US President Joe Biden speaks alongside Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga as they hold a joint news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, US, April 16, 2021. — Reuters picWASHINGTON, Apr 17 — President Joe Biden’s administration announced today he was scrapping his pledge for a rapid expansion in the number of refugees allowed into the United States, but seemed to backtrack later in the day after fierce blowback from within his Democratic Party.
Instead, the White House will keep the strict 15,000 limit so that it can “rebuild” a broken program and deal with pandemic-related complications, said the official, who asked not to be identified. The admissions system left by the Trump administration was “even more decimated than we’d thought, requiring a major overhaul in order to build back toward the numbers to which we’ve committed,” the senior official said.“We will use all 15,000 slots... and work with Congress on increasing admissions and building back to the numbers to which we’ve committed,” he tweeted.
Senate Foreign Relations Chair Bob Menendez had sharply criticised the White House, saying it “has not only stymied the number of refugees permitted entrance, it has prevented the State Dept from admitting vetted refugees currently waiting in the system.”“As we face the largest global refugee crisis in history, with 29.6 million refugees worldwide, resettlement serves as a critical tool in providing protection to those fleeing persecution,” he wrote.
“There is far more work ahead to reclaim global leadership. The challenge of ramping up admissions to President Biden’s pledge of 125,000 is daunting, but it is an occasion we can rise to.”
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