Top progressives outraged Biden won’t raise refugee cap: ‘Unacceptable and unconscionable’

The declaration will bring back regional allocations, in effect casting a wider net of who can arrive to the US under the historically low refugee ceiling currently in place.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, reacted to the news in a statement saying, “It is simply unacceptable and unconscionable that the Biden administration is not immediately repealing Donald Trump’s harmful, xenophobic, and racist refugee cap that cruelly restricts refugee admissions to a historically low level.”

The Washington state Democrat went on to say, “By failing to sign an…