Bishop Vásquez, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration releases statement on the setting of the U.S. refugee limit for the year 2019

WASHINGTON - The United States Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo, announced yesterday that the Administration will set the Presidential Determination, the level of refugees allowed into the United States, at 30,000 refugees for 2019. This is the lowest number set in the history of the U.S. refugee admissions program which was formally created in 1980.

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