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They’re the refugees that Trump tried to stop. But now they’re here, and they’re ‘becoming Americans.’

GRAPEVINE, Tex. — On the day that President Trump slashed refugee admissions to their lowest level in four decades, the arrival of a dazed traveler at Dallas’s international airport last month offered a quiet rebuke.

The newcomer was walking the final steps of an improbable 15,000-mile odyssey. There to greet him were four others who had followed the same epic path to an American life, along with a native-born citizen clutching a hand-drawn, red-and-blue sign: “Welcome to Texas!”

None would have been there had Trump had his way.

View the complete October 12 article by Griff Witte on The Washington Post website here.

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