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Title: White House: No quota, but priority for LGBT Syrian refugees
Post by: suzifrommd on December 10, 2015, 11:17:46 AM
White House: No quota, but priority for LGBT Syrian refugees

December 8, 2015 at 8:17 pm EST | by Chris Johnson

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/12/08/white-house-no-quota-but-priority-for-lgbt-syrian-refugees/

Amid reports of violence targeting LGBT people committed by the Islamic State of Iraq & Syria, the White House said Tuesday it won't set aside a specific number of slots for LGBT Syrian refugees, but will make cases of persecution like the kind faced by LGBT people a priority for asylum.