Refugee Ceiling News Today

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Hello america i mark levin this is life, Liberty Levin send a prewe prewhi prewe ht guests and et cetera ted cruz and Stephen Miller appeared before we get to our guests you are living through what is not only the worst presidency in American History when it comes to domestic and foreign affairs, but when it comes to our constitution the rule of law law and order which is the core of this republic he is dismantling and he is destroying it. He, the Department Of Justice and his cabinet. He, immed...

The refugee ceiling from 90,000 a year to 70,000. president obama worked to rebuild the resettlement system when the world needed it most. millions of middle eastern refugees were fleeing several bleed conflicts in the region. the bmw administration raise the ceiling to 85,000 refugees in 2016 and the next year obama proposed an increase to 110,000, but then a new president who had launched his campaign in a zeal of xenophobia came along and slashed that number. by 2020 the american refugee cap ...

Crafty way. whats happening here is what probably the public saw was the reporting about the refugee ceiling that was being decreased on a jiri basis under the trump administration. you see the travel ban order, you see the anti-refugee where theyre not going to do refugee resettlement at the beginning of the start of the administration. all of these things contribute to a scenario of like the reduction of resources at dhs and these offices that work these issues, the reduction of resources at s...

P2s p2s. -- >> you have this bureaucratic category of folks that were translators who worked with american ngos, people who have both helped the u.s., been allies, but also have credible fear of reprisal, when and now the government has fallen to the taliban. and you are saying that even years ago, miller was focused on shrinking and getting rid of the category, essentially deconstructing it so you can use it as a category to get people in. >> he doesnt in a very crafty way. whats happening here...

Because theres less of a guarantee of confidence and belief that this president is as popular as he was maybe just a week ago. >> donna, feel free to respond to that but i want to play you something olivia troy, our viewers are familiar with on this program. she said how the trump administration handled the issue of resettling afghan refugees talking about steven miller here. take a listen. >> you would say what do you want? do you want a little iraqs across the country, the united states? and i...

Individuals? >> well, it was really hard to hear his statements and they were said very openly in front of cabinet level people and very senior staff people and would say, well what do you want? do you want a bunch of little iraqs in stands across the country, across the united states. it was hurtful to hear that and offensive. to many of us in the room who had served on the ground in both countries. ive been to both countries. these are the people that helped keep us alive. helped navigate us a...

Could not attend, and i remember that so vividly because he wanted to be on record via that memo that was delivered during that meeting to really highlight the fact that we needed to figure out how we were going to get these translators -- and this is specifically on iraq -- into the pipeline when we were trying to basically, you know, reduce the refugee ceiling. that pipeline falls under that processing system, and he knew that the system was being under resourced and it was being targeted by p...

Under resourced, that they were overwhelmed. that they were working at number of things. and the response would be like, there is a border crisis. and their asylum seekers. yes, these people its, the same office that a lot of them handled the workload. and thats true. but why arent we resourcing them? when we talk about the mattis letter -- and the reason i mentioned that letter is because we were going to a cabinet meeting that he could not attend. and i remember that so vividly because he want...

Picks up our news coverage now. >> thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello, everyone. im alecia menendez. the massive high stakes operation to evacuate americans and their families in taliban held afghanistan. there are more than 80,000 afghans already waiting in a live and death situations. waiting to come to the u.s. the process is a refugee program gutted from the previous administration. this final year in office trump had the refugee ceiling at 50,000 down from the 100,000 refugees allo...