During his presidential campaign, US President Joe Biden pledged to increase the number of refugees who can come to the United States. The former US president Donald Trump administration set a refugee cap of 15,000 for this fiscal year, the lowest number in 41 years.
During a speech at the US State Department Thursday, the Biden administration announced that it would be increasing the number of refugees who can come to the United States to 125,000.
However, Biden must first consult Congress before setting the annual refugee admissions cap in the 12-month period starting October 1.
Biden on Tuesday signed three executive orders that aim to establish a task force that can reunite families separated at the US-Mexico border, determine root causes of migration from Central America and review the legal immigration system.
“I’m not making new law, I’m eliminating bad policy,” Biden said at the White House Tuesday, the Independent reported.
Biden’s pledge to increase the number of refugees has been welcomed by the UNHCR, the UN Refugee agency, which said that the pledge “reflects authentic humanitarian values and reaffirms US leadership amid global levels of forced displacement unseen since World War II.”
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