In an announcement for the 40th anniversary celebration of Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), President-Elect Joe Biden “stated his intent to multiply the number of refugees accepted by the U.S. in 2021” (National Catholic Register, Nov. 13).
“The Biden-Harris administration will restore America’s historic role in protecting the vulnerable and defending the rights of refugees everywhere, in raising our annual refugee admission target to 125,000,” Biden said last week, the National Catholic Register reported.
Biden “chose the setting of one of the Catholic Church’s leading refugee support organizations’ events to state for the first time as president-elect that he will dramatically increase the target for refugee admissions to the United States, offering a stark contrast to the historic lows under President Donald Trump that were long protested by Catholic leaders,” reported the National Catholic Reporter.
“The United States has long stood as a beacon of hope for the downtrodden and the oppressed, a leader of resettling refugees in our humanitarian response,” Biden said in a prerecorded video that aired during the virtual event celebrating the 40th anniversary of JRS, Religion News Service reported.
The video is available here.
The Immigration and Refugee News Digest 