{"id":216641,"date":"2020-11-17T08:14:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T08:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=216641"},"modified":"2020-11-19T07:55:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T07:55:38","slug":"biden-pledges-to-raise-refugee-ceiling-to-125000-in-address-to-jesuit-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=216641","title":{"rendered":"Biden pledges to raise refugee ceiling to 125,000 in address to Jesuit group"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Emily McFarlan-Miller and Jack Jenkins \u2013 Religious News Service Nov 12, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_190118\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190115\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190118\" class=\"wp-image-190118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/500-african-migrants-us-border-mexico-last-week-16619.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/500-african-migrants-us-border-mexico-last-week-16619.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/500-african-migrants-us-border-mexico-last-week-16619-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-190118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of African migrants pictured at the U.S. border with Mexico in 2019. Click to see &#8220;Africans coming across southern border have \u2018rolls of $100 bills\u2019&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">President-elect Joe Biden announced he will raise the number of refugees allowed into the United States to 125,000 in his first year in office, a major reversal from President Donald Trump\u2019s steep cuts to the U.S. refugee program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It\u2019s not the first time Biden has made that pledge. He previously<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@JoeBiden\/my-statement-on-world-refugee-day-fddb4abddfd5\">floated the number<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in a statement he made during the summer on World Refugee Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But it is the first time he has confirmed that number as president-elect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And, notably, he made the announcement Thursday (Nov. 12) to a Catholic group that works with refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe 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,\u201d Biden said in a prerecorded video set to air during the virtual event celebrating the 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Jesuit Refugee Service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cI promise, as president, I will reclaim that proud legacy for our country. The Biden-Harris administration will restore America\u2019s historic role in protecting the vulnerable and defending the rights of refugees everywhere and raising our annual refugee admission target to 125,000.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the brief video, shared beforehand with Religion News Service, Biden praised Jesuit Refugee Service as a \u201cgreat organization\u201d and framed the country\u2019s historic commitment to refugee resettlement in theological terms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThis organization was founded to serve the needs of some of the most vulnerable among us: refugees and displaced people. JRS believes that, in the stranger, we actually meet our neighbor. And that every society is ultimately judged by how we treat those most in need,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2020\/11\/12\/biden-pledges-to-raise-refugee-ceiling-to-125000-in-address-to-jesuit-group\/\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is in contrast to President Trump who set the limit at 30,000 for 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216641"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216648,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216641\/revisions\/216648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}