supporting Threats To Denaturalize Americans

Published | Video Starts at 05:55

The administration has not clarified what this means, but we can take an educated guess. Look at the refugee program. The President has barred all refugees from coming to the United States except those whose admission it deems in the national interest. The only refugees the Trump administration has decided or qualified so far, White Afrikaners. These policy changes, the targeting of DACA holders, new barriers to the green card and an end to the refugee program are devastating to immigrants in American communities. (05:55–06:03)

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Asserts that the President barred all refugees except those deemed in the national interest.

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