Amnesty International asks White House to ‘do more’ to welcome refugees, admit at least 200,000 of them this fiscal year

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Simon Ateba( Chief White House Correspondent )

Simon Ateba is Chief White House Correspondent for Today News Africa. Simon covers President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other financial and international institutions in Washington D.C. and New York City.

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Amnesty International is asking the White House to do more to welcome refugees following Biden’s proposed presidential determination to admit up to 125,000 refugees this fiscal year amid the horrific treatment of Haitian asylum-seekers at the U.S. southern border. The rights group asked the White House to admit at least 200,000 refugees this fiscal year.