‘It’s one signature’: Biden urged to raise refugee admissions now

Advocates say refugees are in limbo as US president has not signed order to increase refugee resettlement cap.

Pressure is growing on Joe Biden to take immediate action to restore the United States refugee resettlement programme, after a leading rights group said Biden is on pace to bring in the fewest refugees this year of any US president in history. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) said in a recent report that only 2,050 refugees have been resettled in the US midway through the 2021 fiscal year, despite Biden’s stated goal of bringing in 62,500 refugees by the end of September and as many as 125,000 refugees in 2022. “If the President does not take immediate action to implement his revised refugee policy, an estimated 5,000 refugees will be admitted this fiscal year… this would be the lowest number of any US president in history,” the group said.