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Biden’s election promises to welcome refugees are starting to seem hollow
 

Jasmine Norden
19th April 2021
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Thousands of refugees could suffer in limbo if Biden doesn’t act to decisively improve Trump-era immigration policy. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) said the Biden administration is currently on track to allow the lowest number of refugees into the US of any president, despite election promises to welcome them.

This comes after the president announced on 16 April he wouldn’t raise Trump’s 15,000 annual cap on refugees, even though in February he promised to increase the cap to 62,500. However, after criticism he backtracked and said he would increase the cap, except he hasn’t specified by how much. With 100,000 refugees suffering as they wait to enter the US, Biden has been criticised for the confusion. Julián Castro, former housing and urban development secretary, said:

    We can’t allow refugees and asylum-seekers to sit and suffer because of Washington politics.

Emergency directive

On 16 April, Joe Biden signed an executive order that extended his predecessor’s 15,000 refugee cap until the end of the fiscal year in September. The order said the cap:

https://www.thecanary.co/us/us-analysis/2021/04/19/bidens-election-promises-to-welcome-refugees-are-starting-to-seem-hollow/