Speaker Pelosi presses Biden to accept more refugees into U.S.
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 7:38 AM PT – Friday, April 16, 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took an apparent jab at Joe Biden while pushing him to accept more refugees into the U.S.
While speaking to reporters Thursday,
Pelosi dropped subtle hints for Biden to raise the current cap of
refugees allowed into the U.S. She claimed it was the White House’s
moral responsibility to take them in.
“So we have to recognize our moral responsibility as we see other
countries take in refugees,” stated the House Speaker. “I think right
now we have, well it’s a very few thousand, and we have to increase that
number.”
Under the Trump administration, the cap was cut to 15,000 from the
previous cap of 85,000. Pelosi strongly opposed this move at the time.
In February, Biden vowed to restore and increase that cap to 125,000.
However, human rights groups are hammering Biden while noting he has not
kept his word.
