Trump refugee policy leaves thousands stranded outside U.S.
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Article publisher:
Denver Post
Article date:
10 October 2018
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
... The U.S. admitted 22,491 refugees in the budget year that ended Sept. 30. That’s one-quarter of the number allowed to enter two years ago and the lowest since Congress passed a law in 1980 creating the modern resettlement system.
It was less than half the maximum that the administration had said it would allow, even with millions of people seeking to escape war and famine around the world....
Last month, the cap was set even lower, at 30,000, for the new budget year. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at the time the U.S. remained “the most generous nation in the world when it comes to protection-based immigration,” but that the government needed to work through a backlog of pending asylum cases and support efforts to resettle people closer to home, so they can eventually return.
Behind the reduction are more stringent security protocols for citizens of 11 countries designated by the administration as presenting the greatest potential threat. People from four of them — Iraq, Iran, Syria and Somalia — made up 41 percent of refugees allowed into the U.S. in 2016 and 2017...
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