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    White House Says Biden Will Increase Refugee Cap After Left-Wing Backlash

    White House Says Biden Will Increase Refugee Cap After Left-Wing Backlash

    BY JACK PHILLIPS
    April 16, 2021

    President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday issued a directive to keep the Trump administration’s cap on refugee limits, but hours later White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a statement saying Biden would “set a final, increased refugee cap for the remainder of this fiscal year by May 15.”

    Psaki made the statement after several left-wing lawmakers criticized keeping the maximum number of refugees allowed into the United States at 15,000, which was set by President Donald Trump. Biden’s administration previously said that it would lift the refugee cap to 62,500.

    Psaki added that there appears to be “some confusion” about the memo, saying Biden last week “sent Congress his budget for the fiscal year starting in October 2021, which honors his commitment” and was consulting advisers on the number of refugees who can be admitted into the United States between now and October.

    The memo published Friday would allow 7,000 refugees from Africa, 3,000 from Latin America and the Caribbean, 1,500 from South Asia, 1,500 from Europe and Central Asia, 1,000 from East Asia, and 1,000 from “unallocated reserve” countries, according to the order on Friday.

    “The admission of up to 15,000 refugees remains justified by humanitarian concerns and is otherwise in the national interest,” the White House said. “Should 15,000 admissions under the revised allocations for FY 2021 be reached prior to the end of the fiscal year and the emergency refugee situation persists, a subsequent Presidential Determination may be issued to increase admissions, as appropriate.”

    Some congressional Democrats and advocates have been pressuring the Biden administration to allow 125,000 refugees in the country annually.

    The White House also denied allegations that the move to keep the Trump-era limitation is because of the influx of illegal aliens at the Southern Border. Recent data released by Border Patrol showed that more than 172,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended by agents in March.

    “America needs to rebuild our refugee resettlement program,” Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, wrote in a tweet. “We will use all 15,000 slots under the new Determination and work with Congress on increasing admissions and building back to the numbers to which we’ve committed.”

    Some refugee resettlement groups criticized Friday’s decision.

    “We are reaching out to the White House to understand why this figure is a fraction of what the administration committed to in congressional consultations,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, reported NPR.

    Vignarajah added: “We know we find ourselves in challenging times, but we pray President Biden will fulfill his pledge to return the U.S. to our position of global leadership on refugee resettlement.”

    Progressive members of the Democratic Party also criticized the White House.

    “Biden promised to welcome immigrants, and people voted for him based on that promise,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), a self-described democratic socialist, wrote on Twitter. “Upholding the xenophobic and racist policies of the Trump admin, incl the historically low + plummeted refugee cap, is flat out wrong. Keep your promise.”

    The United States’ “refugee policy remains unacceptably draconian and discriminatory,” Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) wrote in a letter, adding they want to “express the urgent need” to boost the number of refugees to 62,500.

    The Epoch Times has contacted the White House for further comment.

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    Joe Biden Overrules Staff Plan, Raises Refugee Inflow

    Joe Biden Overrules Staff Plan, Raises Refugee Inflow

    by NEIL MUNRO 17 Apr 2021

    Pro-migration Democrats and business allies got President Joe Biden to quickly overrule a Friday announcement by his top staff that would have capped the 2021 inflow of refugees at 15,000.

    “The President’s directive today has been the subject of some confusion,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in an afternoon statement. “We expect the President to set a final, increased refugee cap for the remainder of this fiscal year by May 15,” she added.

    The Psaki announcement came a few hours after Jake Sullivan, Biden’s National Security Advisor, tweeted:

    America needs to rebuild our refugee resettlement program. We will use all 15,000 slots under the new Determination and work with Congress on increasing admissions and building back to the numbers to which we’ve committed.

    The scale of the reversal may not be known until May 15, when the final 2021 number is scheduled for release. But pro-migration groups are hoping that Biden will announce a 2021 goal of importing several tens-of-thousands of refugees before October, up from the 15,000 scheduled by former President Donald Trump.

    The Washington Post reported late on Friday:

    Late Friday, White House officials held a call with refugee advocates, during which deputy national security adviser Jon Finer said the cap would likely be lifted well before May 15, according to two people on the call. Finer also said that the administration would try to resettle refugees as soon as possible, rather than spreading out the admissions until Sept. 30, the people said. White House officials plan to hold another meeting with advocates next week, people with knowledge of the plans said.

    Biden’s afternoon reversal came after a furious backlash by pro-migration advocates, including senior Democrats, far-left advocates, and business groups.

    The morning statement setting the 15,000 level was slammed by Democrats, including Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). “This is unacceptable,” said Sen. Dick Durbin, (D-IL), the second-ranking Democrat Senator.

    The politicians’ protests were backed up by pro-migration advocates, including the FWD.us group of investors funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

    “We strongly urge President Biden to reverse this decision and commit to his prior promises to rebuild America’s refugee program,” said a quick statement from the FWD.us group, which supports almost any increased inflow of workers, consumers, and renters into the American economy.

    The tweeted statement by the wealthy investors suggested that Biden should overrule his top deputies, despite the polling crash caused by the pro-migration preferences of his appointee at the Department of Homeland Security:

    At some of our best moments, America has been a beacon of hope and a nation that actively seeks to welcome those seeking refuge—and at some of our worst, we turned our back on those very people in their time of greatest need … today’s decision is not only morally wrong, but will make the forced migration situation from Central America worse.

    We strongly urge President Biden to reverse this decision and commit to his prior promises to rebuild America’s refugee program.

    The Zuckerberg group of investors is the leading funder and advocate for more migration into Americans’ communities and workplaces. Many other like-minded groups that have received funds from Zuckerberg joined in the backlash.

    “Biden should revisit” the decision, said a tweet from Frank Sharry at the Zuckerberg-funded America’s Voice group. “This refugee decision [reeks] of politics. If that’s true, then it’s an unforced political error,” Sharry said in another tweet.

    “This decision is bullshit,” Sharry continued in another tweet.

    The National Immigration Forum — another recipient of Zuckerberg funds — joined in slamming the 15,000 announcement, saying:

    On the day the Biden administration decides to maintain refugee resettlement historic lows, I think about the Afghans who helped our military and what they must be thinking.

    Late on Friday, pro-migration advocates celebrated when Biden reversed the staff’s 15,000 decision.

    “This is a testament to the power that people’s movements, community advocates, & progressive coalitions have built,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

    “Thankful for that and the Biden admin’s decision to respond to organizers today. Now let’s get these families to their new homes here in the United States.”

    The Biden reversal will likely worsen public worries about his immigration policies.

    A White House official told the New York Times that the lower goal of 15,000 was picked because of public opposition to the border chaos:

    A senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the decision-making, said the administration grew concerned that the surge of border crossings by unaccompanied minors was too much and had already overwhelmed the refugee branch of the Department of Health and Human Services.

    The Washington Post reported April 16:

    People close to the White House’s decision-making have said they detected political concerns about expanding the refugee program at a moment when there is increasing pressure on Biden to be tougher on immigration and border security. Biden is dealing with a surge in the number of migrants arriving on the southern border, which has caused policy and political worries about immigration inside the White House, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

    Biden’s half-open, half-closed border has created chaos and has deeply damaged Biden’s poll numbers. Breitbart News reported April 15:

    Biden’s policies have gotten him 64 percent disapproval among independents, and 55 percent disapproval among Latinos, according to a Quinnipiac poll of 1,237 adults, conducted April 8-12.

    Just 22 percent of swing-voting independents and 27 percent of Latinos support Biden’s policy to extricate hundreds of thousands of migrants from their countries into a Hunger Games-style obstacle course, so they can be used in the U.S. economy.

    GOP voters strongly oppose these policies, so the Quinnipiac numbers translate into a national disapproval rate of 55 percent, with just 29 percent approval for Biden’s immigration policy.

    The refugee programs are unpopular among ordinary Americans because they shift elite attention from Americans’ concerns by pushing foreign migrants into Americans’ towns. That population shift helps to push down wages, raise rents, crowd schools, fracture stable communities, shrivel investment in labor-saving machinery, and redirect corporate investment to the coastal states.

    The programs are supported by low-wage employers, university leftists, landlords, retailers, and organizations that receive taxpayer dollars to settle the refugees.

    Most refugees settle in coastal states, pushing up rents and capping wages for nearby Americans, such as those living in Ocasio-Cortez’s district.

    That skew hides much of the program’s damaging impact. But people in heartland states also lose when refugees settle in coastal states because the arrival of foreign labor allows coastal investors to focus their job-creating investments near their coastal homes, not in the interior states, such as West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky.

    Refugees are put on a fast-track to citizenship and can import additional family members via chain migration. The growing population of Democrat-voting Somalis in the United States is the most obvious impact of the nation’s expensive refugee program.

    If each migrant brings in just five relatives, then a 2021 goal of 30,000 refugees will eventually deliver 180,000 refugees. The New York Times sketched the chain-migration process:

    Asende Ecasa, 33, packed her belongings and left the Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania last month expecting to arrive in the United States on March 4. After Mr. Biden delayed the admissions designation, Ms. Ecasa’s flight was canceled. The medical screening she got to ensure her travel has expired.

    Her cousin Alex Majaliwa, who lives in Grand Rapids, Mich., now has no idea when Ms. Ecasa will be allowed into the country.

    “If possible, the president can really hear our suffering because we want to come to the nation to find our life, to improve our lives,” Mr. Majaliwa said. It took him years to be approved for resettlement in America.

    For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, intra-Democratic, rational, and recognizes the solidarity that Americans owe to each other.



    Neil Munro
    @NeilMunroDC

    Two more polls show the chaos of Joe Biden's half-open/half-closed border is damaging his ratings with independents & Latinos who recognize the harms. GOP leaders are changing their talking points to maximize their gain from the progressives' ambition



    Joe Biden's Border Chaos Crashes His Poll Numbers
    Biden's half-open border is creating chaos south of the border -- and pulverizing his support among Latino and swing voters in the north.
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    5:58 PM · Apr 15, 2021

    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/04/17/joe-biden-overrules-staff-raises-refugee-inflow/





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    We have a massive homeless problem with thousands of Americans living in the streets, roads, gutters, and parks in tents and under tarps.

    Our government has NO business bringing in any refugees, asylum, TPS, or illegal aliens into our country right now!

    Put a pause on all immigration.
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    Sullivan: Biden ‘Absolutely Committed’ to Raising Trump’s Refugee Cap

    Sullivan: Biden ‘Absolutely Committed’ to Raising Trump’s Refugee Cap

    by PAM KEY 18 Apr 2021

    President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan confirmed on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that President Joe Biden will raise the cap on refugees allowed to enter America by former President Donald Trump, which Sullivan said was rooted in “racism.”

    Anchor Chris Wallace said, “On Friday morning, the president indicated that he was going to stick with the refugee cap set by President Trump last year. Not the 62,500 refugees the administration promised in February to allow into the U.S., but instead just 15,000 refugees this year. Then, under a storm of criticism, the president backed down within hours Friday afternoon and said he would set a higher cap in May. What happened?”

    Sullivan said, “Well, first of all, we faced two problems when we came in. There was the problem of the cap, 15,000, and there was a problem of the allocation, which was that the Trump administration had said zero people can come from Africa, effectively zero people could come from the Middle East, and so the president wanted to go with this into steps. The first step was to change the allocation so that people in Africa could literally get on planes this week, and the second would be to raise the cap as we were fixing the system and its processing. He took the first step this past week, he will take the second step in the weeks ahead, and I think there was some misunderstanding on Friday about the import of his decision Friday morning, which was focused on the allocation, not on the cap.”

    Sullivan said, “The Office of Refugee Resettlement is the same office that handles both unaccompanied children at the border and refugees coming in from around the world.

    So as it turns out, President Biden and his team had to dig into whether we could allocate the resources effectively to be able to get folks into the refugee pipeline and into the United States. He is absolutely committed to making sure that not only is America welcoming to refugees, not only do we get people on planes immediately by changing those allocations, which were rooted in xenophobia and even racism, but also that we raise the cap. He is committed to that, and he will follow through on that.”

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