Refugees have moved into Donald Trump’s three-storey childhood home

Refugee partners (left to right) Abdi Iftin and Eiman Ali from Somalia, Uyen Nguyen from Vietnam, and Ghassan Shehadeh from Syria stayed in Donald Trump’s old home (Picture: Oxfam)

Four refugees – three of whom are from countries listed on Donald Trump’s travel ban – moved in to the President’s childhood home in New York to ‘send him a strong message’ that the US needs to be more welcoming.

The three-storey Tudor home in Queens, which was built by Mr Trump’s father Fred in 1940, is now available to rent on Airbnb for $725 (£535) a night.

It was auctioned off to an unidentified buyer in March for $2.14 million (£1.6 million).

But Oxfam has chosen to use the property to highlight the global refugee crisis. It put the refugees in the home for the weekend and chose two from Somalia and one from Syria, two of the countries listed in Mr Trump’s travel ban.

The 71-year-old issued travel bans on people from six countries and all refugees in a bid to boost security.

The Supreme Court last week allowed the restrictive policy on refugees to remain temporarily. The justices will hear arguments on the bans October 10.

Abdi Iftin was one of four refugees at Donald Trump’s childhood home on the weekend (Picture: Oxfam)

The group sat in the same room in which the US President was brought up (Picture: Oxfam)</p> <p>

Eiman Ali, from Somalia, called Donald Trump ‘outspoken’ (Picture: Oxfam)

‘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.

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

Eiman Ali, 22, was one of the refugees who stayed in the house. She said: ‘Knowing Donald Trump was here at the age of four makes me think about where I was at the age of four. We’re all kids who are raised to be productive citizens, who have all these dreams and hopes.

‘To have someone so outspoken against my community become the president of the United States was very eye-opening and hurtful because I have invested a lot in this country.’

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Oxfam displayed historical artefacts in the building (Picture: Oxfam)

Donald Trump lived in the home with his family from when he was born until he was four (Picture: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

And Ghassan al-Chahada, 41, a Syrian refugee who arrived in the United States with his wife and three children in 2012, said: ‘Before the conflict began in Syria we had dreams of coming to America.

‘For us it was a dream come true.

‘I had hopes I would get my green card and be able to visit my country.

‘But since Trump was elected I don’t dare, I don’t dare leave this country and not be able to come back.’