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President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he was extending the cap of U.S. refugee admission to 125,000 in the fiscal year of 2021. The Trump administration had previously set the cap at 15,000 – the lowest since 1980 – after having dialed back the annual number of refugees that can be admitted to the U.S. for a couple of years in a row.
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While the Trump administration’s cap of 30,000 was filled in FY 2019, only around 3,000 people were granted asylum in the United States in FY 2020 – even fewer than the 18,000 who could have been admitted. The number marked an all-time-low in U.S. refugee admissions, according to numbers by the U.S. Department of State. Even in 2002 and 2003, shortly after the passing of the Patriot Act, the U.S. still received 27,000 and 28,000 refugees, respectively.
Refugees from Asia have historically been the largest group of people being granted asylum in the U.S. Almost 45 percent of grantees since 1975 came from that continent (excluding South Asia), with the biggest influxes from Vietnam around 1980, Hmong and Laotians up to around 1992 and from Myanmar and Bhutan around 2008.
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