This is the lowest number allowed since 1980, when the program was created….
There is no reason to think that Trump and Miller won’t cut the number significantly again next year if they can on the way to ZERO….
The cuts are below what previous administrations had agreed to internationally…
The Trump administration will cut the number of refugees allowed into America to 30,000 next year — marking the lowest mark in nearly four decades, officials said Monday.
Humanitarian groups had already been livid with the Trump White House for limiting this fiscal year to just 45,000 refugees.
This new number of 30,000 – which starts with the fiscal year of Oct. 1 – is the lowest since 1980, when the modern refugee program was first established.
As a comparison, in President Obama’s final year, America welcomed nearly 85,000 refugees.
“The improved refugee policy of this administration serves the national interest of the United States, and expands our ability to help those in need all around the world,” according to a statement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “We are and continue to be the most generous nation in the world.”
Former British lawmaker David Miliband, now president of the International Rescue Committee, decried the US cutback.
“The US is not only abdicating humanitarian leadership and responsibility-sharing in response to the worst global displacement and refugee crisis since the Second World War, but compromising critical strategic interests and reneging on commitments to allies and vulnerable populations,” Miliband said….
image….Refugee Resettlement Watch
…Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
MOTHER OF EXILES. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus” (1883)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus
Is there something similar on the Statue of Liberty, eh?
I guess Stephen Miller never got THAT part when he was in school?…..
That’s exactly what’s on the Statue of Liberty (as you can see from the Wikipedia article), because Emma Lazarus wrote it for that purpose.
Stephen Miller does have some hard-to-follow rationale about how the Statue was created before the poem, and that the poem is somehow not related.
Screw’m….
I’ll be happy when the guy loses his job……
And American goes back to embracing those who seek to come here and contribute to this Great Country….