Top Democrats In the Dark On Biden Plan To Lift Refugee Admissions – By Igor Bobic and Rowaida Abdelaziz (HuffPost) / Mar 16 2021
Joe Biden announced more than a month ago he planned to lift the cap on U.S. refugee admissions. Refugees are still waiting.
Refugees around the world are in the dark on when Joe Biden’s administration will lift the U.S. cap on resettlement admissions ― and congressional Democrats are, too.
Asked Tuesday when Biden will make good on his promise to restore refugee admissions, senior Democratic lawmakers said they don’t know when or what the reason is for the delay.
“They have consulted with us, talked about the numbers and their dramatic change in the Trump era. But in terms of the actual implementation of that, I don’t know their time table,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told HuffPost.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a leading critic of the Trump administration’s years-long war on refugee admissions, said she has heard “nothing” from the White House about the matter.
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