Eighteen immigrants from Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan were resettled in the United States under the US Refugee Admissions Programme.

The group that consisted of three families, a woman and nine men left yesterday, bringing the total number of migrants who left Malta to resettle in the US since 2007 to 1,207, inclu-ding 89 this year. Since the start of the programme in 2008, the beneficiaries totalled 1,179.

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