The United States has accepted 6,200 refugees since last September, and is on pace to set a record low. That's not the total from Afghanistan, but from all countries combined. Instead of reversing Trump's nativist immigration policies, Biden has chosen to double down on them.https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1426281414186741760 …
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Refugees who settle in the US aren't random people who show up at the border; they go through a highly bureaucratized vetting process that now takes years. Biden's decision to keep this backlog of future Americans in limbo is both a cynical political ploy and a broken promise.
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A few years ago, even American right-wingers used to brag about immigration. They offered the fact that people from all over the world wanted to become Americas as proof that our country was awesome. Now both parties pander to a nativism that represents the worst in this country.
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