{"id":429951,"date":"2021-04-16T10:50:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T14:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=429951"},"modified":"2021-04-16T10:50:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T14:50:42","slug":"speaker-pelosi-presses-biden-to-accept-more-refugees-into-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-pelosi-presses-biden-to-accept-more-refugees-into-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Pelosi presses Biden to accept more refugees into U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fspeaker-pelosi-presses-biden-to-accept-more-refugees-into-u-s%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=429951&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--><div id=\"attachment_2398534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2398534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 In this Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019 file photo, a migrant walks through a refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico Migrant families will be held at hotels in the Phoenix area in response to a growing number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said Friday, April 9, 2021 another step in the Biden administration\u2019s rush to set up temporary space for them. (AP Photo\/Eric Gay File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 7:38 AM PT \u2013 Friday, April 16, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took an apparent jab at Joe Biden while pushing him to accept more refugees into the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>While s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XMjU4CA70tw\">peaking to reporters Thursday<\/a>, Pelosi dropped subtle hints for Biden to raise the current cap of refugees allowed into the U.S. She claimed it was the White House\u2019s moral responsibility to take them in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we have to recognize our moral responsibility as we see other countries take in refugees,\u201d stated the House Speaker. \u201cI think right now we have, well it\u2019s a very few thousand, and we have to increase that number.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under the Trump administration, the cap was cut to 15,000 from the previous cap of 85,000. Pelosi strongly opposed this move at the time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pelosi: \u201cThe fact is that we&#8217;re on a good path at the border under leadership of President Biden. It\u2019s about restructuring how we do what is happening there because we were in a very bad situation under the Trump administration. It&#8217;s about a refugee plan\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XUU1iiyZte\">pic.twitter.com\/XUU1iiyZte<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mona Salama (@MonaSalama_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MonaSalama_\/status\/1379900010637189121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In February, Biden vowed to restore and increase that cap to 125,000. However, human rights groups are hammering Biden while noting he has not kept his word.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/rep-malliotakis-visits-the-border-amid-migrant-crisis\/\"> Rep. Malliotakis visits the border amid migrant crisis<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE \u2013 In this Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019 file photo, a migrant walks through a refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico Migrant families will be held at hotels in the Phoenix &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312300,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"Speaker Pelosi presses Biden to accept more refugees into U.S.","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_video_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XMjU4CA70tw","fifu_image_alt":"Speaker Pelosi presses Biden to accept more refugees into U.S.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429951","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}