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On the recordMarch 20, 2018
Seventy million refugees displaced--that's 1 percent of our world population of 7 billion, and we have got to be able to get in there.
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Ted Yoho
Republican · Florida

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Yoho highlights the urgent need to address the refugee crisis to prevent extremism.

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