government granted temporary protected status (TPS) to Venezuelans who were physically present in the United States as of Maexcluding those who have arrived after or were expelled to Mexico under the Trump-era Remain in Mexico plan (whereby asylum-seekers had to wait in Mexico for hearings in a U.S.
borders along with Cubans and Nicaraguans - all countries with authoritarian governments with whom the United States does not have diplomatic relations. Venezuelans represent the fastest-growing population arriving at U.S. government is committed to sharing the responsibility of hosting, especially in conjunction with foreign aid.įirst, increasing resettlement is necessary to provide safe and orderly pathways to individuals fleeing violence and persecution who qualify for asylum and refugee status. Finally, resettlement is an important part of signaling credibility to refugee and migrant-hosting allies that the U.S. The experience of the EU following the 2015 “ migration crisis” offers a cautionary tale for the United States. Second, increasing refugee resettlement is a necessary part of preventing anti-democratic regimes from using migrants and refugees as blackmail to extract policy and economic concessions. Instead, refugee resettlement should also be considered a crucial component of the administration’s broader migration management approach.Įdited by Stephen John Stedman and Fred Tanner 2003Įxpanding refugee resettlement would first acknowledge the very real increase in individuals arriving at the southern border for whom violence and political persecution have caused them to leave their homes and who have limited safe pathways without resettlement. But prioritizing refugee resettlement is important not only on humanitarian grounds. The government has acknowledged that reaching its goal of 125,000 refugees resettled this year will be once again an uphill battle.Īs I and others have written elsewhere, the price of declining resettlement has been the rights of refugees and asylum-seekers and the crumbling of a global system of refugee protection established following World War II. While the administration has made some important progress in rebuilding resettlement, advocates, and elected officials from across the political spectrum have argued that the resettlement system remains critically underfunded. President Donald Trump’s administration, including through drastic funding cuts and staff reductions. The Biden administration has explained this shortfall by pointing to the damage done to the resettlement system by former U.S. On October 3, the government announced that only 25,465 refugees had been resettled during fiscal year 2022, far below the cap of 125,000 set by the administration last May. Yet in fiscal year 2021, the United States resettled only 11,411 refugees - the lowest number since the program began in 1980. It is one part of a multi-pillar global approach to protecting the over 100 million displaced both inside their countries and externally. Refugee resettlement involves transferring refugees from countries where they have already sought asylum to a third country, usually from a developing country to a more developed state with higher economic capacity. However, the government has allocated just 15,000 spots for the upcoming fiscal year to refugee resettlement from all of Latin America and the Caribbean. Years of political repression, violence, and economic insecurity in Venezuela have come to head to create the second largest external displacement crisis in the world with 6.8 million displaced - just behind Ukraine. Yet the needs of Venezuelans arriving at the southern border are also not being met by U.S. Much furor has focused on the cravenness of politicians using human beings as part of political stunts.
0 kommentar(er)
