FILE PHOTO: U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns speaks during a news conference in Tripoli Libya April 24, 2014. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Forty former U.S. diplomats and national security officials urged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson not to eliminate the State Department office that handles refugees in a letter seen by Reuters on Monday.
The letter argued that a Trump administration proposal to transfer the responsibilities of the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) to other agencies would undercut U.S. diplomatic leverage in grappling with foreign crises.
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