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Madeleine Albright: “It makes it very hard when America says you need to let in more people, and meanwhile, we are cutting our own numbers.”

On the recordFebruary 26, 2019
It makes it very hard when America says you need to let in more people, and meanwhile, we are cutting our own numbers.
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Madeleine Albright

Editor's note · Context

Albright points out the contradiction in U.S. refugee policy versus its global stance.

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