History of us refugee resettlement program

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With the fall of Vietnam in April of , the U. As a result, Congress realized the need for refugee resettlement services and passed The Refugee Act of , standardizing resettlement services for all refugees admitted to the United States.

This Act incorporates the definition of "refugee" used in the U. Protocol, providing for regular and emergency admission of refugees and authorizing federal assistance for the resettlement of refugees. Since , the U. Since the enactment of the Refugee Act of , annual admissions figures have ranged from a high of , in , to a low of 27, in Branding Bar Menu U. Office of Refugee Resettlement. Click to expand menu. Click to expand search.

Having a firm policy helped the system become a lot more organized. Now there was federal funding, and agencies -- some of them faith-based -- were designated to coordinate local reception and resettling. Things settled down. Refugee numbers from to were about , a year. Then after , there were the Balkan wars, and other regional conflicts that bumped the numbers up over , annually.

In , it reached ,, then drifted down again. The Bush administration suspended the whole refugee program for two months, but there was little public controversy. That's because a lot of refugees were coming from Somalia, Afghanistan and other countries with an al-Qaeda presence. Fourteen were on six-month tourist visas, four had a business visa and one had a student visa. And it was hard to get in for a while.

But then it recovered, admissions got back up to about 40, to 50, President Obama started raising the cap, first to 70, and then to 85, By the time he left office, he had set it at , The difference is that Trump lowered the cap. Trump lowered it from , to 50, for this fiscal year. And as of Jan. And right now there are close to 70, in the pipeline for U. So about 50, refugees who thought they were going to be moving to U.

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