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After cutting refugee admissions and local arbitrage Thousands of people who were approved to enter the United States, Donald Trump’s administration is now reportedly discussing major changes in refugee system This will give huge support to white people.
A plan reportedly introduced at the White House by State Department and Homeland Security officials would give priority to English speakers and Europeans, with refugee groups and advocates saying the proposals undermine the country’s moral and legal fabric.
Officials have suggested that the United States should prioritize entry for Europeans who have been “targeted for peaceful expression of ideas online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties”.the new York Times.
Those views appear to align with far-right platforms across Europe, including Alternative to Germany, An anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant party whose leaders traffic in anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.
some of these tricks It appears that it is already underway: In May, a group of 59 white South Africans were admitted to the United States as “refugees” and the United States “essentially granted them citizenship”, Trump said at the time.
Since Trump returned to the White House, his administration has virtually shut down refugee admissions and blocked funding for resettlement groups, leaving thousands of people stranded who were offered entry to the United States for humanitarian protection but instead turned down those offers. Canceled moments after Trump entered office.
This included Afghans who completed an extensive admissions process, as well as thousands of others whose applications are now in limbo.
“When the United States signals that some identities are more worthy of protection than others, it undermines our reputation, emboldens authoritarian critics, and destabilizes international burden-sharing,” said Shawn VanDiver, director of AfghanistanEvac. Independent.
“It tells Afghan allies, persecuted minorities and families still waiting in danger that their sacrifices and their lives matter less,” he said. “We see it firsthand: Thousands of Afghans trusted America when we said, ‘Stand with us and we will stand with you.’ Now giving preference to Europeans over them is not only inequitable – it is an unconscionable betrayal.
A spokesperson for the State Department said Independent That “any discussion of details regarding that decision at this point is mere speculation.”
“This administration unapologetically puts the interests of the American people first,” the spokesperson said.
Trump earlier this year ordered sweeping changes to the country’s refugee admissions program to study whether it is in the best interest of the United States to allow refugees into the country.
The administration plans to dramatically cut the number of refugees coming into the country next year, from 125,000 under Joe Biden’s administration last year to just 7,500.
The President is required to notify Congress of the extent of the refugee limit, which he has not yet done.
According to Kris O’Mara Vignarajah, president of Global Refuge, “The U.S. refugee admissions program is one of the few remaining expressions of America’s humanitarian leadership on the world stage.” “To drastically lower the entry threshold and concentrate the majority of available slots on one group would be a deep departure from decades of bipartisan refugee policy rooted in law, fairness, and global responsibility.”
For the last several months the administration cut financial aid and health care coverage for refugees, and the President’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act restricts refugees from eligibility for Medicaid, Medicare, children’s health insurance, and emergency food assistance.
Potential changes to the refugee application process focus primarily on assimilation, instructing refugee applicants to take classes on “American history and values” and “respect for cultural norms.” the new York Times.
According to documents reviewed by the newspaper, the administration should only allow entry to refugees who have been “fully and appropriately assimilated, and are aligned with the President’s objectives”.
The sharp drop in admissions would mean the applications of hundreds of thousands of people who are already in the refugee admissions pipeline would be rejected – including those who have undergone extensive background checks.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has overseen an overhaul of the agency, moving more than $250 million from refugee services to refugee services. Pay immigrants to leave the country.
That money was moved from the State Department’s Migration and Refugee Assistance, which is overseen by the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. The bureau’s former mission, according to its website, was to “assist refugees fleeing persecution, crisis or violence, and to seek durable solutions for forcibly displaced people.”
But under Rubio’s reorganization, the mission of the Refugee Bureau is now explicitly focused on efforts to “return illegal aliens to their country of origin or legal status.”
According to Naomi Steinberg, vice president of U.S. policy and advocacy for HIAS, a dramatic overhaul of the country’s refugee system would “deliberately leave vulnerable people around the world at risk, rendering it unrecognizable.”
“We are hearing from Afghan women’s rights activists, Venezuelan political dissidents, Congolese families, persecuted Christians and other religious minorities, all of whom now fear that the system they trusted has no place left for them,” Vignarajah said. “Refugee families most need a path to protection that is consistent, principled and based on the promise that every life matters equally, not just those few who fit a preferred profile.”