US third senior depart or be re-assigned from refugee work

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The U.S. diplomat in charge of refugee issues plans to leave his post within days, becoming the third senior U.S. official to depart or be re-assigned from refugee work in recent weeks.

Simon Henshaw, the acting assistant secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, told colleagues in the refugee sector in an e-mail seen by Reuters that he will be leaving the bureau at the end of next week.

Henshaw said on Saturday he was leaving his position in a routine professional move unrelated to the Trump administration’s policies, which have curtailed refugee admissions.