(Hill) Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday nudged President Biden to increase the number of refugees being accepted into the country, saying the United States has a moral responsibility to welcome those foreigners facing harm at home.
“We have a moral responsibility in the world — as every other country does, too — to receive refugees who have a well-founded fear of persecution or harm [if they] return to their own country,” Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol.
The message came in the context of Pelosi’s defense of the Biden administration’s response to the wave of migrants streaming to the southern border.
But her shift to focusing on refugees — a program that runs independently of the traditional immigration system — was an unsubtle message to her White House ally that the administration needs to hike the current cap on refugees, which was established by Biden’s predecessor, former President Trump.
