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Posted Apr 19, 2021, 9:57 am
Ryan Knappenberger
/Cronkite News
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.... Read more»
Posted Dec 29, 2020, 12:16 pm
Chase Hunter
/Cronkite News
President-elect Joe Biden has said that when he enters office next month, he plans to raise the number of refugees who can be admitted to the U.S. to 125,000 from the current cap of 15,000.... Read more»
Posted Sep 27, 2019, 12:41 pm
Kailey Broussard
/Cronkite News
White House officials announced late Thursday that the administration was proposing to cap the number of refugees admitted in the upcoming fiscal year to 18,000 people – with more than half those slots reserved for refugees from specific countries or in certain situations.... Read more»
Posted Jul 29, 2019, 10:03 am
Taniyah Williamson
/Cronkite News
The south Phoenix school, which has stood empty since 2007, is being transformed into the Phoenix Welcome Center, a shelter for migrant families seeking asylum in the United States.... Read more»
Posted Jan 23, 2018, 2:27 pm
Arren Kimbel-Sannit
/Cronkite News
President Trump campaigned on a promise of putting America first by scaling back its foreign involvements and pledging to stem the tide of refugees from Syria and elsewhere to address terrorism.... Read more»
Posted Mar 7, 2017, 5:01 pm
Andres Guerra Luz
/Cronkite News
President Trump signed a revised travel ban that dials back vetting procedures from his earlier order but keeps much of the rest – sparking similar debate. The changes did not impress Rep. Raul Grijalva, who said the only difference between it and the new version “is the time Trump and his cronies spent scheming up a plan to get it past our legal system.”... Read more»
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Posted Jun 16, 2016, 10:50 am
Alexa Ura
/Texas Tribune
Texas on Thursday lost its fight against the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state, ending a months-long battle during which Syrian refugees continued to arrive.... Read more»
Posted Sep 12, 2014, 12:39 pm
Emmanuel D'Harcourt
/GlobalPost
The media's single-minded focus on treatment is obscuring the most important fact about this current Ebola epidemic. It can be contained and stopped, within months, with tools already at hand, and at a reasonable cost.
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Posted Dec 10, 2013, 9:12 am
Pei Li
/Cronkite News Service
Visas to enter the U.S. are typically a hot commodity: The government stopped taking applications for its 2014 allotment of 65,000 H-1B work visas after just four days, for example. But not the T-visa. Of the 50,000 T-visas that have been offered over the last 10 years, the government has issued only 6,206 of the little-known visas meant to protect victims of human trafficking and their family members.... Read more»
