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North Dakota county

may become U.S.’s 1st
to bar new refugees

JAMES MacPHERSON hopes to share his story on
Associated Press Monday with members of a
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Reu- local commission who are
ben Panchol was forced to set to vote on whether their
leave war-torn Sudan de- county will stop accepting
cades ago as a child, em- refugees. If they vote to
barking on an odyssey that bar refugees, as expected,
eventually brought him to Burleigh County — home to
the American Midwest and about 95,000 people and
left him eternally grateful the capital city of Bismarck
to the country that took — could become the first
him in. “I am an American local government to do
citizen, a North Dakotan,” so since President Donald
said Panchol, a 38-year-old Trump issued an executive
father of four. “And without order making it possible.
North Dakota, I couldn’t Reuben Panchol is shown Friday, Dec. 6, 2019 at the North Dakota state capitol in Bismarck.
have made it.” Panchol Continued on Page 2 Associated Press