What's Happening at the Center
The Trump administration announced last week a number of measures to be implemented to the refugee resettlement program in FY 2020, which starts tomorrow. These include a lower refugee ceiling of 18,000 (a drop from last year’s 30,000); an end to the random selection of refugees for resettlement, to be replaced by a new focus on categories of special humanitarian concern such as religious minorities or Iraqis; a reduced reliance on the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) for the pre-vetting and selection process of refugees; and a possibility given to state and local governments to opt out of the program altogether and refuse to welcome refugees in their localities.
CIS has provided instant analysis of the decision, as Dr. Nayla Rush details why the revisions to the refugee resettlement program are long overdue. And Mark Krikorian explains what the purpose of refugee resettlement, and refugee protection more generally, should be.
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Featured Posts
Vote Delayed: Senate Action on Big Tech Green Card Bill S.386
By Jessica M. Vaughan
This bill is anything but fair to U.S. workers, because it strengthens and perpetuates a system that is actively displacing them. It offers a major concession to employers who have bypassed U.S. workers for decades, without reforming the system to reduce guest-worker admissions or prevent employers from replacing U.S. workers.
More Evidence that Research Scholars Misuse Visas, Compromising National Security
By Dan Cadman
In my recent Backgrounder on the risks to national security inherent in the large non-immigrant student and research scholar population in the U.S. I discussed not only the risks, but also possible steps the president and Congress might take to ameliorate some of those risks. Two cases were publicized in the media that focus on one of the major risks associated with hosting students and scholars: the Chinese government, which casts a wide espionage net
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U.S. Visa Waiting Lists Lead to Another Round of Exploitation
By David North
The middlemen in the EB-5 (immigrant investor) program are actively pursuing another set of clients in a way that throws new and unattractive light on America's visa waiting lists, a major by-product of our immigration policy. No other major nation known to me sets up these lists — they either admit or deny admission and that's that.
Immigration Controversy in Germany
By Jerry Kramer
Horst Seehofer, the conservative interior minister in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government, has long criticized her willingness to open the country's borders to migrants fleeing troubled regions in the Middle East and Africa. He said that over the past 15 months, while 2,199 people have been saved on or near the Italian coast, Germany has opened asylum processes for only 565 and only 225 are now in Germany. He said those numbers are small in comparison to those taken in by Greece.
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