Posted on 06/21/2021 7:50:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi is praising President Joe Biden’s plan to bring four times as many refugees to the United States this year as former President Trump had planned.
In a statement this week, Grandi applauded Biden’s decision to increase the refugee resettlement cap for Fiscal Year 2021 to 62,500 — a more than 315 percent jump compared to the previously established cap of 15,000 refugees for the fiscal year.
“The whole pace will pick up in a few months,” Grandi told Voice of America in an interview. “In the whole of 2020, we only resettled 34,000 people [globally]. The year before was more than 100,000. The drop was enormous.”
“I don’t know if we’ll be able to get [to 62,500 admissions] that quickly,” Grandi said. “What is important is that there is an intention to get there.”
As of early May, Biden had resettled nearly 1,000 refugees across the U.S.
After the refugee lobby and Democrats denounced Biden’s original plan to keep the Trump-set refugee cap of 15,000 admissions for Fiscal Year 2021, the administration reversed course and announced they would boost the cap to 62,500 admissions.
Now, a group of House Republicans and Democrats want Biden to expand on the soaring refugee resettlement figures by fast-tracking Afghan nationals who worked with the U.S. armed forces into the U.S.
The lobbying effort comes as Department of Justice (DOJ) documents reveal that a similar program, established by former President George W. Bush and the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), for Iraqi nationals is plagued with fraud and abuse.
Federal investigators believe some 4,000 Iraqis filed fraudulent refugee applications as they review the cases of about 104,000 Iraqis who sought to enter the U.S. through the Bush-Kennedy “Direct Access” program.
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im fkn nauseous.
America Last.
The only surprise is that the one-worlders are actually admitting it.
This is what both parties cheated Trump out to get.
More foreigners.
How many of the huge numbers of immigrants from all around the World who have applied for LEGAL entry been allowed in here.
We’re supposed to be the most racist, horrible nation on the planet and yet everyone wants to get here. Human f’ing garbage pushing it’s way in here.
Shut the doors.
Kick out the UN.
“Refugees” my patootie.
How many unmarried or unaccompanied by their wives if married military age Muslim men?
<< America Last. >>
America First ....for destruction. We’re the globalists’ primary stumbling block. Their war plan: ideological subversion, open borders, rigged elections. Been working like a charm.
It’s very clear they culdn’t care what the citizens of the country think abut these refugees....these World Leaders are determined to flood western nations with uneducated 3rd worlders......so that we can educate them.
As if we needed any more proof Biden is bad for America and Americans. This clinches it.
Are those numbers /hour?
Let’s be more like Europe. One big mess.
ICYMI the UN would love a deluge of illegal immigrants in the US!
They have NGOs that work at the embassies that coach these savages on what to say to the State Dept clown conducting the interviews. In reality there’s no need for it, since the State Dept person is all about it, as long as these savages don’t live in Georgetown or some other upscale part of the DC area. Can’t have the savages frequenting the same bistros, cafes, and micro breweries as they do when they go home.
Pretty sad actually. As most of the folks working for the NGOs are college kids, from wealthy and/or connected, liberal families that will never have to live anywhere near these people.
That’s 62,500 less Third World mouths the U.N. has to feed, to the detriment of the USA. But they’ll still want the money allocated to feed them. Pukes.
Yay!
The United Nations is happy!
Woohoo!
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