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US group helps resettle LGBTQ+ refugees fleeing violence, crackdowns

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President Joe Biden has sought to rebuild the refugee programs Donald Trump largely dismantled.

New refugee resettlement sites have opened across the country, and on Tuesday , the Biden administration announced that it resettled 100,000 refugees in fiscal year 2024 .

LGBTQ refugees are particularly vulnerable because they're coming from places "where their identities are criminalized, and they are at risk of imprisonment or even death".

Cabrel Ngounou , now 19 , met his new boyfriend in Tunisia , Tunisia .

He was hosted by a team of seven that included a lesbian couple, Anne Raeff and Lori Ostlund .

"Here I'm really me.. I feel free to have my boyfriend," he says.

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73

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75

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54

Article tone

informal

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English

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43

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likely offensive

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short-lived

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