The Biden administration is on track to admit fewer refugees this year than the Trump administration did in 2019, prompting complaints from Democratic politicians and immigrant advocacy groups ahead of the midterm elections.
Last October, President Joe Biden announced that the annual refugee cap would rise to 125,000. With just four weeks until the end of the 2022 fiscal year, the resettlement support centers project that a grand total of 25,000 refugees will arrive in the United States this year, putting the president 100,000 short.
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