Biden says administration will raise refugee cap in first comments after Friday's back and forth
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President Joe Biden said Saturday his administration will increase the refugee cap after a back and forth on Friday where the administration first announced it would keep the cap at the historically low level set by former President Donald Trump, before reversing course after facing blowback from refugee advocacy groups and Democrats in Congress.
"We're gonna increase the numbers," Biden told reporters at the Wilmington Country Club after a round of golf, noting that the situation on the southern border had complicated things. "We couldn't do two things at once. And now we're going to increase the numbers," he said. Notably, the President called the situation on the southern border a crisis, a word administration officials have avoided using. White House officials signaled in a conference call with refugee resettlement advocates late Friday that Biden is likely to raise the current refugee cap of 15,000 quickly, well ahead of the May 15 deadline set Friday, according to a person familiar with the matter.More Related News