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For Immediate Release         
Contact: Dan Gordon ,
617-651-0841 
April 15, 2021 

**Evangelical Christians to Biden: Welcome Refugees Now**

**Washington, D.C.**- Pressure on President Biden to follow through
and raise the refugee resettlement ceiling is increasing - including
from evangelical Christian women.

In a new op-ed in The Wall Street Journal
,
Sheila Joiner, a conservative Christian in Fort Worth, Texas, urges
Biden to keep his campaign promise and raise the refugee admissions
ceiling, joining thousands of other Christians who are urging Biden to
act immediately.

Joiner writes that she cast her ballot for Biden in 2020 based on his
commitment to restoring the refugee resettlement program after
admissions reached historic lows under President Trump. But with the
administration yet to make good on its promise
,
Joiner is questioning her choice.

"The refugee resettlement program remains in tatters," she writes.
"Under the historically low refugee admissions ceiling set by President
Trump last fall, the country is on track to admit fewer refugees than
ever. I'm beginning to feel I was duped.

" ... Some speculate that the humanitarian crisis along the U.S.-Mexico
border has made Mr. Biden hesitate. But he knows that refugee
resettlement - which brings people identified and vetted abroad to
America on airplanes - is separate from the process for asylum seekers
who make their own way to the U.S. border to request protection."

Joiner also points to a petition
now signed by
about 3,800 evangelical Christian women urging Biden to honor his
commitment and raise the refugee admissions ceiling, calling for the
president "to restore dignity and humanity and make the United States a
welcoming country once again."

"There is no reasonable explanation why the president has not raised the
refugee ceiling," said

**Ali Noorani, President and CEO of the National Immigration Forum**.
"With one signature he can extend the welcoming hand so many are calling
for - not to mention improve our security

and begin to restore our nation's standing as a humanitarian leader."
  

Read the full text of Joiner's op-ed here
.

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