Media Mentions

Mar 7, 2017

Leon Rodriguez was quoted in the San Diego Union Tribune

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Leon Rodriguez was quoted in "Syrian family's harrowing journey brought them to El Cajon," a March 7 story from the San Diego Union Tribune on President Trump’s new executive order, signed Monday, which will greatly complicate matters for Syrian families hoping to seek refuge in the United States. Rodriguez said that when he worked for the Department of Homeland Security, the process for screening Syrians was based on an assumption that the Syrian government would not give any information to the U.S. about them, and the U.S. was able to work around that to verify identities and histories.

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