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Last week, @JoeBiden re-affirmed his commitment to setting a resettlement ceiling of 125,000 refugees
That's not historically high: Presidents Carter, Reagan & G.H.W. Bush all set higher ceilings
But it would be a 956% increase over last year's arrivals https://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2020/november/us-will-re-open-to-refugees-is-us-church-ready.html
That's not historically high: Presidents Carter, Reagan & G.H.W. Bush all set higher ceilings
But it would be a 956% increase over last year's arrivals https://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2020/november/us-will-re-open-to-refugees-is-us-church-ready.html
125,000 is an ambitious goal, to be sure, & will be hard to meet in this already-begun fiscal year, because overseas refugee processing has been dramatically slowed & because the infrastructure for resettlement has declined dramatically
But we certainly will see numbers increase
But we certainly will see numbers increase
And long-term, 125K is not at all a crazy goal: In 1975, when @cmalliance missionaries Grady & Evelyn Mangham began what would eventually become @WorldRelief's refugee resettlement program, 135K were resettled from Asia alone
I wrote about their story https://www.christianitytoday.com/pastors/2016/october-web-exclusives/church-and-refugees.html
I wrote about their story https://www.christianitytoday.com/pastors/2016/october-web-exclusives/church-and-refugees.html
With overall refugee resettlement at a historic low this past year, @WorldRelief was allowed to resettle only 1,217 refugees nationally. By comparison in FY 2016, we resettled 8,352 refugees. But could we do even more in FY 2021 or FY 2022 with an increased refugee ceiling?
Well, when Grady Mangham was hired to start @WorldRelief's refugee program in January 1979, he was expected to find sponsors for 50,000 refugees—within four months! (per the @CTmagazine archives) https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1979/february-16/refugees-making-room-for-fleet-of-boat-people.html
