“It didn’t happen before the Trump administration that visas were getting denied for no reason. “I don’t have direct evidence of that, but just listen to what they say,” said Moulton, who helped one of his translators come to the United States. The Trump administration has capped the number of refugees it will admit into the United States at 15,000 for 2021, a historic low. “I think it’s indifference,” chairman of the organization’s board of directors James Miervaldis said of the Trump administration. He came to the United States in 2014 and now leads another refugee organization called the Interpreting Freedom Foundation.

Source: Washington Post December 30, 2020 14:15 UTC