Public Pressure Forces Biden to Reverse Plan for More Refugees
16 Apr 2021
President Joe Biden’s team told selected reporters Friday they would not try to rush more refugees into American communities in 2021.
The planned 2021 inflow of 15,000 refugees was set in 2020 by President Donald Trump. Biden’s plan had promised to spike the 2021 inflow up to 62,500.
The
New York Timesreported:
The Biden administration will keep the target of refugee admissions for this year at the historically low level set by the Trump administration, walking back an earlier pledge to welcome more than 60,000 refugees into the United States.
A White House official told the