The Biden administration changed its story on refugee admissions 6 times in 3 weeks
The Biden administration’s contradictory statements on refugees
The Biden administration changed its story on when and how it would increase the refugee admissions cap six times in three weeks. (JM Rieger/The Washington Post)
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JM Rieger
April 23, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. EDT
Originally, the Biden administration’s 2021 refugee cap would be raised to 62,500. Until it wouldn’t be.
Then the record low cap of 15,000 was “justified.†Until it wasn’t.
The record low cap had nothing to do with the migrant surge at the southern border. Until it did.
As President Biden reversed himself this month on a campaign promise to significantly increase the number of refugees admitted into the country, his administration repeatedly contradicted itself as it tried to explain the policy shift (which it later claimed wasn’t a “change in policyâ€). You can watch the Biden administration’s shifting explanations on the refugee admissions cap in the video above, and we’ll detail some of the key ones below.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/23/biden-administration-changed-its-story-refugee-admissions-six-times-three-weeks/