“America needs to rebuild our refugee resettlement program,” said Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, who said the administration would fill all 15,000 slots “and work with Congress on increasing admissions and building back numbers to which we’ve committed.”
But the changes to the program, and any potential rise in admissions next month, would be too late for some refugees who had prepared to travel to the United States this month after the administration made its initial commitment.
Asende Ecasa, 33, packed her belongings and left the Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania last month expecting to arrive in the United States on March 4. After Mr. Biden delayed the admissions designation, Ms. Ecasa’s flight was canceled. The medical screening she got to ensure her travel has expired.
The Biden Administration Ends Limits on the Use of Fetal Tissue for Research
The decision reverses Trump administration rules and allows scientists to use tissue derived from elective abortions to develop treatments for diseases like cancer and AIDS.
A researcher at Johns Hopkins University analyzing both adult and fetal tissue.Credit.Patrick Semansky/Associated Press
April 17, 2021, 2:10 p.m. ET
The Biden administration on Friday lifted restrictions on the use of fetal tissue for medical research, reversing rules imposed in 2019 by President Donald J. Trump.
The new rules, disclosed by the National Institutes of Health, allow scientists to use tissue derived from elective abortions to study and develop treatments for diseases including diabetes, cancer, AIDS and Covid-19.
Scott Cohen of Plainview, N.Y., nearly died from the effects of Covid-19 and received convalescent plasma as part of his treatment. When he later recovered, he went on to donate his own plasma 11 times.Credit.Desiree Rios for The New York Times
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The Covid-19 Plasma Boom Is Over. What Did We Learn From It?
The U.S. government invested $800 million in plasma when the country was desperate for Covid-19 treatments. A year later, the program has fizzled.
Scott Cohen of Plainview, N.Y., nearly died from the effects of Covid-19 and received convalescent plasma as part of his treatment. When he later recovered, he went on to donate his own plasma 11 times.Credit.Desiree Rios for The New York Times
Biden will keep Trump’s historically low limit on refugee admissions.
Refugees displaced by a government offensive at a tent camp in February in Afrin, Syria.Credit.Ivor Prickett for The New York Times
April 16, 2021, 12:35 p.m. ET
President Biden will limit the number of refugees allowed into the United States this year to the historically low level set by the Trump administration, reversing an earlier promise to welcome more than 60,000 people fleeing war and persecution into the country.
The decision signals Mr. Biden’s hesitant approach to rebuilding an immigration system gutted by his predecessor, who tried to close off the United States to immigrants. It also comes as the United States struggles with a surge of unaccompanied children and teenagers at the Mexican border.
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