The Rev. Seth-Kaper Dale's phone began bursting with messages and emails late Thursday following news that President Joe Biden was officially pledging to revamp the beleaguered U.S. refugee program. Biden had signed an executive order pledging to rebuild the resettlement program that had been gutted during the Trump administration and to raise admissions to 125,000 in the fiscal year starting Oct. 1. "Hallelujah," said Kaper-Dale, who runs Interfaith-RISE, a refugee resettlement program based in Highland Park. "It's nice to be in a space where leadership once again believes in being leaders in service." Interfaith-RISE is one of several resettlement agencies in New Jersey that have watched years of consecutive cuts to refugee admissions, despite what the United Nations has called record levels of displacement around the world. Advocates welcomed the news that the U.S. would increase admissions, but warned that the Biden administration has a lot of work ahead to restore the program.