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Diplomats to Tillerson: don’t eliminate state department’s refugee office
National security officials are arguing the elimination the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration would have ‘profound and negative implications’
- Reuters in Washington
- The Guardian
Forty former US diplomats and national security officials urged the secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, not to eliminate the state department office that handles refugees, in a letter seen by Reuters on Monday.
The letter argued that a Trump administration proposal to transfer the…