[19991206]98-668EPW_Refugee Admissions and Resettlement Policy 事实和问题.pdf

Congressional Research Service The Library of CongressCRS Report for CongressReceived through the CRS Web98-668 EPWUpdated December 6, 1999Refugee Admissions and Resettlement Policy:Facts and IssuesJoyce VialetSpecialist in Immigration PolicyDomestic Social Policy DivisionSummaryThe refugee admissions ceiling for fiscal year 2000 is 90,000, with Europeaccounting for more than half the numbers. P.L. 106-104 reauthorized the Departmentof Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement (HHS/ORR) programthrough FY2002. P.L. 106-113, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, appropriated$426.5 million for for (HHS/ORR) for FY2000. P.L. 106-113 also extended the so-called Lautenberg amendment for an additional year; and reenacted a version of theMcCain amendment, relating to Vietnamese refugees, for 2 years. The principal refugeeissue in 1999 was the emergency admission of Kosovar refugees, in what was probablythe most significant test of the flexibility of the refugee provisions since their enactmentin 1980. The United States has admitted 15,825 Kosovar Albanians from the refugeecamps in Macedonia who had close family ties here or were particularly vulnerable. TheState Department re