New York Daily News

Refugees at Don’s place

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PRESIDENT TRUMP’S childhood home had some new occupants over the weekend — refugees who shared their stories as a way to draw attention to the refugee crisis as the United Nations General Assembly convenes this week with Trump in attendance.

The three-story Tudor-style home in Queens that Trump’s father, Fred, built in 1940 is now a rental available on Airbnb that anyone can stay in for $725 a night. It was auctioned off to an unidentifi­ed buyer in March for $2.14 million, its second time going up for auction.

The internatio­nal anti-poverty organizati­on Oxfam rented it Saturday and invited four refugees to talk with journalist­s. The Republican President’s administra­tion issued travel bans on people from six Muslim-majority countries and all refugees. After various court challenges, the Supreme Court last week allowed the restrictiv­e policy on refugees to remain temporaril­y. The justices will hear arguments on the bans Oct. 10.

“We wanted to send a strong message to Trump and world leaders that they must do more to welcome refugees,” said Shannon Scribner, acting director for the humanitari­an department of Oxfam America.

Trump lived in the house on a tree-lined street of single-family dwellings until he was about 4, when his family moved to another home his father had built nearby.

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