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‘We Don’t Want Those People’: Trump Defends Refugee Pause, Declines To Lay Out Timeline

President Donald Trump declined to lay out a timeline on his administration’s planned pause on offers of asylum regarding 19 countries “of concern.”

Trump defended the pause — but did not say when he might relax it — while speaking with reporters on board Air Force One on Sunday. The president said that the United States is better off without accepting refugees from the targeted countries.

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