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US Homeland Security Chief: Security Upgrades Expected to Protect Refugee
Program

by Reuters

   WASHINGTON --

   New "security upgrades" to the U.S. refugee admissions program will
   help block criminals and other suspicious persons from entering the
   United States from high-risk nations, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary
   Kirstjen Nielsen said Monday.

   Nielsen, speaking at a public event in Washington, did not give further
   details. But she said the upgrades would be announced later Monday and
   would protect the refugee program from "being exploited by terrorists,
   criminals and fraudsters."