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Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on World Refugee Day:

“As we commemorate World Refugee Day, and honor the 68.5 million people currently displaced worldwide, it is shameful how far the Trump Administration’s policies have fallen from the values upon which America was founded. The Statue of Liberty beckons, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Yet, despite the highest number of forcibly displaced people on record, the Trump Administration has drastically cut refugee assistance and refugee admissions to the United States, and the President is now implementing a heartless and inhumane policy of separating migrant families at the border. These reprehensible actions dishonor World Refugee Day, and cast a pall over Lady Liberty’s golden door.”