Senators Press State Department on Support for LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers
announced in February that it would “use a broad range of diplomatic and programmatic tools and resources to protect vulnerable LGBTQI+ refugees and asylum seekers.” The Biden administration has also raised the cap on refugee admissions from its historic low of 15,000 a year under Donald Trump, with a cap of 62,500 this fiscal year (ending September 30) and promising to admit 125,000 the following year.
Those figures are for all refugees, not LGBTQ+ ones alone.“We write to commend the State Department for taking swift action to implement President Biden’s expansive commitment to ‘pursue an end to violence and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or sex characteristics, and to lead by the power of.
