President Joe Biden on Thursday signed an executive order to increase refugee admissions to 125,000 by next year.
The action reverses policies implemented by former President Donald Trump that lowered refugee admissions from 110,000 during the Obama administration to a historic low of 15,000. Biden’s order also requires “excessive vetting of applicants” in order to raise the cap for the fiscal year 2022.
It states that Biden will propose an increase in refugee admissions for the current fiscal year “after appropriate consultation with Congress.”
“It’s going to take time to rebuild what has been so badly damaged, but that’s precisely what we’re going to do,” Biden said during remarks at the State Department on Thursday.
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During his tenure as president, Trump gradually reduced refugee admissions, capping them at 50,000 in 2017, then dropping them to 45,000 for 2018 and 30,000 in 2019, before hitting 18,000 for 2020.
In addition to expanding the total number of refugee admissions, Thursday’s executive order will enhance access for women, children and those at risk of persecution due to their gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation as well as review the Special Immigrant Visa Program for Iraqis and Syrians.
Biden also signed a pair of memorandums to protect and promote the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons throughout the world and modernize national security workforces.
The first memorandum directs relevant federal agencies to “engage constructively to advance protections for the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons abroad” including combating the criminalization of LGBTQI+ status or conduct and requiring annual State Department reports on human rights abuses worldwide.
The second memorandum seeks to ensure that the U.S. national security community recruits, retains and empowers a workforce that “reflects the unparalleled talent and diversity of our nation.”
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What’s the big deal just an additional 225,000 new democrat voters to further their evil agenda in the name of their democratic leader and savior satan. God please save America!
Another day, another executive order, and here come the voting block and the destruction of Social Security. Falling like dominoes everywhere we look. Precisely what the fake impeachment is all about, look here, don’t look at what the democrat/socialist termites are doing.
Divide and conquer is their mantra. And it’s laughable the Republicans are thinking they are going to take the House and the Senate. The socialists are making certain that never happens. Oh, there will be an election of sorts, just like the presidential election and we know what happened there.
Wait, i thought EO’s were evil, or was it only when Trump made them, that they were evil..
Letting more “refugees” into our Country. In other words letting more “illegal aliens” into our Country and having jobs filled based on “diversity” rather than on merit. Joe “the unifier”.
EVEN if only 20% of illegals, voted conservative, you can BET THE DEMS WOULD NOT want all them in this nation.
Just gathering more votes because they already used the dead ones now they need live ones. With satans army it’s not about helping America it’s about helping themselves to America.
THIS PROVES, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Democrats DO NOT care about Americans ! They want to INCREASE the Illegal Immigrants for VOTES, and don’t care a thing, about the burden it puts on America, or the possibility of DANGER, all they care about is POWER ! The Democrat Party has become a corrupt, and dangerous Party, and I would be very happy to NEVER SEE THEM in POWER, EVER again !
I honestly wonder, HAVE THEY EVER cared about Americans???
The Biden administration’s plan to drastically increase refugee admissions is a major threat to our national security since it will admit thousands of poorly vetted or unvetted Muslims from unstable Middle Eastern or North African countries. Some of these Muslims, who will already be radicalized, will have no desire to peacefully integrate into American society and respect our laws. Joe Biden’s refugee plan will greatly increase the possibly of deadly jihadi attacks like we suffered at Fort Hood, San Bernardino, NAS Pensacola, and the Pulse Nightclub.
This arbitrary number is meaningless. With our open borders, MILLIONS of illegal aliens will flood into our country,and turn it into a third world **** hole.
AND bring all the diseases they can!