18,000: Administration Proposes a Record Low Refugee Admission Cap for FY 2020
(CNSNews.com) – The Trump administration is proposing to resettle 18,000 refugees in the United States in the new fiscal year, reducing last year’s record-low refugee admission ceiling by a further 40 percent.
“The United States anticipates receiving more than 368,000 new refugees and asylum claims in FY 2020,†the State Department said in a statement Thursday. “ Of them, 18,000 would be refugees we propose to resettle under the new refugee ceiling; we also anticipate processing more than 350,000 individuals in new asylum cases.â€
The final ceiling will be decided after consultation with Congress – as required by the Immigration and Nationality Act – but the Departments of State, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, in a report on Congress, are proposing an 18,000 limit.
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