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President Jimmy Carter’s Refugee Legacy

 

Former President Jimmy Carter is in hospice care in his home state of Georgia.  We should not forget that, as President, Carter accepted refugees from Viet Name, signed the Refugee Act of 1980 into law, and responded to a wave of Cuban migration through an unprecedented boatlift. 

Read this CNN story on President Carter’s immigration achievements, which were not  popular politically. 

KJ

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