The Biden administration plans to maintain refugee admissions to the United States at 125,000, according to a draft report obtained by CNN, and admit a larger share of refugees from the Western Hemisphere amid unprecedented movement in the region.
The upcoming year’s proposed refugee ceiling underscores the unique challenges the administration faces in Latin America, where people – fleeing deteriorating conditions exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic – have migrated in record numbers to the US-Mexico border.
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