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Corrections: Feb. 5, 2021 Feb. 4, 2021 INTERNATIONAL Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about the American refugee resettlement system misstated Barbara L. Strack’s comments. Ms. Strack, a former chief of the refugee affairs division at Citizenship and Immigration Services, said President Biden was likely to cite a global need for resettling refugees, not unlikely. NATIONAL An article on Jan. 31 that fact-checked the accuracy of President Biden’s comments during his first week in office described incorrectly the increase in the value of federal government contracts awarde...

Biden to Welcome More Refugees, but Far From All Will Get In Gutted by the Trump administration, the refugee resettlement system is unable to quickly process tens of thousands of the world’s neediest people. Ethiopian refugees in December in Hamdayet, Sudan, the first stop for new arrivals after crossing the border. President Donald J. Trump steadily lowered the annual cap on refugees allowed into the United States.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York Times Published Feb. 3, 2021Updated March 18, 2021 WASHINGTON — President Biden’s expected announcement on Thursday that he intends to allow...