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The US will not meet its target for refugee admissions this fiscal year
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This is one of Vox's Future Perfect predictions for 2023; they give it an 80% probability.

President Biden has set the refugee admissions target at 125,000 for fiscal year 2023 — the same level as in 2022. I think the US will fail to hit that target for the same reasons it failed last year (when it admitted fewer than 20,000 refugees). Chief among them: The Trump administration gutted America’s resettlement infrastructure, and it still hasn’t fully recovered. Under Biden, there have been efforts to restaff the government agencies that do resettlement and reopen the offices that had been shuttered, but advocates say the rebuild has been too slow. There just doesn’t seem to be enough political will to make it a priority.

You might be wondering: What about all the Afghans, Ukrainians, and Venezuelans that the US has welcomed? Well, the thing is, those who came to the US via the legal process known as humanitarian parole only get stays of two years. They don’t count toward the number of refugees resettled as refugees are given a path to permanent residency. I hope the US will grant full refugee status to the full 125,000 it’s targeting for 2023, but sadly, I doubt that will happen.

(Vox)

Resolves according to Vox Future Perfect's judgment at the end of the year.

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This resolves YES because Vox has published their judgment, "The US will not meet its target for refugee admissions this fiscal year (80 percent) — RIGHT" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24006533/2023-predictions-revisited-trump-biden-politics