Senate Democrats Pressure Biden to Raise Refugee Admission Limit
A group of Senate Democrats is again pressuring President Joe Biden to raise the number of refugees being admitted into the United States in hopes that he would eventually increase the cap on refugees to 125,000 for the 2022 fiscal year, which begins in October.
Thirty-four Senate Democrats, led by Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), made their request in a letter on Tuesday while also urging him to set a 62,500 refugee cap for this fiscal year by May 15, 2021.
“Refugees are the most thoroughly vetted travelers to our country and can wait for years before they are resettled here. As of March 31, 2021, only 2,050 refugees had been resettled in the United States this fiscal year,” the lawmakers wrote.
Mitch McConnell said the GOP would be unlikely to support a stand-alone bill addressing the issue of "Dreamers" unless the legislation takes a broader swipe at resolving the border crisis.
GOP Senators Urge Biden to Take Swift Action to Address ‘Tragedy’ at Southern Border
A coalition of Republican senators who recently visited the southern border is urging President Joe Biden to take swift action and reverse his policy decisions that they say has caused the significant surge in illegal immigration in recent months.
The ten senators penned a letter to the White House detailing a harrowing account of their observations during a tour of the border and immigration facilities in late March. The senators said they witnessed first-hand human traffickers in action and recounted a distressing case of child sexual assault of a girl who was trafficked into the United States.
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The Biden era has offered a return to a more typical pattern one that features frequent spin and obfuscation or exaggeration. He devotes little time to social media and rarely faces reporters or speaks off the cuff.