Trump Administration Caps Refugee Admissions at Record-Low 30,000
The Trump administration said it will admit no more than 30,000 refugees next year, the lowest cap in history, making good on a presidential promise and enraging immigrant rights activists, who said the U.S. is shirking its global duty.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cast the level — one-third lower than the 2018 ceiling — as a needed pause while the country gains a handle on security risks and deals with some 800,000 people already in the U.S. with pending asylum cases.
“The ultimate goal is the best possible care and safety of these people in need, and our approach is designed to achieve this noble objective,” Mr. Pompeo said.
The 30,000 level is only a ceiling, and the actual number could go even lower.
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Zero! That is the only acceptable number (but 30K is a start).
Non combatant refugees go to camps supervised by the UN until such time as they can be resettled whence they came, when the violence stops.
Asylum is granted to high-profile individuals who would be murdered if they remained in their country of origin. Again, until such time as they may return unmolested.
Immigrants are allowed to settle in the country, for a probationary term, in the expectation that they can contribute positively to their new nation, in accordance with that nations norms and traditions.
Those are the rules that have always governed human "migration". Those are good rules. They need to be enforced. Period.
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Note the whining on the part of Peter Wehner in this retweet:
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Daniel Darling Retweeted The New York Times
Largest displacement in world history and we are at lowest levels of refugee acceptance. I’m so saddened by this. We have a booming economy and many resources. We can’t take all the world’s vulnerable but we can take more than this.
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