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Katrina Lantos Swett: I think one thing we need to be prepared to do as a government is raise the refugee resettlement quotas for some of…

On the recordSeptember 17, 2014
I think one thing we need to be prepared to do as a government is raise the refugee resettlement quotas for some of these horribly targeted communities in the region of, you know, Iraq, in particular, the area that ISIL has taken over in Iraq.
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Katrina Lantos Swett

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Advocating for increased refugee resettlement quotas for persecuted communities.

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