Humanitarian watchdogs say that they have received almost no word of how the Biden administration plans to actually admit 100,000 Ukrainians into the country—much less how it plans to fix a refugee resettlement system that is already in crisis
To the millions of refugees forced from their homes by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden’s announcement last week that the United States is preparing to “welcome 100,000 Ukrainians to the United States, with a focus on reuniting families,” came as a welcome surprise.
“Key concerns of the resettlement agencies are how not just Ukrainians but all the others from elsewhere—like Afghanistan or Burma or Syria or Ethiopia—waiting for refugee or humanitarian parole or family unification processing will be facilitated,” said Dr. Yael Schacher, deputy director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International, who said that this was particularly true in Afghanistan, where the American withdrawal last AugustSen.
“I think that this group of people wants to go back home, their husbands, their dads, their brothers are fighting,” Marshall told The Daily Beast. “I don’t think 100,000 will come here… almost every person that we talked to, they want to go home.” Refugee advocates are concerned the administration might be firing off talking points without much heft behind them once again.
“That number seems kind of low,” said Melanie Nezer, the senior vice president for global public affairs at HIAS, one of the country’s oldest nonprofits that provides relocation assistance to refugees. With the ongoing refugee crises in Syria, Myanmar, Cameroon and now the displacement of millions of refugees across Central Europe, Nezer said, “the needs of refugees from other parts of the world have not decreased.”Biden’s new budget proposal calls for $6.
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