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A 2012 USRAP report to Congress states that United States involvement in discussions and actions concerning refugee resettlement have given the United States the opportunity to advance human-rights as well as influence other countries to be more open to accepting refugees. [71] The example given in the report is that of Bhutanese refugees ...
The Bureau is headed by the Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration and the official currently acting in this capacity is PRM Acting Assistant Secretary Marta C. Youth. Youth has headed PRM since former Assistant Secretary Julieta Valls Noyes retired from the Foreign Service on October 4, 2024 [2].
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 ...
More than three million refugees from various countries around the world have been admitted to the United States since 1980. [12] [2] In recent years, the number of refugees admitted by the U.S. has fluctuated due to changes in government policies. For example, the U.S. resettled 84,995 refugees in the fiscal year 2016. [13]
President Joe Biden receives an operational briefing from U.S. Border Patrol, USCIS and ICE at the Brownsville Border Patrol Station on February 29, 2024.. The immigration policy Joe Biden initially focused on reversing many of the immigration policies of the previous Trump administration, before implementing stricter enforcement mechanisms later in his term.
So far, the proposal hasn’t yielded public support from Republicans, who have tried to frame Biden’s immigration policies as a wedge issue ahead of the upcoming 2024 elections.
VOLAG, sometimes spelled Volag or VolAg, is an abbreviation for "Voluntary Agency".This term refers to any of the nine U.S. private agencies and one state agency that have cooperative agreements with the State Department to provide reception and placement services for refugees arriving in the United States.
The refugee resettlement gap refers to the number of refugees judged eligible for third country resettlement compared to the number of refugees who have been resettled in that year. The difference between these two figures occurs due to fluctuations in refugee needs and due to UN member state policies towards resettlement within their borders. [60]