Saturday, April 17, 2021

I think President Biden needs to assess the number of refugee children at the southern border.

Republicans are carrying on about the southern border. Those migrants at our border are climate refugees. I am sure the Biden Administration is taking a pause to return higher numbers of refugees accepted because of the climate refugees out of the Northern Triad.

President Biden is correct to pause a return to higher levels of admissions into the country of refugees from other countries. The southern border is becoming a place where climate refugees have congregated. It is a concern and continuing to open up other the admission of other countries refugees is simply ignoring what is occurring at the southern border of the country.

The growing number of unaccompanied minors coming to the southern border may take up the total number of refugees the USA normally takes every year.

April 16, 2021
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Miriam Jordan

Washington - The White House announced (click here) on Friday that President Biden would limit the number of refugees allowed into the United States this year to the historically low level set by the Trump administration, reversing an earlier promise to welcome more than 60,000 people fleeing war and persecution.

But the move to cap the number at 15,000 prompted such an immediate backlash from Democrats and human rights activists that the White House later retreated and promised to announce a final, increased number by May 15.

The White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, did not specify how many refugees would be allowed into the country, but she did say that Mr. Biden’s initial goal of welcoming 62,500 seemed “unlikely.”...