Biden administration to raise refugee cap to 125,000 for 2022
September 23, 2021
It was confirmed on Monday from State Department that the Biden administration is planning to raise the refugee cap for the fiscal year 2022 to 125,000, in line with the goal President Joe Biden set. Biden previously conceded that his goal of 125,000 refugee admissions within the first fiscal year of his presidency “will still be hard to hit,” but the expected ceiling indicates how many refugees may be admitted to the U.S. in the coming fiscal year. Earlier this year, the Biden administration went back and forth on raising the ceiling for the fiscal year 2021, and after blowback, raised it to 62,500 people. However, from October through August, only 7,637 refugees were admitted to the US, according to the Refugee Processing Center.
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