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Trump pledges to prioritize Christians as he freezes US refugee program
Jan 27, 2017.
President Donald Trump pledged Friday to prioritize Christian refugees in the Middle East as he used his executive power to suspend the U.S.’s refugee resettlement program.Trump went on to say it was “impossible, at least very tough” for Syrian Christians to find refuge in the United States under former President Barack Obama.
According to the State Department’s Refugee Processing Center, of the 15,479 Syrian refugees granted asylum in the U.S. in 2016, only 125 were Christian: 32 Catholics, 32 Orthodox, five Protestants, four Jehovah’s Witnesses and 52 who identified as Christians.
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