It is incredible for me to see that the country has cut from the fiscal year 2016, the number of refugees that were admitted were 85,000 refugees in 2016. In 2020, we have only admitted 18,000, a 79-percent decrease and the lowest level in the history of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.
Sheila Jackson Lee highlights the drastic reduction in refugee admissions under the current administration.
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We are being told that this lifeline, these very basic protections, are on the chopping block so that billionaires can get yet another tax break.
Rather than pour billions more into the agency that murdered her, we must abolish ICE and build systems rooted in equity and basic human dignity.
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