An American state declares not to receive refugees this year

As part of Trump's anti-immigration policy, the US state of Texas has announced that it will not receive refugees in 2020, and the U.S. administration has also reduced the number of asylum applications accepted: 18,000 for the 2020 budget that started on October 1, 2019, from 30,000 In 2018 and about 85 thousand in 2016.

Trump announced in September that he had left the option to various states to accept or reject refugees as part of a federal program to redistribute them.

Republican Governor Greg Abbott said that the state in the south must focus its funding sources on those already here, including refugees, migrants and displaced persons. In fact, all of Texas. ”

He added, Texas should also face a "heterogeneous immigration problem" with tens of thousands of immigrants who illegally crossed the border with Mexico in 2018 to seek asylum, referring to refugees whose applications had been accepted in the United States since 2010.

Abbott noted that Texas has taken more than its stake in helping the redistribution mechanism for refugees, and it is estimated that other states will be available in these efforts.

The redistribution program, created in 1980, means refugees selected by US security and intelligence agencies from United Nations camps around the world, and are primarily among the most vulnerable, such as the elderly, widows, and people with disabilities.

38 states continue to receive refugee policy. Other states have until January 21 to announce their decision in this regard.

The Democratic opposition in Texas condemned the ruling of the governor who considered Rep. Joaquín Castro to be "completely subject to intolerance and xenophobia", and is the second most populous state in the country.

In turn, the Texas Refugee Aid organization denounced the "confusion" between illegal immigration and the redistribution program.

The director of the non-governmental organization, Russell Smith, emphasized that "the accepted refugees in the United States possess legal documents, and their files have been carefully studied by the security services and are part of the population that is the most resilient, active, active and prosperous."