Trump's travel ban: If the US won't take refugees, where would they go?

Refugees have limited rights to education, welfare and employment

On Holocaust Memorial Day 2017 and amid the world’s greatest refugee crisis since World War II, Donald Trump imposed a four-month suspension of all refugee admissions into the US and indefinitely banned entry to all Syrian refugees.

The president’s executive order suspends the US’s entire refugee resettlement programme – the largest in the world – for 120 days, and places a temporary 90-day ban on people from Syria, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, and Yemen.

Amid personal heart-break and tragedy for the people and families affected, mass protests have ignited