Today, Secretary of State Tillerson briefed Congress on Donald Trump's decision to slash the United States' refugee admissions quota to an all-time low of 45,000 annually.
Of that number, 19,000 could be resettled from Africa, as well as 5,000 from East Africa, 2,000 from each of Europe and Central Asia, 1,500 from Latin
America plus the Caribbean, and 17,000 from the Near East and South Asia.
Under such stringent guidelines, none of my grandparents would have made it into this country, let alone become citizens. More importantly, today more than 65 million people annually are displaced worldwide.
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