POLL: Should the U.S. refugee resettlement cap be reduced?

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The recent arrest of an Afghan refugee who was plotting an Election Day terror attack in the United States has prompted fresh focus on the vetting process for the refugee resettlement program.

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, along with a teen co-conspirator, was arrested on Monday in Oklahoma, and has been charged with plotting an ISIS terror attack in the US on Election Day, targeting “large gatherings of people.” Tawhedi had arrived in the U.S. on September 9, 2021, just days after Joe Biden’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan concluded.

The co-conspirator, a juvenile, is a citizen of Afghanistan with legal permanent resident status who lives in a single-family home in Moore, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City. The unnamed teen entered the United States as a young child on March 27, 2018 on a special immigrant visa and lives with his father, mother and five siblings.

From Breitbart:

The resettlement operation has been plagued with vetting failures since Afghans started arriving at Dulles International Airport in 2021.

In April 2023, a former Department of Defense (DOD) official revealed to Congress that some Afghans were resettled in the U.S. before they were found to have been involved in placing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan to kill American troops.

In September 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General (IG) issued a bombshell report detailing how the Biden administration brought Afghans to the U.S. who were “not fully vetted” and could “pose a risk to national security.”

An interactive chart published by the Migration Policy Institute shows both the U.S. annual refugee resettlement ceilings, and the number of refugees actually admitted each year, from 1980 to the present.

For the last 20 years, the cap averaged about 70,000 to 80,000 per year. When former President Donald Trump was elected to the Oval Office, he began drastically reducing the refugee admissions cap from what former President Barack Obama had set.

Trump got the cap all the way down to 18,000 per year, and during his last two years in office, the actual number admitted were just over 11,000 per year.

After Joe Biden took office, he increased the refugee admissions cap to a whopping 125,000 for the last three fiscal years.  Below are the numbers for the U.S. Refugee Admissions & Refugee Resettlement Ceilings in recent years:

  • 2016 – 85,000 (last year of Obama administration)
  • 2017 – 50,000 (first year of Trump administration)
  • 2018 – 45,000
  • 2019 – 30,000
  • 2020 – 18,000
  • 2021 – 62,500 (first year of Biden administration)
  • 2022 – 125,000
  • 2023 – 125,000
  • 2024 – 125,000

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