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Treated Like Aliens: An Analysis Of Refugee Admissions Into The United States By Preferences, Nicadamus Atkins
Treated Like Aliens: An Analysis Of Refugee Admissions Into The United States By Preferences, Nicadamus Atkins
Transformations: Research Papers
From the Refugee Act of 1980 to the present, the President has had the power to create a refugee ceiling, capping the admittance of refugees into the United States. The differential impact that Republican control of the legislative and/or the executive branches has on the admission of refugees into the United States is explored in this paper. Focusing on the refugee system, I examine Presidential political parties along with those of the House of Representatives over the course of 1986 to 2019 to determine if there is a correlation between party ideologies and refugee admission caps. Analyzing data from the …