{"id":1399576,"date":"2022-03-24T23:59:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T03:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399576"},"modified":"2022-03-24T23:59:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T03:59:53","slug":"democrats-ngos-demand-joe-biden-quickly-open-u-s-borders-to-ukrainians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-ngos-demand-joe-biden-quickly-open-u-s-borders-to-ukrainians\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats, NGOs Demand Joe Biden Quickly Open U.S. Borders to Ukrainians"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-ngos-demand-joe-biden-quickly-open-u-s-borders-to-ukrainians%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399576&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">House and Senate Democrats, as well as refugee contractors, are urging President Joe Biden to quickly fast-track Ukrainians into the United States using the same tools the administration used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/07\/joe-biden-to-continue-resettling-afghans-in-u-s-despite-vetting-failure\/\">import <\/a>over 85,000 Afghans since mid-August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Biden announced that he is planning to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/03\/24\/biden-welcomes-100000-ukrainian-migrants\/\">bring<\/a> about 100,000 Ukrainian nationals to the U.S. amidst the Ukraine-Russia conflict. House and Senate Democrats, though are urging for an even wider opening of borders to quickly get as many Ukrainians to the U.S. as possible.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreign.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/03-23-22%20RM%20Letter%20re%20Ukrainian%20Refugee%20Resettlement%20&#038;%20Humanitarian%20Parole.pdf\">authored<\/a> a letter to Biden where he pleaded with the administration to \u201cestablish a robust humanitarian parole program\u201d similar to the one used to bring tens of thousands of Afghans, some of whom were not adequately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/20\/defense-dept-biden-brought-unvetted-afghans-to-u-s-many-flagged-with-security-concerns-cannot-be-located\/\">vetted<\/a>, to the U.S. in a matter of months.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20363213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Joe-Biden-NATO-Associated-Press.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a media conference, after an extraordinary NATO summit and Group of Seven meeting, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo\/Markus Schreiber)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cGiven the global refugee crisis, and lessons learned from the Afghanistan evacuation, we need multiple legal pathways for Ukrainians to find safety in the United States,\u201d Menendez wrote.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Likewise, Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) wrote a letter to Biden weeks ago, asking that the administration \u201crapidly and significantly increase the number of refugees being resettled\u201d by fast-tracking the process for Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s expansion of refugee resettlement to Ukrainians should come as welcome news for the refugee contractors who have a financial stake in bringing as many refugees to the U.S. as possible as they are tasked and funded by the State Department to facilitate the resettlement.<\/p>\n<p>Executives with the Lutheran Immigration Refugee Service (LIRS),\u00a0Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), and World Relief <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/9OqDf\">told<\/a> <em>Politico<\/em> that they had hoped the Biden administration would hugely expand refugee resettlement to the U.S. from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe refugee program was created in 1980 to respond to emergency situations specifically so we wouldn\u2019t have to use humanitarian parole anymore,\u201d a HIAS executive complained. \u201cIt\u2019s become such a slow-moving program, that it\u2019s like an ambulance that moves at a glacial pace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every five years, refugee resettlement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/02\/05\/study-refugee-resettlement-costs-u-s-taxpayers-more-than-8b-in-five-years\/\">costs<\/a> taxpayers nearly $9 billion. Over the course of a lifetime, taxpayers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/03\/05\/study-american-taxpayers-billed-up-to-133k-per-refugee-resettled-in-u-s\/\">pay<\/a> about\u00a0$133,000\u00a0per refugee and within five years of resettlement, roughly 16 percent will need taxpayer-funded housing assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last 20 years, nearly a million refugees have been resettled in the nation \u2014 more than double that of residents living in Miami, Florida, and it would be the equivalent of annually adding the population of Pensacola, Florida.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House and Senate Democrats, as well as refugee contractors, are urging President Joe Biden to quickly fast-track Ukrainians into the United States using the same tools the administration used to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}