Biden seeks to restore 'badly damaged' refugee resettlement program
Biden seeks to restore ‘badly damaged’ refugee resettlement program Abigail Hauslohner President Biden on Thursday signed an executive order to rebuild the United States’ refugee resettlement program “to help meet the unprecedented global need” after four years of rollbacks under President Donald Trump. “It’s going to take time to rebuild what has been so badly damaged,” Biden said during a speech at the State Department. The United States admitted 11,814 refugees between Oct. 1, 2019, and Sept. 30, 2020 — lower than any other year since the start of ...