Biden Admin Faces Scrutiny Over Refugee Quotas Amid Border Crisis

Published on May 2, 2024

A little-known Biden policy of holding the number of refugees seeking asylum in the U.S. to 125,000 per year has been completely discredited by the facts on the ground at the southern border with Mexico. In plain view of the nation, thousands of illegal alien migrants cross the southern border and ask for asylum every day. President Joe Biden’s target quota appears minuscule when compared to the estimated seven to eight million illegal aliens that his administration acknowledged have entered the country during his term as president. “This administration has done everything to open our border and get people into the U.S. under any pretense. They have taken all guardrails off the system. Having the misfortune of living in a warzone or under the deficiencies of a failed government are not criteria for admission into the United States,” said Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), in an interview with The Epoch Times....