The Trump administration has canceled travel plans for refugees who were approved to enter the United States before the January 27 deadline to suspend the US refugee resettlement program.
Thousands of refugees are now stranded in different places around the world.
The suspension was contained in an executive order signed by Donald Trump on Monday. That leaves open the possibility that people who had to go through a lengthy process to be approved as refugees and allowed to come to the U.S., and whose flights were booked before that deadline, may still be Can enter under the wire.
But in an email reviewed by The Associated Press on Wednesday, the U.S. refugee processing and immigration agency told staff and stakeholders that “refugee arrivals to the U.S. have been suspended until further notice.” “.
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