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Explain It to Me

America picked a lousy time to turn its back on refugees

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In an unexpectedly globe-hopping episode of The Weeds, Dara and Worldly co-host Zack Beauchamp examine the ripple effects of Trump’s America First attitude toward the refugee crisis. References and further reading: Politico article about how the Trump administration is slow walking refugee resettlement for 2018 with rumors of even lower levels for 2019 Trump's turn away from global leadership on refugee issues  The disqualifying comments of Trump's nominee to lead the International Organization for Migration  BBC piece on the regional Venezuelan conflict Zack's Today, Explained episode about Hungary Washington Post piece about the dire situation in Syria right now NY Times piece on Trump ending funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency Dara's Worldly episode  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Atlassian for projects impossible alone.

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Support for the show comes from Into the Mix,

0:33.0

a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced

0:36.0

with Fox Creative.

0:38.0

Thousands of Afghans were forced to flee their homes

0:40.0

and fear for their lives when the Taliban took control

0:42.0

of Afghanistan in 2021.

0:45.0

The UK government pledged to take in 20,000 of them as refugees.

0:49.0

But in the first year, only 22 Afghans have been approved

0:52.0

for asylum in the UK.

0:54.0

So what happened?

0:55.0

And what does this mean for the tens of thousands of people

0:57.0

left behind?

0:59.0

Hear that story on the latest episode of Into the Mix.

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