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Today's announcements also reinforce President Joe Biden's commitment to evidence-based decisions guided by the best available science and data.

For years now the results of the environmental crisis has led to the evacuation of cities and people losing their homes. Islands and coasts see their future most compromised, inciting migration to “safer” regions. These instances of dangerous climate change and migration in the Caribbean are captured by extraordinary Haitian photographer Cristina Baussan. Indeed, from heatwaves to flash floods, the Caribbean islands continue to be among the regions most threatened by climate change. Clim...

Politics Biden Admin To Turn Away Fleeing Cubans As Soros Group Calls For US To Accept Millions Of Climate Refugees Cubans fleeing a communist collapse denied entry while southern border remains open Image Credit: Email The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that any refugees fleeing the communist country of Cuba will be turned away from the U.S. if they try to enter. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said during a press conference, “If you take to the sea, you will not co...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers check the IDs of pedestrians crossing into the United States after reopening the San Ysidro Port of Entry Courtesy: USA Today The White House (77WABC) – President Biden signed an Executive Order on Monday to expand the United States Refugee Admissions Program for the upcoming fiscal year. The order will essentially increase refugee admissions in the United States from 15,000 to 62,500 due to what the White House says is “an unforseen emergency re...

Date Time Share The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in accordance with section 207(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (the “Act”) (8 U.S.C. 1157(b)), and after appropriate consultation with the Congress, I have determined that subsequent to the signing of Presidential Determination 2021-02 on October 27, 2020 (Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2021) (PD 2021-02), a...

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in accordance with section 207(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (the “Act”) (8 U.S.C. 1157(b)), and after appropriate consultation with the Congress, I have determined that subsequent to the signing of Presidential Determination 2021-02 on October 27, 2020 (Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2021) (PD 2021-02), an unforeseen emergency refugee si...

Bidens Executive Actions: President Unilaterally Changes Immigration Policy By Robert Law on March 15, 2021 Robert Law is the director of regulatory affairs and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. He would like to thank Josh Timko for his extensive research and analysis that informed the substance of this Backgrounder on the Biden immigration executive actions. President Biden issued over three dozen executive actions during his first month in office, many of them focused on immigrati...

The Challenge of Climate Change Migration As the United States builds a strategy that can address the security implications of climate change migration, it might instead seek to center its policy prescriptions on the most vulnerable in the country. Over the past decade, an average of 21.5 million people annually have been forced to move due to the impacts of extreme weather. That’s three times as many people as have been affected by conflict, and almost nine times as many as those who have fl...

President Biden’s Immigration Executive Actions: A Recap President Biden signs executive orders on immigration on Feb. 2, 2021, in the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) In his first weeks in office, President Biden issued several executive actions focused on reevaluating and unwinding the panoply of protectionist immigration policies former President Trump set in place through executive branch action. Some actions, like the Task Force on the Reunif...

U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order Thursday that denies state and local governments any authority to reject the drop-off of refugees into their towns and communities. In essence, former President Donald Trump's policy (Executive...