President Joe Biden says the U.S.’s admissions cap for refugees will increase from A record-low of 15K to 62K before September.
POTUS Joe Biden has announced that the #USA is quadrupling this year's refugee total. "I am revising the United States' annual refugee admissions cap to 62,500 for this fiscal year," the president said. "This erases the historically low number set by the previous administration of 15K, which did not reflect America's values as a nation that welcomes and supports refugees. The new admissions cap will also reinforce efforts that are already underway to expand the United States' capacity to admit refugees so that we can reach the goal of 125,000 refugee admissions that I intend to set for the coming fiscal year."
And the statute of liberty continues to shine and welcome all to the land of the brave and home of the free.
”Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
‘The U.S. Refugee Admissions Program embodies our commitment to protect the most vulnerable. It’s a statement about who we are, and who we want to be. That’s why today, I revised our annual cap from 15,000 — a historic low set by the previous administration — to 62,500.’
Meanwhile, The White House cancels all border wall projects paid for with funds diverted from the Pentagon. Immigration officials have reduced the number of unaccompanied minors held in Border Patrol facilities by 84 percent since March. Gilberto, who fled persecution in Guatemala and crossed the border alone, gained asylum in 2016. Now a high school graduate, he wants to be a firefighter.
