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Opinion: Bill Frelick: America’s definition of ‘refugee’ needs an update
By Bill Frelick American leaders of all political stripes lament the nation’s broken asylum system, but they also fall lockstep into short-sighted, reactive fixes that don’t solve the underlying problem: an outdated and unresponsive refugee definition that …