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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — About 140 Somali refugees whose resettlement in the United States this week was stopped by President Donald Trump's executive order have been sent back to their refugee camp instead, one of the refugees said Saturday.

It was not clear why they were returned a day after a U.S. court order blocked Trump's ban on travelers and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries, including Somalia. Officials with the International Organization for Migration, which runs the transit center in Nairobi where the refugees had been waiting for their flights to the U.S., could not be reached for comment.

"How would you feel? One day you are telling friends bye, wishing them well, and the next you are back where you started," 28-year-old Nadir Hassan told The Associated Press by phone from the camp. "My home for 27 years was a refugee camp. I was hoping to start a new life in the U.S., get an education, a job, a life. We feel bad."

He had been on a waiting list to leave for about a decade, he said.

The fate of the Somali refugees is especially uncertain because Kenya's government has vowed to close their Dadaab camp, the world's largest, by the end of May, citing security concerns. Kenyan officials say the refugees will be returned to neighboring Somalia, where the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group continues to carry out deadly attacks in the capital, Mogadishu, and elsewhere.

The Kenyan government says al-Shabab uses Dadaab as a recruiting and training ground for extremists who attack Kenya, but it has not presented any proof.

Human rights groups have protested Kenya's plans to close Dadaab, saying some of the more than 250,000 refugees there have reported being pressured to leave the camp and that Somalia remains too unstable for people to return home. Refugees who have heeded Kenya's call to voluntarily leave have said they felt betrayed because assurances of safety and support went unfulfilled in Somalia.

A spokeswoman for the U.N. refugee agency, Yvonne Ndege, said Saturday the agency was looking at other ways of settling the refugees, including moving them to another camp in Kenya, Kakuma, which houses mostly people from South Sudan.

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[Maxim726X]

Look at all those potential terrorists our glorious president is saving us from!

USA! USA! USA!

 

[RinsFury]

Those poor people, I fucking hate Trump so much.

 

[davepoobond]

Fucking terrible

 

[Derwind]

As a Somali I am absolutely thankfully my family had the wealth, means and ability to escape Somalia before the civil war shattered the country.

If those factors didn't exist I might be one of those in the refugee camps or worse.

Thank god, there was no such ban in the early 90s.

 

[Izuna]

Oh this is fucking disgusting

Somali refugees have done so much for America

 

[FrenchToastDisciple]

As a resident of Minneapolis with many, many Somali neighbors, shit like this hits me the hardest and makes me want to fight back.

 

[N.Domixis]

But why, this wasn't one of the banned countries? Oh never mind I guess it is. Wasn't listed in the list I saw.

 

[How About No]

Fucking terrible :/

 

[Ottaro]

But why, this wasn't one of the banned countries? Oh never mind I guess it is. Wasn't listed in the list I saw.

From what i understand, ALL refugees are being denied for now. That was a different section of the order than the banned countries.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

"My home for 27 years was a refugee camp. I was hoping to start a new life in the U.S., get an education, a job, a life. We feel bad."

Goddamn, his entire life in a camp. It's absolutely deplorable it's this difficult.

 

[-Plasma Reus-]

But why, this wasn't one of the banned countries? Oh never mind I guess it is. Wasn't listed in the list I saw.

All refugees are banned for 3 months.
Syrian refugees are banned indefinitely.

 

[Goldfishking]

From what i understand, ALL refugees are being denied for now. That was a different section of the order than the banned countries.

All refugees? That's just insane.

 

[Ottaro]

All refugees are banned for 3 months.
Syrian refugees are banned indefinitely.

Yes.
We were planning to welcome 110,000 refugees in 2017. Trump's order brought that number down to 50,000

That's 60,000 people's lives dramatically changed.