WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says the U.S. refugee admissions program won’t be suspended until next week and has told resettlement agencies to continue scheduling arrivals through then.
The department said Thursday that arrivals can continue until July 12, when a cap of 50,000 refugee admissions for the current fiscal is expected to be reached. Once the cap is hit, only refugees with a close relationship with a person or business in the United States will be eligible for admission. As of Thursday morning, admissions for fiscal 2017 stood at 49,501.
After the Supreme Court last month partially upheld the Trump administration’s travel ban for citizens of six mainly Muslim countries and portions of a suspension in refugee admissions, resettlement agencies were initially told to schedule arrivals only through July 6.
Clunkiest headline in the history of headlines. Shoulda gone with the first line in story says it better. But it’s still terrible news no matter how it’s written.
The insanity continues. SCOTUS allows for a 90 day ban on muslims from 7, now 6 arbitrary states (the grandmothers from Iraq suddenly saw a Christian God?) so Trump can protect the country from terrorists, grandmothers who haven’t attacked the USA since Jan 20. When Trump had 150+ days to figure out his “extreme vetting”. Now he needs 90 more days what do what he didn’t do in 150 days… to protect the country from grandmothers.
SCOTUS is a joke.
And will get worse when Kennedy retires.
The refugee cap/ban was always the worst part of this. Preventing travel is one thing, but preventing refugees from entering who face incredible hardship, have no track record of terrorist attacks and are already extremely well vetted is just plain stupid, cruel and frankly un-American. And now it is clear that up to 50,000 is ok for the year, but somehow number 50,001 is some kind of threat.