The administration did not release a country-specific breakdown. About 35,000 refugees would be accepted from Africa and 14,000 refugee slots were not listed as allocated.
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“The United States is deeply committed to assisting some of the world’s most vulnerable refugees through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program”. He briefed lawmakers on the revised figure on Tuesday.
According to a Military Times report, the 110,000 goal covers a 12-month period that will start this October.
In the last fiscal year, the USA took in 85,000 refugees and 10,000 of those were Syrians.
Amid doubts that war refugees could be utilized as instrument by terror groups to carry out their evil plans, the White House maintained that the program is safe and doesn’t pose a major threat to national security.
There’s been a steady increase in the refugee cap over the last couple of years.
The Obama administration has opposed that now-stalled legislation, noting that no Syrian or Iraqi refugees who have been admitted to the US have ever been implicated in an ISIS plot.
Haslam said he met recently with State Department officials and Catholic Charities and is convinced “they’re doing a good job” vetting refugees coming to Tennessee.
Obama is hosting a summit on refugees next week at the United Nations General Assembly, where the United States and other nations will showcase their efforts to address what has become a global humanitarian crisis.
Many Democrats, like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, have said that blocking refugees from the country is un-American.
The world is facing the largest refugee crisis since World War II.
“There’s a time now to have this rational discussion”, he said.
“It also empowers state and local governments to decide whether or not refugee resettlement is best for their communities”, his statement read. Myanmar sent almost 4,000 more refugees than it had in 2014, according to an analysis from the Migration Policy Institute.
The Syrian refugees arriving in Buffalo have not drawn much notice. A Rasmussen Reports survey survey found 49% of likely voters say no to any and all alleged Syrian refugees, while 20% said they would only support taking in 10,000 total. Nearly the entirety of the refugees arriving in the US from the UNHCR are women and children, of which half are under 18 years old. “This is an ethnic conflict that is going on 70 years and drives this country”.
Most of the accepted refugees have been authorized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
More than 4.8 million Syrians have fled their war-torn country but just one-fifth of 1 percent has been resettled in the USA, according to the State Department.
Albukaie said she understands fears about terrorism, but refugees go through a multi-year screening process.
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WASHINGTON ― President Barack Obama’s decision to bring 110,000 more refugees to America next year “is principled and is necessary”, Sen. Obama said Wednesday that the U.S.is prepared to lift sanctions “soon” to help boost investment in the country of 53 million people.
