The #UnitedStates has allowed >40k #refugees into the country in the first 5 months of the fiscal yr after they passed a rigorous, often yearslong, #screening process that includes #security & #medical#vetting & interviews w/ American officers overseas.
The figure represents a significant expansion of the #refugee program, which is at the heart of #US#laws that provide desperate people from around the world w/ a #legal way to find #SafeHaven in the #UnitedStates.
The US has not granted refugee status to so many people in such a short period of time in >7 yrs. The #Biden admin is now on target to allow in 125k #refugees this yr.…
By comparison, ~64k refugees were admitted during the last 3 yrs of the #Trump admin.
…#immigration advocates fear that the [#Biden refugee program] gains will be wiped out if #Trump is elected. Trump has vowed to suspend the program if he takes office again, just as he did in 2017….
Trump has characterized the program as a #security threat, even though #refugees go through extensive background checks & screenings. He reassigned officers, shuttered overseas posts & slashed the number of refugees allowed into the country every yr.
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