what it means effectively is the home secretary instructs officials to carry out a policy, in effect overruling or despite the concerns and objections of a senior official. it happens when a policy doesn t meet the usual criteria. in this case, it was all to do with the cost and whether it would represent value for money. civil servants not able to say or work out or quantify how much money this would cost the taxpayer in the or how much it would save compared to what the government is currently spending on processing asylum seekers and refugee system. the home secretary pushed ahead with it despite those concerns, sources close to priti patel saying just because the modelling wasn t available, they weren t able to quantify the cost, doesn t mean they shouldn t tackle an urgent issue already costing the taxpayer huge sums of money, up to £5 million per day at the moment. putting people up in hotels
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themselves to be lbgtq free zones. let me bring in erin morris, executive director of immigration quality. thank you for being with us. i understand you ve actually been able to talk to some people in ukraine. what are they telling you? well, thank you for having me. you know, i think, like a lot of refugees currently contemplating whether or not to leave ukraine, it s a really difficult decision. and for queer people in particular, leaving can have a lot of danger involved. and so a woman i spoke to yesterday was really concerned that her partner, that they have no legal relationship with one another. so negotiating how to stay together, when the international refugee system really requires that legal relationship, is really complicated. she was also seriously concerned for a transgender individual, whose i.d. document did not match her gender identity. and negotiating that can be really risky. so how do you help those
in ukraine. about 2.2 million are estimated to be in poland, which is also why it was significant for biden to choose poland where he is visiting today. but certainly you ve seen more focus from the administration on the humanitarian side of this conflict. the question is, can they actually accept as many refugees as they say they will? let s remember, humanitarian parole, while it s an expedited process, also not perfect. humanitarian parole is what the administration also used to evacuate afghans as well when kabul fell. right now you have they used that for 75,000 afghans, and that there are bureaucratic challenges for many of those people who have come to the country trying to navigate a really complicated system with a whole lot of the activists say the u.s. refugee system is basically broken. that is their argument. not just for ukrainians but also for central americans who are coming up as well. you have to look at the last four years as well to really look at all of
they re going to take in up to 100,000 refugees from ukraine doesn t mean that that s actually the number that s going to come to the united states. if you look, for this year, they were targeting 125,000 refugees worldwide and right now they re estimating just about 16,000 coming in. so this is all a tricky balance for the white house to play as they re trying to show that they are willing to accept these refugees. but really it s just a drop in the bucket also if you look at how many people are flowing out of ukraine into countries like poland that s gotten about 2 million refugees so far. and there s been significant backlogs in the refugee system here in the u.s. that s one of the problems the biden administration is contending with. so the question is, how do they do it? they are saying some of these refugees will be admitted through the traditional program. they are also looking at possibly using humanitarian parole which is more of an expedited way to get some refugees here. t