Trump administration to slash refugee cap

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico



By TED HESSON and NAHAL TOOSI 09/17/2018 05:34 PM EDT Updated 09/17/2018 06:41 PM EDT

The Trump administration will admit no more than 30,000 refugees to the U.S. in the coming year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, down from the current cap of 45,000. Pompeo announced the lowered ceiling during a press conference Monday at the State Department headquarters in Foggy Bottom.

Pompeo said the 30,000 cap "must be considered in the context of the many other forms of protection and assistance offered by the United States" and should not be "sole barometer” to measure the country’s humanitarian efforts.

The hawkish turn demonstrates President Donald Trump’s willingness to push hard-line immigration policies in the run-up to the November midterm elections — even after his controversial “zero tolerance” border enforcement policy led to thousands of family separations and a court order to reunify parents and children.

When Trump took office, the refugee cap stood at 110,000. He lowered that to 50,000 shortly after he took office, and subsequently to 45,000 this fiscal year.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/17/trump-refugees-limits-ceiling-826302

[uppityperson]

1. FDT

[Stuart G]

2. He defines "evil"

My grandpa and grandma got in to the U.S.A. in 1910..no quotas or limits then. You come in, stay a week at Ellis Island, prove you don't have tuberculosis, be able to read a language, and if you are not sick & can read..you are in.. (Grandpa and Grandma read Yiddish) ..Millions of people came into the U.S.A from 1900 to 1924..It was 1924 when quotas were instituted. Yes, millions. So now I am third generation..and guess what?..I cannot read Yiddish, but have a small ability to read Spanish which I learned in high school ...a while back...oops, a long while back

[Mr.Bill]

3. Yeah, that would help cut down on illegal immigration.