This is, once again, a historic low.

It has been every year Trump has set that number.

2021: 15,000
2020: 18,000
2019: 30,000
2018: 45,000

By comparison, former President Obama set the refugee ceiling at 110,000 his last year in office.
Interfaith @bridges_fl calls the move "shameful" and "un-American."

"The U.S. should lead by example and set a number that is worthy of the United States’ values of welcome,” said Ronnate Asirwatham, its director of policy and advocacy. https://twitter.com/bridges_fi/status/1311566075939745792">https://twitter.com/bridges_f...
Here& #39;s the response from @LIRSorg, one of the six faith-based organizations authorized to resettle refugees in the U.S. https://twitter.com/LIRSorg/status/1311533757367824384">https://twitter.com/LIRSorg/s...
And from the head of @LIRSorg. https://twitter.com/KrishVignarajah/status/1311520819139489802">https://twitter.com/KrishVign...
Related: It& #39;s not unusual for Christians to connect the Christmas story (or, rather, the Flight to Egypt that follows in the biblical account) to the refugee crisis.

I wrote about it at Christmas 2016: https://religionnews.com/2016/12/22/jesus-was-a-refugee-churches-connect-christmas-story-to-refugee-crisis/">https://religionnews.com/2016/12/2... https://twitter.com/RevJacquiLewis/status/1311663234462765057">https://twitter.com/RevJacqui...
Also, Trump says Biden wants to increase refugee resettlement by 700%.

Biden has indeed said he would raise that number to 125,000. For perspective: It was 110,000 in Obama& #39;s last year in office.

That& #39;s how far that number has dropped in the last four years.
Again, for perspective, It doesn& #39;t seem like that big of a drop in the maximum number of refugee admissions to go from 18,000 to 15,000.

Until you realize it went from 110,000

To 45,000

To 30,000

To 18,000

To 15,000.
Here& #39;s the response from @CWS_global, one of the six faith-based organizations authorized to resettle refugees in the U.S. https://twitter.com/CWS_global/status/1311672484048121856">https://twitter.com/CWS_globa...
Here& #39;s the response from @HIASrefugees, one of the six faith-based organizations authorized to resettle refugees in the U.S. https://twitter.com/MarkJHetfield/status/1311652779958530048?s=20">https://twitter.com/MarkJHetf...
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