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The announcement from the Biden White House comes after significant pushback from the faith-based groups...

Biden raises refugee ceiling, and faith-based groups brace for rebuilding work

Biden Immigration
by: Emily McFarlan Miller WASHINGTON, May 3, 2021 (RNS) — Faith-based refugee resettlement groups are celebrating President Joe Biden’s decision to raise the number of refugees allowed into the U.S.Read More

By Friday afternoon, The Associated Press and CNN reported the Biden administration has reversed course...

Biden reverses course on refugee cap after faith groups express outrage

Refugees at border
by: Jack Jenkins WASHINGTON, April 16, 2021 (RNS) — President Joe Biden’s administration has reversed a decision to keep in place a historically low cap on refugee admissions left byRead More

“We remain concerned for the persecuted religious minorities who will not be allowed into the U.S..."

President Trump Signs FY 2020 Presidential Determination, World Relief Responds

Presidential Determination for 2022
BALTIMORE, Nov. 4, 2019 – Late Friday night, the president signed the Fiscal Year 2020 Presidential Determination, setting the cap for refugee arrivals at the lowest level in U.S. history – 18,000.Read More

Leading refugee resettlement organization urges administration to resume refugee admissions as soon as possible

World Relief Laments Zero Refugee Admissions in October 2019

Presidential Determination for 2022
BALTIMORE, Nov. 1, 2019 – World Relief, a leading faith-based relief and development organization, today mourns the fact that as of yesterday. the U.S. has resettled no refugees for aRead More

Yesterday marked the end of the first full month in decades in which the U.S. resettled zero refugees.

Opinion: Trump’s refugee cap compromises the US economy and American identity

Syria refugees
by: Scott Arbeiter Nov. 1, 2019 (RNS) — Yesterday marked the end of the first full month in decades in which the U.S. resettled zero refugees. How did this happen?Read More

That’s the lowest number of admissions a president has set since the refugee resettlement program started in the 1980s.

Drop in refugee admissions met with outcry from faith-based resettlement agencies

by: Emily McFarlan Miller Sept. 27, 2019 (RNS) — The Trump administration’s announcement that it would once again slash refugee admissions to the United States to unprecedented lows was metRead More

Global Christian humanitarian organization mourns the proposed Presidential Determination and urges the White House not to abandon refugees

World Relief Denounces Proposed FY2020 Refugee Cap of 18,000 

World Relief Strongly Condemns the Trump Administration
BALTIMORE, Md. – Today, the Trump administration announced its intention to set a refugee ceiling of just 18,000 for FY 2020. World Relief strongly opposes this cut to the nation’sRead More