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Re:Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Chall... by wheelerwj on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:20AM (#13507083)
> It doesn't sound like the two individuals in the article are actual persecuted refugees. The article doesn't elaborate on that.

Yes it does...

*The filing said he [Darweesh] had been directly targeted twice while working for the United States Military."

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Re:Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Chall... by zo1 on Sunday January 29, 2017 @03:02AM (#13512922)
So helping a defacto invading army and being targeted by the locals is now persecution? Scratch that, I guess I have a more narrow definition of what constitutes a valid refugee.

But yeah my bad I did miss that part of the article.

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