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Nominee for State Department Population, Refugees and Migration outlines 'America First' approach, faces questions on vetting and refugee priorities
Summary
The nominee for assistant secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Sept. 11 that the bureau should align programming with U.S. national interests, support voluntary repatriation where appropriate, and seek reforms to the international migration framework.
The nominee for assistant secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) testified to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Sept. 11 that the bureau should align foreign assistance with administration priorities, support voluntary remigration where appropriate, and pursue reforms to the international migration and asylum framework.
In opening remarks the nominee described recent reductions in border encounters and said the PRM should support the president’s “whole-of-government” efforts to secure borders while coordinating with Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and other partners. The nominee said past PRM programming ‘‘facilitated mass migration’’ and that future assistance should be tied to concrete U.S.…
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