The annual cap on refugee admissions is also set to skyrocket from 15,000 - the fiscal 2021 limit imposed last fall by the Trump administration - to 125,000, the goal set by President Biden for the current fiscal year that started in October.
President Biden has spoken eloquently of America's "Commitment to protect the most vulnerable." But it's tough to see how importing a surge of refugees helps down-on-their-luck Americans.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for these programs, had a budget of $760 million in 2012.
The refugee program is only one of many special humanitarian categories and it's worth remembering that the president campaigned on making the refugee quota a minimum that legally must be filled instead of what it is now - a ceiling that may or may not be met.
The push for a massive expansion of refugee resettlement is particularly galling, because America's leaders could help tens of millions of vulnerable people abroad - without disadvantaging their own citizens.
At the time, it cost barely over $1,000 annually to support a Syrian refugee who had sought shelter in neighboring countries.
The Biden administration has cast its eight-fold increase of the refugee resettlement cap as a compassionate move.
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