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Musicmystery -> Trump forbids Catholic Charities helping 220 refugees. (1/28/2017 5:38:26 AM)
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They were all set. Vetting, ducks in a row, all approved...220 people offered a way out of their war-ravaged home to a new life in a safe environment.
Christians doing what Christians are supposed to be doing. The Catholic Church at work.
Until Trump forbade it.
President Donald Trump's order Friday to halt refugee resettlement in the United States for at least four months strikes a blow to 220 refugees already approved for a move to Syracuse this year, according to Catholic Charities of Onondaga County.
"They have endured years of persecution and, in some cases, torture, only to find their hopes of freedom dashed by the stroke of a pen," Catholic Charities Executive Director Michael Melara said in a statement Friday. "This is a human tragedy."
Trump signed an executive order Friday afternoon at the Pentagon that places a 120-day hold on all refugee admission and resettlement in the United States while vetting procedures are reviewed, and indefinitely halts admission of all Syrian refugees.
http://www.syracuse.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/01/catholic_charities_trump_order_halts_220_refugees_approved_for_syracuse_move.html
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