Refugees and those who assist them say the process for obtaining a visa to come to the U.S. has become much more difficult.
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Erica Schmidt-Portnoy, the area director for Refugee Services of Texas in Austin says to not have refugees coming in is "hard to watch."
From KUT:
Texas has resettled dramatically fewer refugees in the past year, figures from Refugee Services of Texas show.
The organization said 3,518 people were resettled between October 2016 and March 2017. Between October 2017 and March of this year, only 736 were resettled. That’s a 79 percent decrease.
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