President Biden
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Speaking to reporters in Wilmington, Florida, at the end of a golf session on Saturday, Biden explained that he initially could not increase the limit due to the burdens faced by the Office of Refugee Resettlement Office (ORR). due to the influx of unaccompanied children. migrants on the southern border.
“We are going to increase the number. The problem was that part of the refugees were working on the crisis that ended at the border with the youth, ”Biden said according to a report from the White House pool.
“We could not do two things at once. But now we will increase the number “, he continued.
The comment comes a day after the White House reversed course on the decision to keep the number of refugees allowed in the United States at Trump-era levels. The decision was made after the rebound of Democrats who wanted to see an upper limit.
Biden signed an order on Friday to maintain the 15,000 refugee income limit for fiscal year 2021, a controversial number set by the former President Trump
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Several Democratic lawmakers, including members of the “squadron,” took to twitter to criticize the Biden administration’s decision.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.), asked the president to “stay” [his] they promise to “welcome immigrants.”
“Defending the Trump administration’s racist and xenophobic policies, including the historically low + fallen refugee hat, is completely wrong,” he tweeted.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), A beneficiary of the refugee program, he said on Twitter “It’s a shame that @POTUS is giving up a key promise to take in refugees.”
A powerful Democrat from the Senate, chairman of the judicial committee Dick Durbin (Ill.), He said that “the Biden Administration’s refugee admission target is unacceptable.”
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
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Like Biden’s comments on Saturday, Psaki said the initial decision was due to changes made by Trump and the ORR distribution of the influx of unaccompanied migrant children to the border.
“Over the past few weeks, he has been consulting with his advisers to determine how many refugees could actually be admitted to the United States by October 1,” Psaki said in part. “Given the refugee admissions program we have inherited and the Refugee Resettlement Office charges, its initial target of 62,500 seems unlikely.
ORR is the office of the Department of Health and Human Services that is responsible for housing minors.
The Wall Street Journal reported which has already raised $ 1.3 billion from its budget to manage the influx of migrants, which is likely to make it difficult to raise the refugee limit.
Biden aims to increase the refugee limit to 125,000 in his first year in office and has requested a $ 4.3 billion budget for ORR for 2022 with that goal in mind.