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Arkansas Refugee Resettlement Agencies Respond to Federal Court Stay on Trump Ban

KUAF | By Jacqueline Froelich

Published February 6, 2017 at 1:09 PM CST

Emily Crane Linn inside Canopy's main office.

Arkansas’s two federally sanctioned refugee resettlement agencies are suddenly busy accommodating vetted and visa-ready refugees after a federal appeals court over the weekend temporarily halted President Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order barring refugees from entering the U.S. We talk with the resettlement director of Canopy NWA.

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Jacqueline Froelich

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.

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