Pres. Obama Calls for 30% Increase in Refugees for FY17
Published:
Wed, Sep 14th 2016 @ 9:04 am EDT
Pres. Obama is demanding that Congress provide funding to resettle 110,000 refugees in FY2017. The request is an increase of 30% from FY2016 when Congress funded the resettlement of 85,000 refugees. In previous years, the United States resettled an average of 70,000 refugees per year.
The request comes just a week before Pres. Obama is scheduled to attend the Summit for Refugees and Migrants hosted by the United Nations. While his demand for the U.S. to resettle 110,000 refugees next fiscal year is an increase, it does fall well short of a request by a group of 41 non-governmental organizations who profit from refugee resettlement and were urging an increase to 200,000 per year.
"Despite opposition by the American people, a documented link between terrorism and individuals admitted to the United States as refugees, and over $19 trillion in debt, the Obama Administration has committed the United States to admitting 110,000 refugees during Fiscal Year 2017—a roughly 57 percent increase in the number of refugees the United States admitted as recently as FY 2015, and a roughly 29 percent increase from the Administration’s target for FY 2016," Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said in response to the President's request. "The common sense concerns of the American people are simply ignored as the Administration expands its reckless and extreme policies."
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