Resettling refugees quickly
The domino effect caused by the conflict in Afghanistan required agencies to receive people at a scale that would have been unfathomable a year earlier. This process is not a light lift, either.
“When you resettle people, it’s not a one-day, two-day thing,” said Medard Ngueita, executive director of World Relief Seattle. “It’s months of working together. And so it is not yet over with Afghanistan.”
In May 2021, Biden quadrupled the country’s yearly refugee admissions cap to 62,500 from the 15,000 limit set by former President Donald Trump.
It takes time to build up resettlement programs, said Winkel, whose organization is increasing the size of its
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