ADThis fall, President Trump signed an executive order that, for the first time, gives states and cities the authority to veto refugee resettlements. “Regardless of political party, we value these people.”Until recently, that was true for the United States as a whole. The group traces its presence in the territory that became modern Utah to a mid-19th-century flight from persecution in the eastern United States. It’s to put them on a career path,” said Asha Parekh, director of the state-funded Utah Refugee Services Office. Halimo Ahmed Hassan, 50, had to leave her son behind when she fled her native Somalia and, in 2014, came to the United States.

Source: Washington Post December 02, 2019 22:57 UTC