Biden seeks to restore 'badly damaged' refugee resettlement program
President Biden on Thursday said he plans to sign an executive order to rebuild the United States’ refugee resettlement program “to help meet the unprecedented global need” after four years of rollbacks under President Donald Trump.
“It’s going to take time to rebuild what has been so badly damaged,” Biden said during a speech at the State Department.
The United States admitted 11,814 refugees between Oct. 1, 2019, and Sept. 30, 2020 — lower than any other year since the start of the refugee program decades ago, and barely 14 percent of the number admitted in the last year of the Obama administration. Some states last year counted their newly arrived refugees in the single digits.
Biden said Thursday that he would raise the annual cap on refugee admissions to 125,000 for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, a figure more in line with the 2017 cap of 110,000 set by President Barack Obama a few months before he left office, and promptly slashed by Trump, who won election campaigning on an anti-immigrant, anti-refugee agenda.
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