April 16, 2021
Children with papers to get bread for their families at a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon in this 2013 photo. Refugee resettlements in the U.S. are at an all-time low, and President Joe Biden balked Friday at raising the cap, though he vowed to do so later. (Photo by H. Murdock, VOA/Creative Commons)
WASHINGTON Refugee advocates were “deeply disappointed and frustrated” by the Biden administration’s failure Friday to reverse historically low Trump-era refugee limits this year, something then-candidate Joe Biden had promised to do.
The White House said Biden remains committed to raising the cap to 62,500, the number outlined in the administration’s budget request last week, but decided that goal is unrealistic for now, given the “decimated refugee admissions program we inherited” from the Trump administration.
Noem latest guv to push back on dumping illegal aliens
Friday, April 16, 2021 |
Chad Groening, Billy Davis (OneNewsNow.com)
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South Dakota’s governor Kristi Noem has become the latest state official to tell the federal government to beat feet when federal officials attempt to dump illegal immigrants there. South Dakota won t be taking any illegal immigrants that the Biden administration wants to relocate,” Noem, a Republican, stated via Twitter.
That announcement comes after Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s governor, issued an executive order prohibiting federal immigration agencies from dropping off minors in The Palmetto State.
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That has vexed immigrant advocates and experts who note the White House proposed a bill this year to address the same issue involved in the case. The proposed U.S. Citizenship Act, which faces long odds, would let Sanchez and Gonzalez apply for green cards given their current status – no matter how they entered the country. Look, this is a no brainer, said Paul Wickham Schmidt, a Georgetown University law professor and former immigration judge. Why waste time on it? The administration has indicated they d like to regularize many [TPS beneficiaries] and.instead they re defending a gimmick cooked up by Stephen Miller, Trump s onetime policy adviser.
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Prepare for a new era of debate over immigration. Should the Democratic-controlled Congress legalize undocumented workers and revamp the visa system? How will the Biden administration address root causes of Central American migration while meeting U.S. obligations to fairly consider asylum claims?
Organizations pushing to dramatically reduce immigration are already in the thick of it all.
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Some of these immigration-restriction groups have suffered image problems after research revealed a key founder’s racist anxiety over immigration from Latin America and other uncomfortable ties. Today, these groups often disseminate false claims arguing that too many immigrants are unskilled to contribute to the economy and that immigration is responsible for decades of decline in overall American wage rates.
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