Refugees stay in Trump's childhood home
Source: The Hill
BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 09/18/17 09:27 AM EDT
The anti-poverty nonprofit Oxfam rented out President Trump's childhood home in Queens over the weekend, footing the $725 per night bill for refugees to stay at what is now an AirBnb.
The effort was designed to call attention to Trump policies preventing refugees from being resettled in the United States.
Trump's travel ban temporarily suspended the refugee resettlement program, and reports have circulated in that last week that Trump could cut in half the number of refugees the United States accepts.
“We wanted to send a strong message to Trump and world leaders that they must do more to welcome refugees,” Shannon Scribner, acting director for the humanitarian department of Oxfam America, told the Associated Press.
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