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Trump supporters see refugees as major threat

By our correspondents
May 06, 2016

WASHINGTON: Supporters of Donald Trump, the presumptive US Republican presidential nominee, see refugees arriving from Iraq and Syria as one of the greatest threats to the United States, according to a study released on Thursday by the Pew Research Center. Eighty-five percent of respondents who said they supported Trump saw the refugees fleeing the Islamic State militant group as a threat, compared with 74 percent of Republicans overall, said the study.