President Joe Biden recently announced that, in addition to $1 billion in humanitarian aid to Europe, the United States would accept 100,000 Ukrainian refugees using the “full range of legal pathways.” Despite representing a fraction of those fleeing Ukraine, Biden’s goal would be a watershed moment if only it were possible.
Regrettably, though, this is merely a headline grabber rather than a policy grounded in reality.
Aside from the fact that the administration has not laid out any concrete plans to accomplish Biden’s commitment, America’s legal refugee framework was not built to handle emergency relief measures on such a large scale. To the extent it could have handled such numbers in the past, that’s certainly over post-Trump.
