{"id":1661330,"date":"2022-09-28T03:34:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T07:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1661330"},"modified":"2022-09-28T03:35:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T07:35:34","slug":"biden-maintains-current-125000-cap-on-us-refugee-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-maintains-current-125000-cap-on-us-refugee-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Maintains Current 125,000 Cap on US Refugee Admissions"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fbiden-maintains-current-125000-cap-on-us-refugee-admissions%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=1661330&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>President Joe Biden on Sept. 27 announced that he will keep in place the current cap on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-refugee\">refugee<\/a> admissions at 125,000 for the fiscal year 2023, allowing hundreds of thousands of people fleeing\u00a0persecution to seek refuge in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In a Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2022\/09\/27\/memorandum-on-presidential-determination-on-refugee-admissions-for-fiscal-year-2023\/\">published<\/a> by the White House,\u00a0Biden said the cap on refugees will remain the same as it was in the past year, after he\u00a0doubled the cap on refugee admissions in September 2021 for the year ahead,\u00a0up from\u00a062,500.<\/p>\n<p>The 125,000 target \u201cis justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest,\u201d Biden wrote on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Fiscal Year 2023 begins on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hereby determine that assistance to or on behalf of persons applying for admission to the United States as part of the overseas refugee admissions program will contribute to the foreign policy interests of the United States,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the new cap, the fiscal year 2023 will allocate 40,000 refugee spots for Africa,\u00a035,000 for the Near East and South Asia; 15,000 for East Asia; 15,000 for Latin America and the Caribbean; and 15,000 for Europe and Central Asia. Another 5,000 spots remain in \u201cunallocated reserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 5,000 unallocated refugee numbers shall be allocated to regional ceilings, as needed,\u201d according to the administration.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Biden wrote: \u201cupon notification to the Judiciary Committees of the Congress, you are further authorized to transfer unused admissions allocated to a particular region to one or more other regions, if there is a need for greater admissions for the region or regions to which the admissions are being transferred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-lowers-refugee-limit-to-15000_3556266.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set a refugee cap of 15,000<\/a>\u00a0before the Biden administration raised that cap as part of Biden\u2019s move to welcome and support more refugees into the country, something he promised to do during his campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden on Sept. 27 announced that he will keep in place the current cap on\u00a0refugee admissions at 125,000 for the fiscal year 2023, allowing hundreds of thousands of people fleeing\u00a0persecution to seek refuge in the United States. 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