Posted on 02/18/2021 4:37:20 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When President Joe Biden announced two weeks ago that he was dramatically shifting the United States' approach to refugees, it was celebrated in some corners as a swift end to former President Donald Trump's years of rhetorical attacks and antagonistic policies.
"It's very good to know that there are countries like the U.S., there are people like the president willing to welcome more refugees," Amira Kherrallah, a 25-year-old refugee from Central African Republic who lives in Utah, told ABC News.
But while advocates and refugees are hopeful, those fleeing conflict and oppression around the world will not feel the impact right away -- or for months, at the earliest -- after the Trump administration all but dismantled the refugee admissions process, according to resettlement agencies.
"Infrastructure that had been built over four decades was ultimately decimated in four years," Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, the president and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.
From stringent -- critics say onerous -- vetting procedures overseas to layoffs and closures among agencies at home, the program doesn't currently have the capacity to admit the number of refugees the Biden White House has aimed for this year, agencies and advocates told ABC News. It will require renewed, long-term investment, they said.
"The Trump administration didn't just try to throw a wrench in the gears," Vignarajah said. "It actually tried to disassemble the entire resettlement infrastructure."
Trump banned immigration from several war-torn Muslim-majority countries where most refugees come from, including Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and Somalia, while Trump officials cut the number of officers processing refugee cases at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security. They also refused to take refugees referred to the U.S. by the United Nations after it had conducted its own vetting.
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Question for leftists. If we have a working UN, then why are there refugees anywhere in the world?
They make that sound like a bad thing. Dang, Americans are going to miss Trump.
We had a “resettlement infrastructure”?!
EXCUSE ME?!
ABC News/Disney are enemies of society.
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America will be far greater with more uneducated non Whites, that don’t care for our culture.
This is doubleplusgood.
They want to bring in refugees, pay for them your damn self.
gods blood I hate these sanctimonious parasites.
They want to bring in refugees, pay for them your damn self.
I think they're just activists using the "Lutheran" brand as a fig leaf.
America is the third most populous country on Earth.
We’re full. Send them somewhere else, preferably not Europe or Canada, or Australia as Whites are systemically racist people.
Another thing to regret for GW: all the ‘faith-based initiatives’.
It may have sounded good at the time as a way of getting the government out of certain things the government had no business doing, but it simply gave so many churches a spot at the table.
Now, they are swamp swine clamoring to be fed along with everyone else.
The fact that these leftists think it was a bad policy by Trump tells you everything. When a government puts foreign people ahead of its citizens then that government is illegal.
Of course the country needs more illegals coming into the country with no health screening to take low wage off the book jobs. It’s not like there is a health crisis in the U.S. or 10’s of millions of unemployed Americans looking for work.
“The Trump administration didn’t just try to throw a wrench in the gears,” Vignarajah said. “It actually tried to disassemble the entire resettlement infrastructure.”
President Trump - you’re the best! Thank you.
It’s time for some of these other countries to pick up the “refugee” programs. AMERICA IS NOT A “REFUGEE” CAMP!!! IT’S MY HOME!!!
More as sheep's clothing I would think.
Bush should be held to account giving us the Committee for State Security KGB or Homeland Security, and as a secondary malady the f'ing TSA.
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