The U.S. Is Rebuilding a Legal Pathway for Refugees. The Election Could Change That.
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The United States has allowed more than 40,000 refugees into the country in the first five months of the fiscal year after they passed a rigorous, often yearslong, screening process...
The figure represents a significant expansion of the refugee program, which is at the heart of U.S. laws that provide desperate people from around the world with a legal way to find safe haven in the United States...
The Biden administration is now on target to allow in 125,000 refugees this year, the most in three decades...
The Biden administration has been talking a big talk about resettling more refugees since Biden took office, said Julia Gelatt, an associate director at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research group in Washington...
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