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April 16, 2021

AOC rips into Biden for keeping ‘racist’ Trump-era refugee cap

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, on Friday tore into President Biden for keeping refugee admissions at 15,000 for this fiscal year, the same levels set by the Trump administration -- with the Democratic congressman calling the levels "xenophobic and racist."

April 16, 2021

Biden to keep refugee admissions at Trump-era levels, despite earlier moves to increase it

President Biden is keeping refugee admissions at 15,000 this fiscal year -- the level set at the end of the Trump administration -- despite earlier proposals to dramatically increase it to over 60,000.

February 11, 2021

Climate refugees? Biden executive order wants study on resettling those 'displaced' by climate change

President Biden’s recent executive order on refugees includes a direction for a study on the impacts of climate change on migration, as well as options for the "protection and resettlement of individuals" displaced by environmental change.

February 10, 2021

House Republicans caution Biden administration against weakening vetting of refugees

EXCLUSIVE: More than two dozen House Republicans on Wednesday urged the Biden administration to oppose efforts to weaken screening for immigrants and refugees coming to the U.S. over national security concerns.

February 4, 2021

Biden moves to dramatically increase refugee admissions

President Biden on Thursday announced that his administration will move to dramatically increase the number of admissions of refugees into the U.S. -- the latest significant shift in immigration policy in his administration.

December 24, 2020

Elizabeth Neumann: Trump harmed national security by cutting refugee admissions to US — Biden will admit more

The United States has all but vacated its status as a beacon for refugees under the failed leadership of the Trump administration.

December 24, 2020

'Lost Girl' brought to the US amid Sudan war connects with surviving family member after 30 years

In a year pockmarked by an ongoing pandemic, the type of tragedy that brings faded war memories back to life, Rebecca Deng has a reason to truly celebrate Christmas in her snow-dusted home of Holland, Mich., this year.

September 14, 2020

Anthony Weiner piecing together shattered life as CEO of broken glass factory

The former Democratic congressman — whose serial sexting cost him his political career and later sent him to prison — was recently named the CEO of IceStone, which has a factory in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, The Post has learned.

September 8, 2020

37 million people displaced by global war on terror: report

Brown University's Costs of War project estimated in a new report Tuesday that 37 million people have been displaced in the nearly 20 years since former President George W. Bush declared a "global war on terror."

January 15, 2020

Federal judge blocks Trump order allowing states, local officials to refuse refugees

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the enforcement of President Trump’s executive order that would allow state and local officials to opt out of accepting refugees -- the latest judicial hurdle for the administration’s immigration policies.