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New Trump Travel Restrictions Will Impact Refugee Families, Canopy Says

J. Froelich
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KUAF
Emily Crane Linn, right, stands with a refugee family from Africa, resettled in northwest Arkansas by Canopy NWA.

President Trump is expanding travel restrictions to the U.S. to seven more nations, according to a White House statement issued on Friday. Emily Crane Linn, executive director of Canopy Northwest Arkansas, says the expanded travel restrictions will indirectly affect resettled U.S. refugee families here.

 

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.
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