(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)The legal immigration system, to be clear, has long been broken. The 2020 fiscal year closed with about 11,800 refugees resettled in the United States; over the three decades pre-Trump, the United States averaged more than six times that figure annually. To be sure, many of the president’s immigration policy changes have already been reversed, paused or have yet to take effect. Chief among the victims is the agency that handles most of the legal immigration system: U.S. That means more than reversing the current president’s depredations; it requires something much more difficult: actually fixing the U.S. immigration system.

Source: Washington Post October 29, 2020 12:56 UTC