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I'm not too worried about this right now during a pandemic. It better not be this low after the pandemic tho.
Edit: after reading a little more into it, yeah, this doesn't seem like a very good move for the Biden admin.
Edit: after reading a little more into it, yeah, this doesn't seem like a very good move for the Biden admin.
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Seeing as america has happily allowed travellers from plenty of places during the whole pandemic, including from countries on the banned list if the person is married to a US citizen or Green card holder, there shouldn't be any issue with allowing refugees who have already been awarded the right to come to the usa in. The mindset that a pandemic would stop that is a bad one when they'd happily let people in for other less important reasons from elsewhere. There are people who got granted the right to come to America under refugee status who had their flights cancelled and have been sat waiting for Biden to sign paperwork to allow them to actually fly using their status, the insanely low number of allowed refugees have held them up.
They definitely did. People in Homeland Security who were doing the interviews for the overseas screenings got reassigned to jobs here in the US. It takes time to train people and move them back to Chad or Kenya or Istanbul to screen Syrians and Somalis.
Also it should be noted that the cap is not the limiting factor on refugees because 1) Biden can hike it unilaterally if we reach 15k anyway:
and 2) a refugee starting the process today will take two years before they get resettled in the US. So the limiting factor on pipeline right now is the intake apparatus, and the degree to which Biden is spinning that up is how he should be judged, IMO.
All that said, I don't mind criticism of Biden on this issue — prodding him to do better is a normal and good thing for activists to do. But I do think there's a good bit of theater here.
"This will give us street cred with our GOP counterparts"
GOP Counterparts: LOL eat shit.
It's the one area where his admin is polling poorly, and they think that being more conservative is the answer? Good luck with that nonsense.
GOP Counterparts: LOL eat shit.
It's the one area where his admin is polling poorly, and they think that being more conservative is the answer? Good luck with that nonsense.
Should be noted that there's still a commitment to raise it to 125,000 in October for the next fiscal year, but it should also be noted that we'll likely have another excuse for why we can't raise it to that number either when the time arrives.
I don't know. The people I know who work in the field have been saying all year that the cap, per se, is meaningless to how many refugees actually get resettled anytime soon. I think if I were a refugee I would find this news discouraging, but I'm not sure it directly harms anyone, either. It's a question of optics and politics, and I don't know anyone who said Biden never fucks up the optics or politics. But it also seems like most people who think they care about this issue don't read past the headlines, so the politics around the issue seem rather bonkers in general.
I understand why so many people in refugee resettlement wish they could go back to being a program that largely flew under the public's radar. Hell, Kentucky is one of the top resettlement states specifically because Kentuckians didn't notice refugee resettlement was happening until Trump drew attention to it.
Biden record on immigration and border policy has to be by far the most disappointing aspect of his presidency at this point
His second big decision this week to disappoint me, but I'll give him the benefit of doubt on this issue, given Trump possibly imploding the infrastructure and the pandemic going on. Hopefully next year will be different.
If the reason for this decision is because Trump destroyed our capacity to take in more refugees, which I assume it is, the administration should be making that abundantly clear. It's hard to determine yet if this is a policy failure but it is clearly a messaging failure.
I don't know, but I wouldn't count it as malice on his part since it doesn't match his foreign policy goals or attitudes.
Still a shit situation to be certain.
I take issue with this quote:
"The 62,500 number was vetted by everybody and *was* the rebuilding before admitting 125,000 refugees next year. This was clearly a political decision."
That number of post-Trump refugee admission always was a political number. No one was expecting the US to resettle anywhere near 62,500 — I personally heard optimistic estimates in the 30k range earlier this year. And Biden specifically reserves the right to raise to 30k, 63k, or any number whatsoever if we hit 15k. This outrage is not really about the number of refugees who'll come in next year, but about the message we're sending about refugee resettlement. That's a perfectly fine debate to have, but let's be clear about what's actually at stake here and what isn't.
During a pandemic? I wouldn't be so quick to. But only for that reason.
Well is there a stated reason or explanation, or even a speculated on, or is the takeaway/implication here supposed to be that the Biden admin hates refugees as much as Trump/Miller?
When the Biden administration went to Congress in February and said that they did a thorough inter-agency analysis and decided that accepting 62,500 refugees in FY2021 is both doable and justified by grave humanitarian concerns and is in the national interest I didn't think that they were lying.
Report to Congress on the Proposed Emergency Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2021 - United States Department of State
This report to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the Senate is being sent in advance of the appropriate consultation pursuant to the statutory requirements of Sections 207(b) and (e) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. § 1157(b) and (e). The report provides the information...
www.state.gov
People should be reading this.
it wouldn't matter if it were 100k cap or a million cap, they can't even take in what the cap is now because they simply do not have an apparatus to do so
Biden is to announce an increased final cap on May 15
I don't think that they were lying, but I do think they were figuring out a politically positive number. All I can say is that 63k is roughly double what people in refugee resettlement agencies were realistically expecting to happen that year.When the Biden administration went to Congress in February and said that they did a thorough inter-agency analysis and decided that accepting 62,500 refugees in FY2021 is both doable and justified by grave humanitarian concerns and is in the national interest I didn't think that they were lying.
Report to Congress on the Proposed Emergency Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2021 - United States Department of State
This report to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the Senate is being sent in advance of the appropriate consultation pursuant to the statutory requirements of Sections 207(b) and (e) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. § 1157(b) and (e). The report provides the information...
Is this rollback or was this just deceptive reporting by the part of the NYT in the first place?
The more Fox News parrots Great Replacement talking points the more success the right will have.
So are you also going to demand the usa shut down all travel to the usa? Because they haven't done so. As I said earlier, the pandemic is a shitty reason to not let in refugees, some of which have already had the checks done and are waiting to be able to fly but can't because the stupid low cap on people allowed in under that program. Especially when the usa would have no issues with letting people in from other places under less important reasons. Even countries on the banned travel list have exemptions for family of green card holders or us citizens so they can go into the usa right now.
Why can't they allow refugees to travel under the same checks that those have to do? America started shit all over the world and some of those people who lived in those areas now need to leave, but now have to sit around waiting because the usa has decided their own crisis is the only that matters. It's honestly ridiculous that people think world aid and shit needs to stop when a pandemic happens.
I'm absolutely dreading for the almost unavoidable bloodbath post Aghanistan withdrawal as the US abandons the interpreters who have risked their lives to protect US forces, just like they did in Saigon and just like the cold shoulder the Kurds received. This Refugee cap absolutely needed to be lifted to help some of them who have been in limbo for close to a decade, not counting the others who have been murdered waiting.
Not sure but no doubt the pressure lit a fire under their ass to respond quickly.
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Hahahhahahahahahahaha this is the fucking loser so many of you ran to the polls to vote for. Don't even start with the bullshit were people defend this that Trump isn't doing it, like a lot of people are doing with the children STILL in cages.
Hmm. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...n-on-refugee-admissions-for-fiscal-year-2021/
It states,
So hedging his bets. Well the outcry should ensure more than 15k get in at least. Hopefully we can hit 50k.
I'll run right back to the polls to vote for him again ya dofus, still 100 times better than Trump. A cookie would be a better President than trump.
Candidate Biden and President Biden are apparently two different people.
Cool bro.
Ah, thanks. I guess we'll see what ends up happening then.
Seems to say
1. Based on the current humanitarian crisis, the allocation of refugees from different regions is being adjusted
2. If we reach 15k and there's still a crisis the cap will be adjusted
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Why does it even require a walk back? Like got damn do the Democrats and Biden have issues with their messaging.
But if that's the bar than George Bush is in the running for greatest president of all-time. The standard for the rest of our lives can't just be "better than Trump". I don't want that to be America for the next 40 years.
But if that's the bar than George Bush is in the running for greatest president of all-time. The standard for the rest of our lives can't just be "better than Trump". I don't want that to be America for the next 40 years.