On Tuesday, September 27, the White House issued a memorandum declaring that in the upcoming 2023 fiscal year, which begins tomorrow, the Biden government intends to admit 125,000 refugees. A cap has been allocated to each region of the world supplying the refugees:
Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,000
East Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000
Europe and Central Asia . . . . . . .15,000
Latin America/Caribbean . . . . . . 15,000
Near East/South Asia . . . . . . . . .35,000
Unallocated Reserve . . . . . . . . . . 5,000
The 5,000 in the “Unallocated Reserve” category can be added to any of the regions as the need arises.
The fiscal year ending today also had the same 125K target, but as of April 30–seven months into FY 2022–CIS.org estimates the actual number of legally defined refugees was only 10,742. As CIS explained in May, the administration is “privileging people fleeing poverty (migrants), not those fleeing danger (refugees). The border crisis and its illegal crossings (along with other new entrants in need of processing, such as Afghan parolees) are overwhelming the system and diverting federal resources away from refugees in need of resettlement.”
This week’s memo claims that the admittances are “justified by humanitarian concerns or [are] otherwise in the national interest.” In a Fox News piece, the network’s Spencer Lindquist says the announcement “does not . . . explain how accepting 125,000 refugees is in the national interest of everyday Americans.”
The large number would, however, be very much in the interests of the nine different refugee resettlement contractors that are paid to assist in resettlements. Those NGOs receive $133,000 for each refugee they resettle. Nice work if you can get it.
For more, see Breitbart News.