Washington- An explosive paper caused a stir: According to internal documents available to the AP news agency, the Trump administration plans to re-examine all refugees coming to the US under President Biden’s administration. Nearly 200,000 people will be affected.
The memo, signed by US immigration chief Joseph Edlow, 44, accused the Biden administration of ignoring security checks. The report calls for “re-interviews of all refugees admitted between January 20 2021 and February 20 2025”.
Joseph Edlow (44), head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services
Green cards are also suspended
According to the AP, it is written below Joe Biden “Usefulness” and “quantity” will take precedence over overall control. During his tenure, approximately 185,640 refugees were admitted United States of America claimed – most of them came from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, Venezuela and Syria.
According to the document, a list of who will be interviewed again will be drawn up within three months. Green cards are also available to those entering the country under the Biden administration refugees temporarily suspended. US Citizenship and Immigration Services “stands ready to enforce the law and ensure that the refugee program is not abused,” Edlow wrote, according to the AP news agency.
Sharp criticism from refugee helpers
Refugee workers are now warning that the planned screening could “traumatize” many people who have waited years to be admitted.
“This plan is dead wrong,” said Naomi Steinberg, vice president of U.S. policy and advocacy at HIAS, a refugee aid group. This was a low point in the US government’s consistently cold-hearted treatment of refugees.
Edlow said the priority list should be ready within 90 days. The aim is to examine carefully why refugee status was granted in the first place. “Such statements include, but are not limited to, circumstances that give rise to past persecution or reasonable fear of the primary refugee, prohibitions against persecution, and other potential inadmissibility,” he wrote.
