{"id":21395,"date":"2019-04-23T13:52:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T17:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=21395"},"modified":"2019-04-23T13:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T17:52:33","slug":"getting-facts-straight-on-u-s-refugee-and-asylum-policies-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/04\/23\/getting-facts-straight-on-u-s-refugee-and-asylum-policies-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Facts Straight on U.S. Refugee and Asylum Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Retired U.S. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.belfercenter.org\/publication\/why-america-matters\" target=\"_blank\">ambassador Nicholas Burns gave a lecture<\/a> on \u201cWhy America Matters\u201d at the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., on April 9, in which he traced the rise of the U.S. to a world leadership role after World War II, and what he described as the Trump administration\u2019s dismantling of that role. Unfortunately, his reasoning for his attack on the Trump administration\u2019s policies contained disinformation on current immigration policy developments which marred his message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burns said, \u201c\u2026Trump has also reversed the half-century American consensus since the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that we can afford to accept tens of thousands of legal immigrants and refugees annually.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burns based that assertion on the comment by Trump the previous week near the border with Mexico that the U.S. was \u201cfull up.\u201d That remark, in context, was clearly aimed at illegal immigration. Conflating legal immigration with illegal immigration is often a hallmark of those who favor open borders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact is that the country is still admitting tens of\nthousands of refugees despite a major reduction under the current\nadministration. In addition, we are still admitting hundreds of thousands of\nother immigrants based on our policy adopted in 1965. The administration has\nproposed changes that would change and rationalize that flow in the national\ninterest, but would still leave the door open to hundreds of thousands of\nimmigrant annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired U.S. ambassador Nicholas Burns gave a lecture on \u201cWhy America Matters\u201d at the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., on April 9, in which he traced the rise of the U.S. to a world leadership role after World War II, and what he described as the Trump administration\u2019s dismantling of that role.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/04\/23\/getting-facts-straight-on-u-s-refugee-and-asylum-policies-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":17530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[511],"tags":[912,1524,675],"yst_prominent_words":[5366,2122,5370,5369,5365,2013,2011,1980,1963,2142,3287,2095,2101,5367,5368,1946,1939,2880],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21396,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21395\/revisions\/21396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21395"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}