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Three weeks after taking office, Joe Biden announced that he would quadruple the number of refugees allowed into the United States. For HIAS, it seemed like an answered prayer, as the Jewish refugee aid agency had endured a rough four years under Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump.
And then nothing happened. Two months went by in which Biden did not actually raise the limit on refugees above 15,000, and would not say why, despite the prodding of HIAS and other refugee resettlers. More than 700 refugees who had received plane tickets based on Biden’s February promise had to cancel their flights, according to HIAS. On Friday, Biden made it official: He would not be raising the cap on refugees above the limit set by Trump, though he would let in refugees from a wider range of countries in Africa and the Middle East. Later in the day, following pushback from activists, th...
0 1 minute read Photo: Jewish activist Sha Harvey performs at the start of a Passover rally. Liberation photo Activists gathered outside the Kenosha Detention Center April 11 to demand the Biden administration stop the continued detention and dehumanization of immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, for legalization of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States and for the abolition of ICE. The rally, which was organized by Jewish leftist group Never Again Action and immigrants’ rights organization Voces de la Frontera, corresponded with the annual Jewish observanc...
(JTA) â Three weeks after taking office, Joe Biden announced that he would quadruple the number of refugees allowed into the United States. For HIAS, it seemed like an answered prayer, as the Jewish refugee aid agency had endured a rough four years under Bidenâs predecessor, Donald Trump. HIAS, which once focused on resettling refugees, had confronted the first president since World War II who demonized refugees and then temporarily banned them from the United States. The gunman who killed 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue condemned HIAS by name shortly before the massacre. So HIAS ...
Paola Hincapie Rendon will never forget the day U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopped her as she was taking her daughter to school in Chicago. âI was driving and I got stopped by ICE. They told me to pull over. I did. They told me to get out of the car. I (asked) them, `Why?â They wouldnât tell me,â said Rendon-Hincapie. She told of her experience to more than 60 people gathered Sunday in front of the Kenosha County Detention Center on 88th Avenue, where she was joined by a number of social justice groups, including Never Again Action and Voces de La Fron...