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A 2017 paper by Evans and Fitzgerald found that refugees to the United States pay "$21,000 more in taxes than they receive in benefits over their first 20 years in the U.S." [48] An internal study by the Department of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration, which was suppressed and not shown to the public, found that refugees ...
Each year, the President of the United States sends a proposal to the Congress for the maximum number of refugees to be admitted for the upcoming fiscal year, as specified under INA section 207(e). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This number, known as the "refugee ceiling", is the target of annual lobbying by both refugee advocates seeking to raise it and anti ...
Since 1975, the United States has assisted in the resettlement of more than 3 million refugees. [2] Annual admissions of refugees to the United States since the 1980 Refugee Act was enacted have ranged from 27,100 to as many as 207,116. [1] In Fiscal Year 2019, Refugee and Resettlement Assistance comprised a discretionary budget of $1.905 billion.
The Biden administration plans to maintain refugee admissions to the United States at 125,000, according to a draft report obtained by CNN, and admit a larger share of refugees from the Western ...
So far, the U.S. has admitted fewer than 8,000 refugees in the 2021 fiscal year.
The United States was originally set to take in 110,000 refugees, as directed by then-President Barack Obama in 2016. US refugee admissions surpass Trump's 50,000-person cap Skip to main content
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) is a bureau within the United States Department of State. It has primary responsibility for formulating policies on population, refugees, and migration, and for administering U.S. refugee assistance and admissions programs.
The Biden administration is considering raising the number of refugees who could be admitted to the United States next year, according to a source familiar with the discussions, as the program ...