announcing it will take in 20,000 refugees from Afghanistan. If saving lives is all we care about, we should all be advocating for taking as many refugees as possible because the ones left behind would likely suffer torture and, in extreme circumstances, death.The United States has more responsibility than any other country.
The current refugee resettlement program requires refugees to go to a safe country and then apply for our existing resettlement pathway, which is not an option for people desperate for their lives.
The Special Immigrant Visa SIV pathway has a backlog of 17,000 applicants. We can open pathways for refugees to come into the country aside from existing mechanisms.This is a systemic issue and not an individual one.