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Global Refuge on PBS NewsHour: Afghan Refugees One Year Later

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Global Refuge Staff

August 25, 2022

Global Refuge on PBS NewsHour: Afghan Refugees
One Year Later

Global Refuge’s President & CEO, Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, joined PBS NewsHour to talk about our work resettling Afghan refugees, the legal limbo tens of thousands of our new neighbors find themselves in, as well as the pressing need to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act.

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