Burma sent almost 4,000 more refugees than it had in 2014, according to an analysis from the Migration Policy Institute. No wonder Donald Trump’s Americans first message has caught on.
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Republicans have hammered the Obama administration’s new plans to increase the number of refugees.
Secretary of State John Kerry briefed Congress on Tuesday about the White House decision.
“Despite opposition by the American people, a documented link between terrorism and individuals admitted to the United States as refugees, and over trillion in debt, the Obama Administration has committed the United States to admitting 110,000 refugees during Fiscal Year 2017”, Sessions said in a statement. Just a few weeks ago, the State Department was hinting at a target of 100,000 refugees next year, and it’s not clear why the additional 10,000 were added.
Human rights advocates said the plight of Myanmar’s refugees is a prime reason the Obama administration should resist lifting the national emergency designation established by executive order in 1997 that allows the U.S.to restrict companies from doing business with specific entities in the country. At the current pace, some 30,000 could be approved for resettlement over the next 12 months.
Administration officials say refugees are subject to the most rigorous screening of any traveler to the United States.
“When it comes to the safety of America, we can’t afford to take a chance”, he said.
The country that sent the most refugees to America in 2015, according to an analysis by the Migration Policy Institute, was Burma, which has a longstanding ethnic conflict and sent 18,386 refugees that year.
“We are letting people come in from terrorist nations that shouldn’t be allowed because you can’t vet them”, Trump, who has built his campaign around an anti-immigration platform, said at a rally in Portland, Maine. At issue for many people – prominent Republicans among them – has been the vetting of refugees, especially after multiple, deadly attacks in France and Belgium.
US President Barack Obama’s administration plans to increase the number of refugees admitted to the United States in the 2017 fiscal year starting on October 1, nearly by one third, media reported.
Last November, 30 governors publicly asked Obama to stop admitting Syrians until security concerns could be addressed, fearing that terrorists could sneak into the country as refugees.
Before Obama’s new proposed goal can be met, a new president will be in office. The U.N.is trying to deal with the most refugees since World War II.
State attorneys general appealing that decision faced tough questioning Wednesday from a three-judge panel for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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USA is planning to increase the number of refugees accepted into the country to at least 1,10,000 in 2017. “That said, we have a statutory structure that says, basically, refugees can be resettled wherever they can be resettled”.
