The Biden administration plans to maintain refugee admissions to the United States at 125,000, according to a draft report obtained by CNN, “and admit a larger share of refugees from the Western Hemisphere amid unprecedented movement in the region,” reports CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez.
Alvarez reported that the State Department has proposed admitting between 35,000 to 50,000 refugees from Latin America/the Caribbean in fiscal year 2024, according to the draft report. “That’s up from 15,000 in fiscal year 2023, though only around 5,500 refugees from that region have been resettled in the US as of August 31, according to federal data,” writes Alvarez in her story, which was posted on CNN’s website.
The Immigration and Refugee News Digest 