125,000 Refugees, Biden Executive Order Explores Taking In ‘Displaced’ Climate Change Migrants
Joe Biden’s recent flurry of executive orders includes organizing a study on how climate change will affect migration patterns. It promises options for the “protection and resettlement of individuals” ‘displaced’ by environmental change.
The study will be a cooperation between the departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security, and USAID, and the director of national intelligence. The study will hone in on “climate change and its impact on migration, including forced migration, internal displacement, and planned relocation.”
The Biden Administration’s order will include a “discussion of the international security implications of climate-related migration” as well as “options for protection and resettlement of individuals displaced directly or indirectly from climate change.”
Former President Donald Trump previously restricted the number of allowed refugees to 15,000 people. However, the Biden Administration plans to balloon that number to 125,000. It also axed the Trump Administration’s order that required “Immediate Heightened Screening and Vetting of Applications for Visas and Other Immigration Benefits, Ensuring Enforcement of All Laws for Entry Into the United States.”
It is unclear what benefit to the United States this study might produce. However, it does appease members of the Democrat Party who are urging the U.S. to funnel more taxpayer funds to helping “climate migrants.” The order will funnel money into “permitting the use of video and audio teleconferencing to conduct refugee interviews and establishing the necessary infrastructure to do so.”
A letter signed by 26 Republican lawmakers reads, “We are extremely concerned with the Biden Administration’s plans to weaken screening and vetting for foreign nationals coming to the United States, including refugee applicants in the [U.S. Refugee Admissions Program] and other humanitarian-based U.S. immigration programs.”
