A Refugee Solution for Biden â From 1944 History offers a bipartisan alternative to constant public controversies and policy reversals. In the span of a single day, the Biden administration announced that it would not increase this yearâs cap on refugee admissions from 15,000 â then promptly reversed its position. The administrationâs flip-flop has ignited protests from both liberal refugee advocates, who hope the new president will adopt a more generous policy, and conservatives, who want to maintain the low number established by President Trump. But whether the refugee cap is increased to 125,000 annually, as President Biden originally promised in February, or kept at the 15,000 level set by his predecessor, or ends up somewhere in between â as now seems likely â Americaâs policy of admitting refugees remains inadequate for meeting the human rights challenges of our era. Perhaps the time has come for a new approach â one based on a proposal first made in 1943-44.