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Xi the Spineless
Posted on 4/19/21 at 10:11 am
Posted on 4/19/21 at 10:11 am
Biden to raise Trump's refugee cap after blowback
The Biden administration on Friday afternoon said it will raise the refugee cap by mid-May, a move that comes after swift backlash over an earlier announcement that it would keep in place the current historically low cap set by former President Donald Trump.
Earlier on Friday, President Joe Biden signed an emergency presidential determination that would leave the limit of 15,000 refugees set for this fiscal year by his predecessor. The announcement was met with immediate blowback from Democrats on Capitol Hill, immigrant advocates and refugee resettlement groups who regarded the news as a broken promise from the president, who has repeatedly vowed to welcome immigrants and refugees.
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The Biden administration on Friday afternoon said it will raise the refugee cap by mid-May, a move that comes after swift backlash over an earlier announcement that it would keep in place the current historically low cap set by former President Donald Trump.
Earlier on Friday, President Joe Biden signed an emergency presidential determination that would leave the limit of 15,000 refugees set for this fiscal year by his predecessor. The announcement was met with immediate blowback from Democrats on Capitol Hill, immigrant advocates and refugee resettlement groups who regarded the news as a broken promise from the president, who has repeatedly vowed to welcome immigrants and refugees.
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Posted on 4/19/21 at 10:13 am to Jbird
President* Biden the sock puppet.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 10:15 am to Auburn1968
We should all start referring to the “asterisk in chief” as Obama’s bitch in the White House
Posted on 4/19/21 at 10:16 am to Jbird
Posted on 4/19/21 at 10:21 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE
On Saturday, Biden also addressed his administration's backtracking.
"The problem was that the refugee part was working on the crisis that ended up on the border with young people,” Biden said, according to a pool report. “We couldn’t do two things at once. But now we are going to increase the number.”
The episode marked a rare flip-flop-flip for the president, and it yielded a barrage of denunciations from key allies who’d previously heaped praise on the administration for promising to rebuild the refugee resettlement program. Faith-based organizations that had lent valuable weight to Biden’s moral case against Trump during the election, said they still felt betrayed even after the White House issued its clarifying statement.
“He's basically broken his promise, and he's abandoned his commitment,” Jenny Yang, senior vice president of advocacy and policy at World Relief, said in an interview earlier on Friday. She later called the White House statement a “walk back” that changed little.
“That is the same excuse the Trump administration used,” said Nate Bult, vice president of government affairs for Bethany Christian Services, an evangelical nonprofit. When issuing its refugee admission determinations the Trump administration would add up “the total number of refugees resettled with the number of people seeking asylum in the US, and tried to conflate the two categories,” said Bult. “The Biden administration knows that asylum seekers and refugees are vastly different populations processed under two completely different paths, using different staff members and different federal agencies.” LINK
"The problem was that the refugee part was working on the crisis that ended up on the border with young people,” Biden said, according to a pool report. “We couldn’t do two things at once. But now we are going to increase the number.”
The episode marked a rare flip-flop-flip for the president, and it yielded a barrage of denunciations from key allies who’d previously heaped praise on the administration for promising to rebuild the refugee resettlement program. Faith-based organizations that had lent valuable weight to Biden’s moral case against Trump during the election, said they still felt betrayed even after the White House issued its clarifying statement.
“He's basically broken his promise, and he's abandoned his commitment,” Jenny Yang, senior vice president of advocacy and policy at World Relief, said in an interview earlier on Friday. She later called the White House statement a “walk back” that changed little.
“That is the same excuse the Trump administration used,” said Nate Bult, vice president of government affairs for Bethany Christian Services, an evangelical nonprofit. When issuing its refugee admission determinations the Trump administration would add up “the total number of refugees resettled with the number of people seeking asylum in the US, and tried to conflate the two categories,” said Bult. “The Biden administration knows that asylum seekers and refugees are vastly different populations processed under two completely different paths, using different staff members and different federal agencies.” LINK
Posted on 4/19/21 at 10:21 am to Reservoir Ag
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We should all start referring to the “asterisk in chief” as Obama’s bitch in the White House
I think you meant "ASSterisk in chief".
Posted on 4/19/21 at 10:26 am to Jbird
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Jenny Yang, senior vice president of advocacy and policy at World Relief
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said Nate Bult, vice president of government affairs for Bethany Christian Services, an evangelical nonprofit
Appears to be two people fighting for their gravy train to come into the station.
I knew I should have started a "nonprofit" organization a decade ago helping "Refugees".
Posted on 4/19/21 at 11:12 am to GusAU
Truth, this man speaks it!
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