A county in North Dakota is set to decide Monday whether it will stop accepting refugees, potentially becoming the first since President Trump issued an executive order making it possible. Trump's executive order earlier this fall came after he’d proposed cutting the number of refugees next year to the lowest level since the early 1980s. He declared that refugees should be resettled only in places where state and local governments gave consent. Dykshoorn said Burleigh County had been projected to receive no more than 25 refugees annually in the coming years. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which has worked with Lutheran Social Services, was one of three national organizations suing to block Trump's executive order.

Source: Fox News December 08, 2019 21:22 UTC