VIDEO: John Oliver Explains Why We Seriously Don’t Need to Make U.S. Refugee Vetting Any Harder
All this anti-refugee talk in America has inspired HBO's "Last Week Tonight" host to give another impassioned speech about refugees, just in time for Thanksgiving, the commemoration of the only time in American history when "the fear of refugees wiping everyone out did actually come true."All this anti-refugee talk in America has inspired HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” host to give another impassioned speech about refugees, just in time for Thanksgiving, the commemoration of the only time in American history when “the fear of refugees wiping everyone out did actually come true.”
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