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The United States Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212) is an amendment to the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, and was created to provide a permanent and systematic procedure for the admission to the United States of refugees of special humanitarian concern to the U.S., and to provide comprehensive and uniform provisions ...
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Refugee Act: Created a policy for admitting refugees with the United Nations’ definition of refugees [6] Set an annual cap of 50,000 refugees. Pub. L. 96–212: 1980 (No short title) Pub. L. 96–422: 1981 Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1981 Pub. L. 97–116: 1982 Virgin Islands Nonimmigrant Alien Adjustment Act of 1981
The Sanctuary movement was a religious and political campaign in the United States that began in the early 1980s to provide safe haven for Central American refugees fleeing civil conflict. The movement was a response to federal immigration policies that made obtaining asylum difficult for Central Americans.
Next, the 1980 Refugee Act pushed the goal of conforming US law with the UN Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. Indeed, the Refugee Act's definition of a "refugee" was virtually identical to the protocol's, which required contracting nations to establish a category of immigrants for whom discretionary grants of asylum were available ...
The law officially defined a refugee as someone with a “well-founded fear of persecution,” nearly tripled the number refugees the United States would accept and created a process for adjusting ...
The Des Moines Register reports on Oct. 30, 1979, that Iowa Gov. Robert Ray has returned from a trip to southeast Asia, where he visited refugee camps. The Des Moines Register is celebrating 175 ...
France saw the ODP as primarily a refugee program, i.e., to resettle political refugees; Canada, Australia, and New Zealand saw it as a family reunification program; and the U.S. wished to secure departure from Vietnam for former U.S. employees and relatives of Vietnamese in the U.S. [4]