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Refugees Invited By Charity Make Themselves At Home In Trump's Childhood Abode

Oxfam brought four refugees to tour Trump's boyhood home in Queens, N.Y., which had been available for rent through Airbnb to make a point about immigration.
Invited by Oxfam, resettled refugees Eiman Ali, Ghassan Shehadeh and Uyen Nguyen enter President Trump's childhood home in Queens, N.Y.

A welcome mat was literally rolled out for refugees resettled in the U.S. at a somewhat unexpected locale Saturday: President Trump's childhood home.

In a very pointed message, international charity Oxfam invited four refugees from three countries to spend the day at the Queens, N.Y., home where Trump spent his earliest years.

"Oxfam hosted refugees at President Trump's childhood home to declare that all people, refugees included, have the right to a safe place to call home,".

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