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Trump Administration's Refugee Admissions Plummet
Nicole Narea, immigration reporter at Vox, and Barbara Strack, former chief of Refugee Affairs Division at US Citizenship and Immigration Service at the Department of Homeland Security, discuss the latest news that the United States is slated to accept 18,000 refugees next year, the lowest number in the history of the refugee resettlement program.